Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Loosing and losing
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 06:37:56 -0400

At 12:19 AM 4/6/98, Lee Hickling wrote:
>Is there some reason why so many posters to this list have begun to spell
>lose with two Os? This misspelling is becoming extremely common, and it
>might not bother me as much on a list on some esoteric high-tech subject.
>Many techies have a fine disdain for spelling, grammar and punctuation,
>their minds being on higher things. But seeing such subliteracy on a
>writers' list is disturbing.
>
Standard orthography is losing too much ground to the lazy "let's not
stifle their creativity" school of teaching writing in elementary schools.
It drives me nuts, too, but I am learning to cope with it on the list for
the sake of the exchange of ideas. Computer geeks SHOULD be especially
vigilant about spelling. One tiny spelling error in a string of code will
shoot down the whole program! I think we'll just have to grin and bear it,
but I wanted you to know that someone else "feels your pain."

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