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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208130243.44931.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813010816.265f6589@khamul.example.com>

On Monday 13 August 2012 00:08:16 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:52:32 +0200
> 
> Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing
> > > > active
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------^
> > *cough* *wink wink*
> 
> damn, I got that one the wrong way round. again.

It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". 
The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.

Hmm. Maybe it isn't so simple after all if you don't know it. It just 
seems simple to me since it's what I was taught 60-odd years ago and 
it's stuck.

It seems to me that most people (especially those not of these shores) 
use "it's" in every case, just in case. If you see what I mean.

-- 
Rgds
Peter


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12  0:09 [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  1:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  1:41   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  2:28     ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  3:10       ` Dale
2012-08-13  9:18         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-13 11:21           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-12  9:47 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-12 10:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-12 13:31     ` Mick
2012-08-12 22:52       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 23:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13  1:43           ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2012-08-13  8:03             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 17:43               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-14  0:16               ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2012-08-14  7:32                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-12 23:14         ` Dale
2012-08-13 17:46           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:31             ` Mick
2012-08-12 18:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-12 19:34   ` Mick
2012-08-12 20:06     ` Michael Mol

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