Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!matt From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Decent English in Net Articles (flame) Message-ID: <1663@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 12:57:19 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.1663 Posted: Mon Sep 23 12:57:19 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 11:06:25 EDT References: <214@3comvax.UUCP> <5923@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 18 > >Levity aside, the ``pro-life'' movement philosophically > >maintains -- nay, *demands* -- that this single non-sentient > >cell's ``human'' rights outway the rights of an adult human! > >[MICHAEL MCNEIL] > Why "outwheigh"? Why not "equal"? It is an accepted fact that > certain rights I may have do not outweigh your right to live. > [PAUL DUBUC] "OUTWAY"???? "OUTWHEIGH"????? Dammit, this kind of bad English makes net.abortion look like a refuge for third-graders trying to guess how to write according to the "look-say" system! I know that we all can't be Harvard folk like Marie desJardins Park, but we CAN run our articles through the UNIX (TM) utility "spell" to avoid the absurdity of a misspelling answering another misspelling. Or we can use a dictionary. Come on, guys!! -- Matt Rosenblatt Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com