Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!chaph.usc.edu!vet.vet.purdue.edu!goehring From: goehring@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Firefoot) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.flame.spelling Subject: Re: ET's and a Lunar Mission Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 90 07:36:48 GMT References: <2397.26776591@cc.nu.oz> <1123@manta.NOSC.MIL> <90165.145032GAB100@psuvm.psu.edu> <137337@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <22344@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <60@apex.UUCP> Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu Followup-To: alt.flame.spelling Organization: MUDaholics Anonymous Lines: 37 In-reply-to: randyp@apex.UUCP's message of 19 Jun 90 16:24:46 GMT In article <60@apex.UUCP> randyp@apex.UUCP (Randy Perretta) writes: Doesn't anybody in netland speak the native tongue anymore? Commas don't exist. Spelling and grammer are out. Every line quoted above contains ^^^^^^^ Apparently you're right about spelling being out. "Grammar" has never been spelled with an "e". Even my spelling checker (which I almost never use) tells me it's spelled wrong with an "e". at least one mistake. I don't mean to pick on the above sender alone. A glance at any of the comp. newsgroups will display a litany of bright folks who have only a meager ability to express themselves. As a reader of news for many years, I worry that those who warn of an education gap between the U.S. and other nations are right. The news connects the best and brightest of our society and yet they cannot express themselves in the simplest fashion. Why post this to the shuttle group? This one was just too flagrant to let pass. I rarely post to any group so go ahead and flame at will and I won't turn it into a boring thread. I'd be happy to read any comments sent to me. Please, if you are going to flame spelling, make absolutely positively sure you spell your article correctly. Otherwise you look rather hypocritical at best. #ifdef sci.space.shuttle We now return you to your regularly scheduled babblings. Followups directed to alt.flame.spelling. #endif -- Help stamp out vi in our lifetime! Firefoot (Warrant) goehring@vet.vet.purdue.edu (a.k.a. Scott Goehring) ...!purdue!vet!goehring