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Lack of understanding of hillbillys...

 

"Simply write the book" would require copying the entire work. ;-)

You meant "Simply give the title of the book, magazine or article."

 

"Simply write the book and author's name at the end of your post", is easily understood to mean write the name of the book and the name of the author. No need for you to go nuclear pedantic.

 

LOL, that reminds me of a similar situation!

As a software architect/engineer I worked off and on as a contractor at a now defunct computer manufacturing plant in Augusta Maine.

I was hired on as a contractor to upgrade several software applications by recompiling them with the latest COBOL compiler. This usually results in compiler errors which require text corrections.

One of the newer managers balked saying "I don't think Hank is competent enough for the task, this software has not failed yet and I don't want him touching it, get someone else".

She managed the programmers for the mainframe computer scheduling software.

The plant manager said "Hank, I want you to tell her".

You guessed it. I had designed, written and installed the package 7 years earlier

Like your student she graciously and humbly apologized (but not publicly).

HankD

 

But he did not say that.

“And the end of your post." Hmm...

You meant "at the end of your post."

But it's still sloppy English.

 

People who write there instead of their, there instead of they're and vice versa

 

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