Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!

[Gabriele <gaby@ratconference.com>]

oh noooooooooo, not again!


At 10:23 PM 1/17/00 EST, you wrote:
>This is a public service message.
>
>One does not make a plural by adding "'s" to a noun.
>
>"8 hour's in an airplane hangar in Copenhagen" should be "8 hours"
>"The Boy's Next Door" is really "The Boys Next Door"
>"The Karamazov's doing their Mexican Cabaret piece" should be "The
Karamazovs"
>
>I am pointing this out in one message, and I don't mean to be cranky.  But 
>this is becoming common in a lot of messages online, and when the same error 
>is repeated and repeated it begins to have the appearance of being correct.  
>(On a bigger stage, in Hitler's Germany they called this "the big lie.")
>
>I strongly believe that part of our job in the theatre is to be accurate 
>reporters.  We lose credibility if our reporting is plagued with low-level 
>errors.
>
>This is not to debate the list that was posted.  Some of that stuff was 
>wonderful, and I envy the person who saw all of it.
>
>But I think it's important to maintain rigor even in casual communications.  
>Art needs precision, and so discussion of art.
>
>Jeff
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