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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
• The contraction of "it is" is: "it's," not "its."
• Most pluralization requires simply an "s"; the apostrophe is both unnecessary and incorrect.
You're a writer; you should know this. The first few times looked like negligence.; the rest of the manuscript looks like ignorance.
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can't forget the other one:
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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