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Since this is international nit-pick week.....

In <9204311.8562@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> richard@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Richard Hagen) writes:

>Noone is *involved* in this ``alternate'' history. It's something that
>is always happened to someone else. And that someone else doesn't
>happen to get a part in this book. None of the characters has any real
>motivation, they just *wander around so the scenery may be described*.
>Characters are only distinguishable from each other by the gender of
>the pronoun references and whether they speak in ``Cor Blimey'' or
>``Queen's English''.

>To make digestion even more difficult, the whole book is written with
>Yank spelling. So we get such abominations as someone being described
>as a ``traveling-gent''.  Authentic, eh?

Well, is bad english better than none at all? This mysterious person "Noone"
seems to be rearing their ugly head a lot lately. And it is driving me
up the proverbial. There is no such word as "noone". If you wish for an
alternative expression for "nobody", please, *please*, try "no one".
Not a specific flame for you, Richard. I'd just like to know what happened
to the spacebar... Perhaps a buggy newsreader? 

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Martin J. Gleeson   | Computer Science, Melbourne Uni, Oz |    ...  __o    Outta
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"Heard noone on the radio late last night....             |  ....(_)/(_)..  way!
       Said He's gonna kick the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight....
              I... I believe in Love."  U2 - "God Part II"