Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.tv Subject: Proper English Usage during Nuclear War Message-ID: <332@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sun, 20-Nov-83 23:48:58 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.332 Posted: Sun Nov 20 23:48:58 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Nov-83 02:19:28 EST Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 13 As the credits rolled at the end of "The Day After", I was horrified to spy the following line--luckily I could verify this, since I taped it: "In it's (sic) presentation, ABC has taken no position as to how such an event may be initiated or avoided." I guess that in the nuclear debate (if not in war itself) proper usage is the first to go ... -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca