[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/18/2011 6:53 PM, AEF wrote:
> On Dec 18, 11:26 am, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
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>> On 12/18/2011 8:53 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:13:31 -0800, Alan Feldman wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 17, 7:08 am, Paul Sture<p... at sture.ch>    wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:23:02 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:
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>>>>>> <d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7... at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>>> AEF<spamsink2... at yahoo.com>    writes:
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>>>>>>> Merriam Webster.
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>>>>>>> Why not?
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>>>>>>> What would you recommend?
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>>>>>>      And even M-W is wrong sometimes.
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>>>>> A decade or more ago I found so many errors in the online version of
>>>>> M-W that I didn't trust it.  That does seem to have improved since.
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>>>> Can you please give some examples?
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>>>> Thanks!
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>>> Eh? More than a decade on? :-)
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>>> I am pretty sure that we discussed the difference between "assure" and
>>> "insure" right here on comp.os.vms.  Their pronunciation of "nuclear" was
>>> a bit suspect too :-)
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>> There are still people who pronounce it as "nucular"!!  I try to avoid
>> them!  Trying to change them is hopeless!
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> It *does* sound pretty awful.
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> But it's getting worse. People are saying things like: "I should have
> did that." And many say "lay" when they mean "lie," though that's been
> a slowly growing problem for a much longer period of time.
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> AEF

I once overheard an adult white male say "Her and Bruce went to a movie" 
!!!!

He undoubtedly learned that at home and nothing will change his speech 
patterns.  It will mark him as "poorly educated" and cost him dearly!