sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (11/21/83)
As the credits rolled at the end of "The Day After", I was horrified to spy the following line--luckily I could verify this, since I taped it: "In it's (sic) presentation, ABC has taken no position as to how such an event may be initiated or avoided." I guess that in the nuclear debate (if not in war itself) proper usage is the first to go ... -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca
ags%pucc-k@phs.UUCP (Seaman) (11/22/83)
References: <332@bbncca.ARPA> Relay-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Posting-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path:duke!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ags Message-ID:<118@pucc-k> Date:Tue, 22-Nov-83 15:48:53 EST Organization:Purdue University Computing Center I also noticed ABC's improper use of "it's" (for "belonging to it") in their closing credits for "The Day After". I noticed the same usage several months ago (in quarter-inch-high letters) in a full-page magazine ad for a Radio Shack TRS-80. Dave Seaman