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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: grammar and spelling
Message-ID: <3058@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 17:20:46 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.3058
Posted: Thu Dec 29 17:20:46 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Dec-83 01:06:16 EST
Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta
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So what's all this then about grammar and spelling?  I don't see why you
should get upset.  It's traditional and something which is becoming a
lost art.  Besides it keeps them busy.  Sometimes they're even useful.
So, whenever granny wants to cast a spell, let her.

Hmmm?  Oh.  Never mind.

Syntax aids semantics, and thus enhances communication.  We have people
who flame about both, and add pragmatic meaning at no extra cost to
the reader.

Me?  I'd rather not have my thoughts imprisoned by strict adherence to
the laws of standard grammar.  To be sentenced for a spell to reading
news like this should be pun-ishment enough.
-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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