[BRLTTY] Fw: Contraction error: be -

[Lee Maschmeyer]

> ----- Forwarded message from Lee Maschmeyer <leemer1 at comcast.net> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:04:29 -0500
> From: Lee Maschmeyer <leemer1 at comcast.net>
> To: Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>
> Subject: Contraction error: be - 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> When the word "be" is followed immediately by two hyphens, it is
> spelled out. But when it's followed by a space hyphen space, the
> hyphen is properly expanded into two hyphens with no spaces but the
> "be" is not spelled out. observe:
> 
> Let me be--let me be.
> 
> Let me be - let me be.
> 
> I doubt you need examples of which of these forms is correct, but here
> are some anyway:
> 
> 6recon/ruct :at k9d ( fell{ he m/ be--
> 3sid}$ :at a diabolical w1pon t c be--
> a jolly si<t x wd be--all ! hi<
> 4>m$--or suppos$ 6be--= "!'s / a gd
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> -- 
> 
> Lee Maschmeyer
> 
> "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
> to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
> what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
>     --Lewis Carroll