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From: hav@dual.UUCP (Helen Anne Vigneau)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Minor Catharsis
Message-ID: <819@dual.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 20:38:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 20:38:15 1984
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=> From postnews Thu Sep 27 14:53:56 1984
=> 
=> Basically, this argument about spelling and grammer is indeed stupid.

   GRAMMAR!!!

=> If you cannot use the language correctly, you cannot communicate your
=> thoughts to other people efficiently.  If I am reading an artical and

   ARTICLE!!!

=> 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

                        postings to BE EXERCISES 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

   I said ARTICLE!!!

=> 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

   How about a ten-pound sack of salt?

=> 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,

   What book says to use a comma after *incorrectly* here?

=> or use incorrect syntax.  Does it work?  Humans are much more versatile,

   I guess it must be the same one that says to use a comma after *versatile*
   here.

=> 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

   TONGUE!!!  Is English your native tongue, Richard?  :-)

=> use their native toungue correctly, and may make inadvertant mistakes

   I said TONGUE!!!  You really like commas, don't you?  Also, INADVERTENT!!!

=> in translating to English (and are being very kind to attempt that
=> translation for us uncivilized folks who only speak one language).

   Ah, then English *is* your native tongue!

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

   You do???

=> 
=> Richard Brower		Fortune Systems
=> {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!brower

Nothing personal, Richard, but I certainly hope for Fortune's sake that you
don't write the documentation for them.

Helen Anne Vigneau
Dual Systems Corporation