[Sigia-l] [Iai-Members] IA Summit 2010 Call for Proposals

Richard Hill rhill at asis.org
Fri Aug 28 09:07:20 EDT 2009


Grant, former grammar teacher being invoked.

"It's" = contraction of "it is."

Expands to: "We must measure what we make to understand it is success."

Could add it is _a_ success or make it "it is successful."

Dick

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Campbell [mailto:gcampbel at uwo.ca]
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:09 AM
> To: Richard Hill
> Cc: sigia-l at asis.org; iai-members at lists.iainstitute.org; discuss at ixda.org
> Subject: Re: [Iai-Members] IA Summit 2010 Call for Proposals
> 
> Quoting from the IA Summit 2010 Call for Proposals:
> 
> "We must measure what we make to understand it's success."
> 
> Truer words were never spoken.
> 
> But the possessive is "its" , not "it's" !
> 
> Having just sabotaged any chance of presenting at the conference, I'll
> retire into my corner again!
> 
> Grant
> 
> 
> -------------------
> D. Grant Campbell
> Associate Professor
> Faculty of Information and Media Studies
> University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario
> N6A 5B7
> 519-661-2111 ext.88483




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