Posted by rf on 07/10/07 03:09

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-ADA6E5.12420710072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <zCBki.5343$4A1.1083@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
>> news:a79bd$4692e055$40cba7c2$18752@NAXS.COM...
>> > dorayme wrote:
>> >> In article <slrnf95kfi.me5.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>> >> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> "there". "their" is a possessive, as in "it's their new car".
>> >>
>> >> You sure about this?
>> >>
>> > Yup. *it's* contraction of *it is* and *their* is the possessive form
>> > of
>> > *they*. Seems correct to me.
>>
>> Perhaps dorayme is thinking about the third flavour, as in:
>>
>> It's there, their new car, _they're_ about to open its doors. There, it's
>> done, its doors're open.
>
> Now this is getting closer.
>
> Blinkey's was a lesson (see his "as in") on the use of the
> apostrophe using a contraction example rather than one of
> possession.

What?

> (rf, a couple of things, one of them a 'btw', making it hard to
> know whether to use a <ul>, an <ol> or neither (what do the standards
> say?):


I would lean for <ul> The two items are totally unrelated to each other so,
unordered. Ordered seems to imply a sequence that would not make sense if
the "order" were to be changed.

1. Open care door.
2. Enter car.
3. Drive off to the tennis.

Change the order and the list does not usually make sense.

However, one can watch tennis without any specific requirement to have the
door open, or not. The items can occur in any order, as in:

Open the home theatre door,
Watch the tennis.

Watch the tennis, while we...
Open the fridge door for another tinnie.

> <ul><li>"doors're open"?</li>

What?

Its doors are open.

<li>Watch the
> tennis the other night?</li></ul>

s/night/nights
Of course. When it wasn't raining. Bloody phoms. Why do they hold Wimbledon
in the rainy season. Just like those damn Americans. They hold their
Christmas in the middle of winter when every airport in the country is
snowed in. Happened to us a couple of years ago. Had to dig out the barbie
and the beers nearly froze :-(

--
Richard.

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