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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang
Subject: Re: "(sp?)" considered wimpy.
Message-ID: <438@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 18:58:25 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.438
Posted: Wed Feb 20 18:58:25 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: "(sp?)" considered polite.


No, Ken, or Gadfly*, if I use "(sp?)" I'm preparing you for a jarring
error.  There are some words that a person can't simply look up, such as
names of people.  Things get especially difficult if the writer has only
heard them and not seen them in print.

"Gary Kasparroff(sp?)" is just a shorthand for "that name that I can't identify
but which is something like Gary Kasparroff".

Mark Brader

*If you want to hide your identity, you'll have to remove the .signature...

Oh yes, this is going to net.flame.  Okay:  you ass, why do you go around
reposting things that have already been on the net before.  You are so dumb,
I'll bet it was even you who posted it the previous time.
:-)