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6/12/2007 6:36 PM
 

Hello All DNN Documentation people.

Apologies in advance for straight-talking.

Can you please take care to use its and it's correctly?  It does label you up as literate or illiterate depending on whether you get this right.

That belonging to it you should express as its.  It never takes an appostrophe.

A shorter form of the phrase "it is" should be expressed as  it's. The apostrophe marks a point at which a letter has been omitted.

If you don't know which one to use, leave out the appostrophe altogether.  The sin of omission is almost forgivable, whereas adding in the incorrect appostrophe is seen as a vain effort to show that you are making a half-hearted attempt to cope with something you obviously have failed to understand.

It isn't dfficult.  Why persist in getting it wrong and looking ignorant?

You will find this error occurring frequently in DNN docs.  It's an own-goal every time.

Cheers

Dave

 
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6/13/2007 4:00 PM
 

We have docs?  And the docs apostrophes are not right?  Then the doc's a problem and should be fixed!  If it's not logged in Gemini it should be!

~ It's also not difficult to spell "d-i-f-f-i-c-u-l-t" or "a-p-o-s-t-r-o-p-h-e"


Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly... what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 
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6/13/2007 4:45 PM
 

swillhite (mrswoop) wrote

~ It's also not difficult to spell "d-i-f-f-i-c-u-l-t" or "a-p-o-s-t-r-o-p-h-e"

I love the smell of irony in the morning. 

Instant classic: "It isn't dfficult.  Why persist in getting it wrong and looking ignorant?" 

 
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6/13/2007 5:37 PM
 

Funny stuff.

I know I always get those darn apostrophe's mixed up so I appreciate the lesson.


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6/13/2007 6:05 PM
 

All joking aside... proofreading is helpful and those items really could be logged in Gemini.  Alternatively, pretty much every project could use all the documentation assistance that anyone would like to contribute!

Cheers


Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly... what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 
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