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Date: | Mon, 19 Feb 1996 01:49:28 -0600 |
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I cannot believe the seriousness of now two posts concerning the spelling
of one person's post. If I remember correctly, the "offender" of the
pernicious spelling mistake was writing to us all from Finland. The last
time I checked, English was not the #1 language in Finland, so it's a
pretty good assumption that the writer may not speak English as a native
tounge. Would the two posters assaulting the misspeller be able to spell
(not to mention identify) the Finnish word for "permuation"? Would these
posters express similar disdain for a foreign guest lecturer who
mispronounced words? I thought this type of personal attack was not
permitted on this list!
Anyway, why don't you people respond to ideas of a post, instead of taking
pot-shots at someone's spelling? I don't have the time to run all of my
emails through a spell checker and I don't consider the email format as a
medium that requires carefully planned rhetoric style and form. If you do,
practice what you preach and cut everyone else some slack!
> . . . i'm afraid that in their rhetorical stance some of the messages on this
>and similar lists resemble nothing so much as cartoonish placards annopuncing
>that the world is coming to an end . . . i hope that few of us take time to
>debate such claims seriously
Annopuncing?
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