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From: joe@cvl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.nlang,net.flame
Subject: Re: [jim:  Re: Spelling and usage]
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Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 20:59:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 20:59:14 1983
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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.