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From: jc@sdcsvax.UUCP (John Cornelius)
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Subject: In pursuit of persuit....
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 12:53:45 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 19 12:53:45 1985
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Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Keywords: dictionary, use of. liberal arts education.
Summary: Flame on spelling transgressions by college graduates.

Maybe this belongs in net.flame but, what the hey! Nothing ventured, nothing
gained.

Just about the time I think I'm on a network full of brilliant, erudite
scholars responsible for creating the mechanisms which will be the foundation
of future societies I discover words like 'persuit' littering the disk.

Please understand, I too corrupt the English language from time to time with
misspellings, dangling participles, and disjoint parenthetical expressions. We
all make mistakes. The thing that galls me is that incorrect spellings get
propagated until, after the 10th appearance of a misspelling, I am driven to
!grep '^word' /usr/dict/words
or (more often) actually pick up a copy of Webster's latest to discover a new
word.

I understand that in some liberal arts schools they still use books. Ones
that have been edited and checked for spelling errors. Terribly low tech. stuff
for an engineering school but......

O.K.! You're right! This is a flame! Of course I'm not mad at anybody! It goes
here anyway because this is where the 'persuit' is going on.

(God! I hope I didn't misspell anything here. It'll get propagated through
hundreds of articles.)

Slightly tongue in check,

John Cornelius
Western Scientific