… In the U.S., for instance, the latest government census data indicates approximately a quarter of a million remaining dial-up holdouts.
One of the natural successors for internet connectivity in hard-to-reach places is satellite, with around eight million subscribers in the U.S. …
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...and a similar disparity in cost.
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That's not what I wanted, hew-man!
I thought we all had a collective and unsaid agreement not to talk about this one
Statute of limitations ran out.
AOL... America Offline
FFS will people ever use "it's" and "its" correctly ?
Look, just because your one of the people who understands it, doesn’t mean their one of the ones who do.
I would of got it right
wood have
Sigh
Eye twitch at intentionally wrong use of they're/their/there
Your instead of you're.
Also that
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It's not are fault, it's the school's!
"Could of" and similar phonetic replacements making no sense whatsoever irritate me more.
Here at least the logic is arbitrary, "Anna's apartment" and "school's leadership" vs "Anna's waiting" and "school's empty", but "its tail" vs "it's cold".
OK, I'm not a native speaker as it may be clear.
Fwiw, the logic is, "its" isn't quite the equivalent of "Anna's" or "school's."
Rather it's the equivalent of "his," "hers," and "theirs." Also "mine" but that's just irregular af. In other words, possessive pronouns don't take an apostrophe while possessive nouns do.
It's not a LOT of logic, a pretty shaky ladder, but there it is. 0
(Oh, and for both nouns and pronouns, position in the sentence makes a difference whether to use a contraction at all, or go with the separate "is." But that's a horse of a different color!)
The one that kills me is the positive use of "anymore," which I've come to learn is colloquial to Northern Ireland and the midwest US, but good lord it just doesn't sound right when people say stuff like "everybody's cool anymore" instead of "everybody's cool now." For some reason I felt like it was becoming more common but now I'm thinking it might just be my exposure to midwest.social.
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My autocorrect always tries to correct "its" to it's" no matter the context
Same. But that shouldn't be a factor in a professional publication.
Yeah its so annoying when someone uses the wrong one
Oh you.
First, could be autocorrect, and second: How many languages do you speak FFS?
After it is debut?
Ahh, I had the older "stylophone" style sportster. 28.8k. I think I have 2 really old miracom couriers somewhere, inherited from when my old office closed down. Actually I might even have an IBM RS6000/220 from the same shutdown at my parent's house.
Well that went off on a tangent.
No more free AOL disks? AWWWW
Ah the USR sportster. An ubiquitous workhorse of the early '90s
What?