Klarinet Archive - Posting 000907.txt from 1997/08

From: "Leo van Zantvoort" <leovz@-----.nl>
Subj: Re: Spelling
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:13:46 -0400

I did take it personally, but I'm a -not-Englisch-speaking-person- (Yes... there are some...) therefore it is
extremly difficult for me to catch the right intonation (... am I out off tune now?)

On Thu, 21 Aug 97 12:13:38 PDT, C Henderson wrote:

>> fun....didn't take it personally at all!
>>
>Thanks, Roger, you took the message exactly the way it was meant. In fact, for those others who got
upset, it was *not* a correction, but merely a message on how the (rather unusual) word was spelt. If I was
inclined to correct spelling, as someone pointed out I could have corrected "tounge". I assume, though,
that everyone knows that word, and if you choose to spell it wrongly, that's up to you. I have to admit I'm
stunned by how a simple message about the spelling of a word can turn into such a long-winded
discussion. I put a joke and a smile into a two-sentence message - isn't that enough to tell you it wasn't a
rebuke?? :-)