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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The last word in spelling flames!
Message-ID: <543@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 09:37:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 09:37:41 1984
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    You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he
    doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days
    when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
				- Piglet, about Owl
				  Winnie-The_Pooh by A.A. Milne
Neal Weidenhofer states:

>>	Speaking for myself, a few misspelled words are no problem. 
>>	The "(sp?)" that says to me "I don't know if I spelled this
>>	word right or not and you aren't worth looking it up for."
>>	is pretty damned offensive.

As a semi-regular user of this practice, I want to defend it.  Yes,
when I put "(sp?)" after a word, I do mean "I don't know if I
spelled this word right or not", however, I do not mean to imply
that the reader isn't worth my looking it up.  I am just
acknowledging my uncertainty so that the reader doesn't say "look at
that stupid fool, can't even spell pneumonia" (I can, it's just that
the "k" on my terminal sticks).  Does it ever occur to you that I
might not have a dictionary handy?

				John Hobson
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Naperville, IL
				(312) 979-7293
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