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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Flame on net posters' English - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 22:48:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 22:48:17 1983
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parsec!holt    Dec 16 11:44:00 1983

>  Please note also that successful passage through spell is neither sufficient
>  nor necessary; one of the signs of the automated illiterate is the correctly
>  spelled but wrong word. (there/their, its/it's, loose/lose, etc.)
>  ...
>				James Jones

	And to think that I always thought "illiterate" meant a person 
couldn't read or write.  In fact, I just looked it up in the dictionary, and
discovered that's exactly what it means.  I guess that James Jones is an
"automated illiterate" according to his own definition.

	Come on people, it doesn't matter if a word or two is misspelled,
what matters is the idea that is communicated.


				Dave Holt
				{allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs}!parsec!holt