From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!lime!houxg!houxi!houxb!samm Newsgroups: net.general Title: Re: re:The English Language Article-I.D.: houxb.118 Posted: Thu May 13 10:31:30 1982 Received: Fri May 14 03:46:08 1982 It appears to me that there are three kinds of people (yes, I use the word 'people' like that) on netnews: (1) those who write 'affect' for 'effect', 'loose' for 'lose', 'publically' for 'publicly', etc., etc., ad nauseam; (2) those who write articles about how illiterate the members of group 1 are, and provide lists of favourite style manuals (I've never understood what style amnuals had to do with correct spelling and simple errors of grammar and usage); (3) those who reply to articles by group 2, sniping at real or perceived errors in THEIR (i.e. group 2's) articles, and proclaiming the supremacy of CONTENT over FORM (as if there are clear dividing lines between them). I have a proposal: let's all shut up and let the illiterate, the literate, and the many in between continue on their own merry ways - it's not that likely that we are going to change the quality of anyone's English/ American just by putting articles on net.* PS. It's obvious that I meant 'at least three kinds ...' - I suspect the (oops, read that " I suspect that the ") silent group is the largest.