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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Minor Catharsis
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 17:55:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 17:55:24 1984
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From postnews Thu Sep 27 14:53:56 1984

Basically, this argument about spelling and grammer is indeed stupid.
If you cannot use the language correctly, you cannot communicate your
thoughts to other people efficiently.  If I am reading an artical and
run into a statement similar to "their going to" my reading has
to come to a stop long enough for me to translate that statement into
into the American English statement that was meant "they're going to".
If you mean for your postings to excercises in the translation of
nonsense into English, please note that in the subject line, so that
I can skip the artical, if you cannot be bothered to be literate in
your oun language, whatever you say has to be taken with a large grain
of salt... because if you cannot express your thoughts in such a manner
as to be understood without tranlation, it is extremely unlikely that
you know what you think.

Try typing commands into your computer that are spelled incorrectly,
or use incorrect syntax.  Does it work?  Humans are much more versatile,
and may be able to do some translation but the same concepts apply.

This is not meant to apply to people who do not use English as their
native toungue.  In such a case, I would expect that they know how to
use their native toungue correctly, and may make inadvertant mistakes
in translating to English (and are being very kind to attempt that
translation for us uncivilized folks who only speak one language).

I keep a dictionary at my desk and use it frequently.  Try it.

Richard Brower		Fortune Systems
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