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From: phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Credibility
Message-ID: <1473@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 09:08:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1473
Posted: Fri Jun 14 09:08:59 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 20:09:27 EDT
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Reply-To: phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller)
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Summary: 

>                           The diversity that results makes English one of the
>most expressive languages for any form of literature in which lyrical qualities
>are important.  
>
>	I for one enjoy the complexities of our language, and appreciate the
>diversity and subtle beauty of its words.  I'd rather have to refer to a
>dictionary every so often (a task I find pleasant) than give those pleasures
>up.
>
AMEN!  I, too, enjoy the complexities and subtleties of the language and would
hate to see it lose its richness of expression.

I've always been a good speller and have never managed to understand how 
someone could master the attention to details required by programming and the
arcane intricacies of some programming languages but still spell at a sixth
grade level.  Whenever I start to read an article that is badly spelled and 
grammatically incorrect, I can't avoid being suspicious of the content of the
article as well.  I suppose there may be some _idiots savants_ in computer
science, but they can't be *that* numerous! (:-))



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                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)
                        Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill
                        Chapel Hill, NC 27514       (919) 966-1153