Date: October 3rd, 2004 3:12 PM Author: up-to-no-good weed whacker
After giving the Declaration of Independence a good, close read, I realized that we've been doing this incorrectly. There are some modifications necessary, and they are outlined as follows:
1. The olde-English "s" *can* be used at the beginning of a word. In fact, this seems like the common, but not required, usage.
2. When a double "s" appears, the first "s" is always written in olde-English style, and the second "s" never is.
3. As always, an olde-English "s" can never be used at the end of a word, or in place of a capital "S". Also, individual "s"'s in the middle of a word are, as always, discretionary.
So, the following sentence is correct, with the third "s" in "Massachusetts", the first "s" in "colonists", the "s" in "against," and the "s" in "Jefferson" being discretionary, and the "s" in "statement" written in its common, but not required, form:
"Stupidly, the colonifts in Mafsachufetts ifsued a ftatement againft Thomas Jefferfon."
Date: April 3rd, 2007 8:29 PM Author: Unhinged topaz idiot
Excellent and well-timed bump. This board is declining quickly. I fear the poors and other unpreftigious people are being drawn here, what with all the recent media attention.
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Ten and five, morning. May 31ft, 2007.
Returned from a Meeting with Mefsrs [partner] and [associate], dined on breakfaft, and vifited &c. This is when I acquired my firft Knowledge of juft how many Attorneys perufe this Site.
Once I have ridden the Elevator from the 19th floor Meeting Quarters near Eight Bells, I fhall update you on the Plight of a fellow Summer Afsociates. We are all well but one, who is more hyfterical than any ancient Maiden, in the Gout. An Hiftory of his Oddities, would be a Curiofity. -- But the Man is no Danger, his fmall Pox is all gone.
But no Valediction can portray the general Melancholia I pofsefs. WBA, you are mifsed!!
Date: June 19th, 2007 9:52 PM Author: hyperactive kitty theatre
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