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From: len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <325@geac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 15:36:45 EST
Article-I.D.: geac.325
Posted: Fri Nov 21 15:36:45 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Nov-86 19:53:52 EST
References: <751@chinet.UUCP> <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <1333@PUCC.BITNET> <764@axis.UUCP> <325@viper.UUCP>
Reply-To: len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Organization: Geac Computers Intl. Toronto, CANADA
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In article <325@viper.UUCP> dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>
> In article <764@axis.UUCP>, philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake) writes:
> > 
> > Maybe NEWS 2.12 should have a modiffied version of spell included,
> > so that it rejects such terrible attrocities committed against
> > the english language !   [SIC]
>
>Need I say more?


Philip was discussing the manufacturing of words like
"disauthorized" when there exist perfectly acceptable words that
are already in the language.

Dave is apparently pouncing on Philip's typo "modiffied" and
trying to use this to invalidate Philp's argument. There is a
huge difference between typos (of which I have made more than I
can count in typing this reply) and the laziness of making up
words when you cannot be bothered thinking up a correct antonym
or noun/verb/adjective form of the word you are thinking of.

Len Vanek
Geac Computers
Markham, Ontario, Canada

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