Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!joe From: joe@cvl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro,net.nlang,net.flame Subject: Re: [jim: Re: Spelling and usage] Message-ID: <381@cvl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 20:59:14 EDT Article-I.D.: cvl.381 Posted: Tue Jun 14 20:59:14 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 20:35:26 EDT Lines: 20 Ron, you failed to note that Jim's alleged correction I agree with Charlie Strom. This single most important language for any person to know, programmer or not, is their native tongue (e.g., usage: should be "i.e." ^^^^ English). was wrong. At least, I hope he didn't really mean to suggest that the native tongue of every person is English, rather than that English is an example of the native tongue of a person. "E.g." translates as "for example," "i.e." as "that is." Now, shouldn't this discussion really be somewhere else? I realize that you arpanauts don't see such enlightening "group remedial grammar sessions" on net.nlang, or net.flame, or net.misc. But some of us have seen a lot of it lately. Perhaps what we need is a multi-network-wide decree to the effect that grammar and spelling may be corrected as vehemently as desired BY MAIL ONLY, and no public acknowledgement of such errors is to be allowed.