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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: the last, no really, the last flame on spelling.  Really.
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 13:55:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 13:55:46 1984
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Egad.  John Hobson thinks that "(sp?)" is completely benign, that
it serves as a cute, whispered "sorry about that" to you, the
discerning reader.  E B White, in his introduction to "The Elements
of Style," eulogizes his English professor and co-author of that book,
William Strunk:

	"I remember a day in class when he leaned far forward,
	in his characteristic pose--the pose of a man about to
	impart a secret--and croaked, 'If you don't know how
	to pronounce a word, say it loud!  If you don't know
	how to pronounce a word, say it load!'  This comical
	piece of advice struck me as sound at the time, and I
	still respect it.  Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?
	Why run and hide?"

Well, John?  You may not have a dictionary at your fingertips, but you
do have Strunk and White, since it's your copy I borrowed to quote from.
But no!  Go run and hide, John.  Emulate the wombats whose most intimate
habits you seem to have more than a passing knowledge of.  Some of us
can't figure out how many h's to put in "Krushchev", although we can
quote him.  We even have trouble with more familiar foreign phrases
like "ad hominem".  But we make a stab at it--not lame excuses!  Or
would you, too, rather be in DisneyLand?
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