Re: This is revolting

[Chris Emery <snd_chaser at hotmail_com>]

Dave, I'm only doing this because I love you, man.

From: Dave Cousineau <davec at pads_com>
>I have to take Annie's side on this one. I don't expect every post to be
>proofread or perfect, but I don't see why an email should be littered
>with misspellings and grammatical errors. Why should this medium be held
>to lower standards than a hand-written letter, or a published text for
>that matter. I understand that emails are usually written quickly and
>not everybody has time to check every sentence for the slightest error,
>but c'mon, how hard is it to use the 'backspace' key. That's one of the
>nice things about computers -- you can make all the mistakes you want
>and easily clean them up before posting.

Christ, just about every email client in the known universe (even Hotmail) 
has a spell checker built in.  It doesn't take that long to use it.

>I realize typos are common and not always avoidable (I know it's easy to
>type 'teh' and not notice you did it), but grammar and usage errors show
>a lack of intelligence, as far as I'm concerned (argue all you want
>about physicists being poor writers). I just see to many instances on

"to many instances"?   ;-)

See, Dave, this is why you should never get on a soapbox about grammar and 
spelling - the SMTP gremlins sneak little mistakes like that in there to 
take the wind out of your sails.

Smoochies!

Chris

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