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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: English Usage - Some reasons to clean up.
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 12:49:36 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 12:49:36 1983
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Yelling at people does not make their problems go away, Brad.
Because you can spell and remember whether is is "your" or "you're"
you assume that other people must have this ability. it just
isn't so. Screaming only makes you look foolish, unless it makes
you prime target for the criticism "they couldn't fault the content
so they went for the form". I would love to know how to spell
to get so many people off my back, but I can't. I cannot rewire my
brain to understand splling, or even the notion of letter order in
a word. My brain didn't come tha tway and there is nothing that
I can do about it.

how about you lay off and practise compassion and forgiveness for a bit?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura

ps -- I have looked at this short piece for a 5 minutes. I can detect
no errors in it. Undoubtably there are errors. But this gives you some
idea of the magnitude of the problem that some of us are up against
all the time.