[Gllug] Perl, the dogs nadgers?

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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Alex Hudson gibbered:
>                                                        If your going to
> write that in anything you send to me, make sure you're wearing you're
> flame-pants.... :P

Look out. You got one of them *right*. ;)

>> > The use of apostrophe is old English, as in "John's donkey" was originally
>> 
>> You'd be wrong; this is a persistent urban legend --- or, rather, a
>> misinterpretation dating from the 16th century
> 
> Depends which way you see it, I suppose - kind of chicken and egg. It's
> use did come about as a shortened version of .. his, but the people that
> used it originally were wrong to do so :)

Languages. Random chaos and stupidity rules all... :)

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