[dba-VB] CodePlex Northwind.NET - Welcome, Mission Statement and Roadmap sections added to home page

Yes, Arthur, Em-Dash - I have made correction on northwind.codeplex.com

Yes, using "the" is an issue here, I know - thank you for your editing.

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Shamil

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:05:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [dba-VB] CodePlex Northwind.NET - Welcome, Mission Statement and Roadmap sections added to home page

> I typed in two dashes when I actually meant what is called in English an Em
> dash. In Word, you can type in an Em dash by pressing Ctrl+dash. It is
> intended to be a longer dash than the minus sign gives you. Feel free to
> correct this if you can.
> 
> That's an excellent use of ellipsis.
> 
> I didn't mean to trod upon your English, which is quite excellent. But
> occasionally you forget things such as "the", which I find interesting from
> a linguistics point of view. (I read Noam Chomsky from the beginnings in
> transformational grammar and his devastating assault on B.F. Skinner's
> Behaviorism, and continue to read him to this day. He has got to rank as one
> of the greatest intellectuals of his era, IMO.)
> 
> "The" is a particularly pointless word in the English language. Its only
> purpose seems to be to distinguish the context from "a" and "an", which
> imply multiple instances of said object. However, in no matter how pointless
> the word, its absence seems strange in English, which is why I added it to a
> couple of your sentences.
> 
> Arthur
> 
>