Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:8233 From: Elliott Oti Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djgpp/allegro - help! - quick question Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 10:16:22 -0700 Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, (ACCU) Lines: 16 Message-ID: <322C67E6.4411@stud.warande.ruu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: warande1078.warande.ruu.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Mark Habersack wrote: >> > >You're right of course. But I say that that extra 'e' on the end is > >overrated! Nobody pronounces it, and it doesn't even change the word's > >pronoununciatiation. I say we start a campaign to get rid of all those > >useless e's on the end of words, starting with PALLET(E). All in favor? > > > >:-) <-- for those who missed the sarcasm of this post > And what about those theater/theatre, center/centre, colour/color differences? > Let us agree upon which one should we use here ;-)))) And programme/program, > optimisation/optimization? ;-))))) > > Mark Good idea! And while we're at it let's throw away all these useless " ; " signs at the ends of statements in C programs -- no-one pronounces them either.