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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: English Usage - Some reasons to clean up.
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Date: Wed, 21-Dec-83 01:15:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 21 01:15:05 1983
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It's amazing how every time the Spelling Problem rears its deformed head
it appears as complaints from a few that there are some really bad and
glaring mistakes out there and mutates into a chorus from the bad spelling
apologists that nobody spells everything perfectly.  The Problem's brother
Grammar, drawn by the scent of blood (or at least treacle), arrives and
follows the same course as its sibling.  (Mixing that metaphor sure was fun.)

The Problem is not that nobody does it perfectly, but rather that so many
don't bother to do anything about it at all:  there is a lot of spelling
out there that is *so bad* that it seriously affects the reading of articles.
(And no, I'm not referring to poor defensive Laura Creighton, who is actually
one of the more understandable people out there.)

Confusing lack of perfection with lack of attempt is avoiding the question.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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