From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!advisor Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Spelling and Grammar Article-I.D.: utcsstat.418 Posted: Thu Nov 18 20:46:52 1982 Received: Fri Nov 19 00:25:18 1982 References: sdcsvax.2455 hese machines, not tire my fingers. Many a time I will leave out apostrophes, or shorten words like 'are' to 'r', etc., and skip 'unnecessary' words -- this does not detract from the understandability of my messages, but, rather, makes them easier to type. By the way, 'writing' is incorrectly spelled in your message. scott owen utcsstat!advisor