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From: mp@ganehd.UUCP (Scott Barman @ Univ. of Ga.)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: "I don't care who this offends!!"
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Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 23:21:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 23 23:21:13 1984
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You bunch of pompus morons!

I originally posted the joke with the above mentioned subjet line in net.jokes.
I am also going to make the disclaimer that since this is a flame, grammar
and spelling will not be carefully considered!

**FLAME ON FULL BLAST**
To all you pompus morons who feel that you must correct spelling and gramatical
errors in postings to such groups as "net.jokes" and "net.flame":

Do you talk in perfect English?  If you do you are among a very, very small
minority!  Spoken English (as spoken in the USA) is not intended to strictly
conform to proper English.  Did you know that proper English doesn't allow
you to drop the 'g' on a word with an "-ing" ending.  Most people do.  Do
you speak in double negatives (as in "I ain't got no patience!")?  Or do
you use the word "ain't"?  If you answer YES to any of these, forget it,
you do not speak perfect English yourself.

Is there anything concrete that says EXACTLY what perfect English is?  I don't
think so!  To prove it I will give the following senario:
	I was taking my second quarter of English the same time I was
	taking a class in assembly language programming (IBM 370 assembler).
	The same day a program was due, a paper was due for the English
	class.  Since I had little time to write a paper from scratch,
	I found a paper from the previous quarter that I made a B on and
	retyped it to hand in.  I made a C on the paper the second time.
	Both English teachers had a PhD (in English).

Two English professors could not agree on what was correct or not!  I was
temped to try it a third time to see what would happen, but I didn't.
If these people, who are trained in the usage of the English language to
the point they recieved their PhD's using the language, could not agree, then
how can you pompus asses out there (most WITHOUT PhD's in English) criticize
someone elses grammar.  Come on people, get with it!  While there might be
rules for these grammars, how many interpretations are there for them?
Too damn many for the whole net to complain something that appeared in
"net.jokes".

**FLAME TO A SIMMER**

I will not accept mail on this posting.  Any recieved will be promptly routed
directly to /dev/black.hole (a/k/a /dev/null).

Scott Barman
(Shpx 'em if they can't take a joke!)