Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!duke!phs!ags@pucc-k From: ags%pucc-k@phs.UUCP (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.tv Subject: Re: Proper English Usage during Nuclear War Message-ID: <118@pucc-k.UUCP> Date: Tue, 22-Nov-83 15:48:53 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.118 Posted: Tue Nov 22 15:48:53 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Nov-83 03:29:00 EST Lines: 14 References: <332@bbncca.ARPA> Relay-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Posting-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path:duke!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ags Message-ID:<118@pucc-k> Date:Tue, 22-Nov-83 15:48:53 EST Organization:Purdue University Computing Center I also noticed ABC's improper use of "it's" (for "belonging to it") in their closing credits for "The Day After". I noticed the same usage several months ago (in quarter-inch-high letters) in a full-page magazine ad for a Radio Shack TRS-80. Dave Seaman