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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
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Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 10:02:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 27 10:02:13 1987
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|one of my pet peeves is the perversion of standard English by
|computer hackers too lazy to look in the dictionary.  Please
|print the following and post on your terminal:

Oh come on, lighten up. The only ones I would object to are calling []
braces and {} brackets.  Exclaimation mark is too much of a mouthful.
Do you object to calling # sharp? That is what musicians call it you
know. It all depends on context.  And you didn't complain about people
spelling tilde as tilda.

There are far worse spelling errors in posted articles.  It seems the
fashion these days to spell words the way they sound.

	Ken