Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!dual!hav 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 Article-I.D.: dual.819 Posted: Thu Sep 27 20:38:15 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 08:39:38 EDT References: <319@ihu1e.UUCP> <1080@shark.UUCP> <4357@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 72 <*munch*> => 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