From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!npl Newsgroups: net.flame Title: YASAGF Article-I.D.: whuxlb.898 Posted: Thu Jan 27 23:59:22 1983 Received: Wed Feb 2 02:32:33 1983 YET ANOTHER SPELLING AND GRAMMAR FLAME! Well folks, just about time for another flame about spelling and grammar! ("Do we have to through this again" you ask? "Yes!" spoke he.) I know that we have had this discussion a few months ago, but I feel that it is time to open it up again. Since the last diatribes by myself and some others (no, I can't take credit or blame for starting those discussions but I heartily seconded the sentiments), the "quality" of the spelling and grammar of submissions to the net had seemed to improve. I don't mind the occasional typo, we all are guilty of that, but, just now, I read a netnews submission which, in a scant 20 lines had no less than 13 spelling errors, 3 grammatical errors, and 2 typographical mistakes. (I had my wife check my counts and she actually increased them from the original values.) Please people! Not only are you making some other people cringe when they see this kind of submission, but you are also causing your views to be discounted as those of an "illiterate clod." (I just happen to agree with a good portion of the article in question, but others, who disagree, or who may be swayed from a neutral stance by a well-reasoned argument, will tend to disregard it because of the reason mentioned above.) NICK P.S. I took some time out to check the spelling of one word I wasn't sure of. This does not guarantee that I am letter perfect in this submission to the net, but at least I tried to be. If you think your views are valuable enough to post on the net, you should make the extra effort to ensure that they can not be dismissed out of hand for "trivial" reasons.