Why aren't colons optional?

[Michael Kelly]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 04:05:07 GMT, Courageous <jkraska at san.rr.com>
wrote:

>>Possessive "its" doesn't have an apostrophe, man.
>
>True enough, but it was a typo. :)

Hmmmm, maybe the next "killer app" would be an enhanced
spell-checker with options to flag ambiguities.  When I'm typing
I always hear the words so I tend to find a lot of unintended
homophones in what I post.  They pass through the speller
just fine though. :)


Mike

--

"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
    -- Groucho Marx