Flextel email ~ what do I do?

"jaakson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I an email from Flextel of their latest news release.
>
> This is the text: http://www.flextel.co.uk/press/news.html
>
> What am I supposed to do?

Do you have an adult to ask, or do you turn to a newsgroup each time
a decision is to be made? No wonder there are so many helpless, useless
people in this country that demand everyone else thinks for them.

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On Sat 17 May 2008 10:33:28, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Tim Clark" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> The problem of confusing singular/plural and their possessive
>> forms is no longer confined to just greengrocers. Unfortunately,
>> it is no longer considered important. So when Flextel write
>> seeking help from their customer, one is no longer expected to
>> take what they say at face value, and wonder why they only have
>> one customer. Instead the reader is meant to be concentrating on
>> any flashy surrounding graphics. The recipients of these
>> communications are expected to be as illiterate as the sender.
>> Pretty pictures are therefore considered far more important in
>> any announcement.
>
> I wonder if schools even bother teaching this anymore?
>
> I think the plural possessive trailing apostropie is now so
> rarely used correctly that a significant proportion of
> readers who notice it would think it was a typing error. I
> do still instinctively use it, but I then find myself doing a
> double take on what I've written, and asking myself if that
> apostrophie is likely to help most of my readership comprehend
> the sentence, and deciding it probably doesn't. On that basis,
> I reluctantly suspect it's a piece of punctuation best left
> behind in the 20th century.
>

I think the sweetest error is to use "asterix" for "asterisk".

On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:47:50 UTC, Larousse <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the sweetest error is to use "asterix" for "asterisk".

Yes, I love that one. They'll be saying that Cleopatra's Needle is an
obelix next...

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Rob wrote:
> Do you have an adult to ask, or do you turn to a newsgroup each time
> a decision is to be made? No wonder there are so many helpless, useless
> people in this country that demand everyone else thinks for them.
>

You are not a very good troll, are you Tiscali Idiot?!

--
Adrian C

jaakson wrote:

> Who else apart from Flextel and YAC are providing free portable numbers
> but at less cost for callers?

viop.co.uk, sipgate.co.uk - not intended as portable numbers, of course.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> I wonder if schools even bother teaching this anymore?

Very definitely, some do. The literacy hour had a huge impact on some
schools, and the results are now beginning to reach school leaving age.
Children leaving school able to write grammatically correct English -
something we've not seen for decades!

In message <[email protected]>, Andrew Gabriel
<[email protected]> writes
>
>I think the plural possessive trailing apostropie is now so
>rarely used correctly that a significant proportion of
>readers who notice it would think it was a typing error. I
>do still instinctively use it, but I then find myself doing a
>double take on what I've written, and asking myself if that
>apostrophie is likely to help most of my readership comprehend
>the sentence, and deciding it probably doesn't. On that basis,
>I reluctantly suspect it's a piece of punctuation best left
>behind in the 20th century.

1.
So, are the following best left behind?
"The parents' intentions for their children to have a good education..."
"The voters' opinions were clear in the election results."

2.
Each of the above sentences contains an apostrophe, not an apostropie or
an apostrophie.
(Yes, I know, nothing to do with telecomms.)
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Oliver
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be discarded}.