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Indian Rocket Blasts into Space
Quacking Duck writes "Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched it's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) rocket from the Srikharikota launch-pad. The rocket carried 4 satellites into space, 2 Indian and one each from Argentina and Indonesia. Interestingly, one of ISRO's payloads, Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), expected to return to Earth 13 days after launch, will be the first test of its re-entry mechanism. This is a step towards ISRO's ambitious goal of designing and building a cheap reusable launch vehicle. ISRO is also planning a manned mission to the moon, Chandrayan-1, which is expected to use a modified PSLV rocket which was used for this launch. This successful launch comes close on the heels of the failed July 2006 GSLV lauch which had ended in an expensive fireworks display over the Bay of Bengal. Another GSLV launch is planned for later this year."
I would very much be loving a curry thank you punjabba punjabba
If you are about to write IT'S, ask yourself "IS IT 'IT IS'" ?
If it's not IT IS, then it's ITS.
Think: HIS HERS ITS.
not HI'S HER'S IT'S.
Otherwise you look like an idiot.
Crap, I misread the title, sorry :/
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Swing your dick at any false normalities of education versus results and all we get from your post is that:
1) You wasted your education studying linguistic semantics; if you went to Ivy, chances are you wasted a lot more than mere time on you part, and that money could have gone to real academic endeavors like...science.
2) You are an asshole and have no valid contribution to science other than yammering about sentence structure and grammar; things scientists don't give a fuck about because any reasonable human being can pull an idea out of a hat and see the idea for what it is, gram crackers and spelking aside and felch fests that assholes like you tend to dwell on spppellleing and irreleyvant shit, it's the idea, and not the delivery.
That's the most agressive agreement with someone i've ever seen.
Stupid people think it's cool. Smart people thinks it's a joke; also cool.
How hard is it to come up with a non-sensationalist non-deceptive title?
Blast as in London bomb blast or Blast as in blast furnace?
>It's the idea, not the delivery
But if the delivery isn't clear because the author can't construct a meaningful sentence, the idea is kind of lost.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Invoking Godwin's Law on your first response?
No stamina to give it a full run?
You aren't sorry, so why make the claim?
Besides, using his, hers, etc. has nothing to do with contractions. Why include the naff? "It's" is a contraction. Period. That means "its" must be the correct for possession. Everything else, specificallyyou said may be true on the surface, but not germane as the issue is an apostrophe, not involving other pronouns. It's an exception. People can't remember a simple exception in this particular piece of the written language but have no problem with exceptions in coding syntax?
That's twisted.
I will admit it's probably worse than the Greengrocer's apostrophe.
Besides, it was in the posted text. The submittor may be uninformed, but the editorial board should know better by now. If all they do is press a button to post it and don't actually look at it first (or changed it to make it wrong), then approval is a dunsel action and should be removed.
If the load of wading through too many articles overwhelms them and they can't handle it, then why not campaign and nominate yourself? After all, someone in possession of sophisticated skill and knowledge can easily make it right.
(Your over analysis might slow you down.)
But if the delivery isn't clear because the author can't construct a meaningful sentence, the idea is kind of lost.
You have a not with idea to speak. So don't.
Yes. My father was in at least one of the battles of Cable Street (there were several). An amazing number of Londoners of that generation go a bit misty eyed over their days throwing bricks at Fasicsts. We seem to have lost the art of political protest in this country.
Pining for the fjords
Whether it's okay to be pedantic about grammar or not, your analysis is flawed. There is no justification in English for forming possessive pronouns with an apostrophe. You are arguing to make "it" the lone exception to this rule by extrapolating a pattern from a different class of words. While tempting and perhaps even natural, it does not stand up to a basic examination of the underlying pronoun grammar.
I'll reinforce the point someone else made: even if it's excusable for the submitter to make the error, an editor should have caught & corrected it - it's what they're there for.
At the bottom of the
that money could have gone to real academic endeavors like...science.
Ah, you mean the stuff you wanted to study but couldn't, because you're too stupid and couldn't even graduate from High School?
You are an asshole and have no valid contribution to science
While your contribution is sweeping floors and cleaning toilets at the local tech college?
. . . enters the space age.
Say what you will about empire, but the Brits have left a lasting legacy of freedom and progress for mankind.
Now if they could only learn how to make a decent cup of coffee.
What?
Uh, no. Spelling matters in science. If you don't believe me, go ahead and freely interchange nitrates and nitrites and see how well that turns out.
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Yes, and of course compilers don't care about syntax; there's all that flexibility and no arbitrary rule at all.
It's all about what you care about. Care about things? You get code syntax right. Care about people, and making yourself understood? You spend a half a freakin' hour figuring out the difference between "its" and "it's".
Now shut the fuck up about elitist this and "wah wah wah I can't learn the parts of speech." Go back to thumbing "ru hawt?" on your fucking cellphone.