Xref: utzoo alt.flame:11798 news.misc:3767 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc Subject: Re: People who only look at spelling!!!! Message-ID: <14829@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:09:22 GMT References: <4487@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Followup-To: alt.flame Distribution: usa Lines: 21 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Welllll, it's an unfortunate fact of life these days that "illiterates are people too," and the Net must accomodate quite a few rocket scientist illiterates within its copious skirts. Face it, the people with Net access weren't usually hired for their penmanship or spelling. Nothing to be done; the only thing generally agreed on is that reaming people out for it just makes things more unpleasant all round. Good grammar and spelling are nice things to have; but not quite so nice when we act like prigs about it and scorn those less accomplished. If you have ever seen original MSS by famous authors, you know misspellings are rife. Our role models had the luxury of hard working editors to clean up their product; today's electronic immediacy wipes that out. The only advice I would give posters is to try and READ what you wrote before finally posting it! Nevah hoit! -- "Of course, this is a, this is a Hunt, you | Tom Neff will -- that will uncover a lot of things. | tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot of things... This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves." -- RN 6/23/72