McGillivray, Don [IT]
Donald.A.McGillivray at sprint.com
Mon Dec 10 16:04:50 CST 2007
Arthur, You're my hero. But where's the rant about "then" for "than"? "There" for "their" for "they're"? I swear, its more then I can take. Their, now I've got it out of my system. I gotta go . . . :o) -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:34 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access 2007 - Microsoft is just plain stupid. Speaking of rants, it irritates the hail out of me when people incorrectly use "it's" when they intended "its". There is a very simple rule here: "it's" is a contraction of "it is", as in "it's raining cats and dogs and there are poodles all over." "Its", on the other hand, is a possessive pronoun of neutral gender, as in "Despite its intentions, China was unable to confine its populace to having merely one child per family." That said, I do find your essay on encryption and the lack thereof interesting. As it happens, I am taking a course on Techniques of Encryption now. The last time I did anything meaningful in this area was pre-DES, so I have a fair amount of catching up to do. A. On 12/10/07, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote: > > Of course, if I found a laptop, I would return it to it's owner... -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com