Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Flame on net posters' English - (nf) Message-ID: <4572@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 23:00:36 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.4572 Posted: Fri Dec 16 23:00:36 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Dec-83 06:14:27 EST Lines: 29 #R:isrnix:17600008:uokvax:2200016:000:1381 uokvax!emjej Dec 16 00:15:00 1983 Re grammar: hear, hear; well spoken (written?), Mr. Pratt! Grammar most certainly *does* affect (yet another bugaboo of the illiterate, BTW) one's impression of the speaker/writer. One can't help wondering whether an author takes as much care with his logic and facts as he does his grammar. 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.) I recall a time when requests for changes to code for a project I worked on had to be approved by a committee. The committee read a form describing the proposed change, the problem it solved/avoided, and its effect on the system; this latter was described in a memo as the "impact" of the on the system. I dutifully filled out a form describing these things, with a paragraph stating "This is written on an 8.5*11" sheet of paper, and hence would have very little impact, even if thrown very hard. You could wad it up into a little ball and throw it for greater impact." (Also included was what they were really after.) My supervisor (a wonderful man) *insisted* that the committee read my form at the next meeting...With wondrous speed official forms came out for change requests. James Jones