faithingrace
War Child
CSPAN is running today's conference. It is currently 8:34 pm pacific time 1-28-05. Turn off the Apprentice and turn on CSPAN.
verte76 said:Your own personal Bono clone.
U2Kitten said:Stills for those of us with no cable?
alibee said:"Bono, Musician, DATA (Debt, AIDS and Trade in Africa), United Kingdom"
Can they never get this right? IRELAND.
faithingrace said:
Not to sound too teacherish but isn't Ireland officially part of the UK?
kellyahern said:
Queen Bee made some stills in this thead
http://forum.interference.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=110918&pagenumber=6
ramblin rose said:
No. Northern Ireland is. Ireland is an independently country and is part of the European Union. Bono is from Ireland.
U2Kitten said:
Yeah this kind of mistake by a public news source giving info to the masses is a disgrace, and a pet peeve of mine. How can the uninformed ever learn correctly if the officials can't get it right? I remember once on CNN they were discussing Australia and put a graphic of the AUSTRIAN flag in the background
Also on this subject is the recent proliferation of functional illiteracy into business printouts such as the error of using an apostrophe when it should be plural
example: car's for sale!
NO, it's cars, it's plural, the apostrophe would denote OWNERSHIP such as the car's tires are new
I was in a store once and somebody printed out a sign that said CAKE MIX'S $1! Argh! It's supposed to be CAKE MIXES, and no apostrophe!! It has sadly become a common mistake in recent years but when businesses use it in printouts people won't even know it's wrong
The 's means BELONGING TO, not that there are more than one, that should just be adding an s with no apostrophe.
Such as:
The cats are eating their food. (NO APOSTROPHE just add s to make it plural)
The cat's tail is fluffy (APOSTROPHE denotes ownership)
The only other time an ' should be used is in words that are contractions, like don't, shouldn't, they're, etc.
Okay English lesson over.
Lisa71 said:I just caught this program. It's quite impressive that he is the company of the world leaders on that stage. It's amazing the respect he is given and that he gives. I love the way he talks about the issue. It's from the heart and that's what people see