Klarinet Archive - Posting 000263.txt from 1998/04

From: Larry Paikin <larrypaikin@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Loosing and losing
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:00:16 -0400

give the governor a hurumph!

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> At 11:14 AM 4/6/98 -0400, Nancy Buckman wrote:
> >Heaven help us all, but what ever happened to proof-reading?
> >
> >Nancy
> >
> I think we should be willing to accept a somewhat lower standard for e-mail
> than we might wish to uphold for publication. Typos will slip through now
> and then, and if we don't have the dictionary readily at hand it is
> unlikely to cause the destruction of the universe. So until e-mail
> programs universally include spell-checkers and grammar-checkers, I vote,
> even against my own idealized vision of a grammatically perfect world, that
> we continue to allow errors in postings, even while we privately deplore
> them. Just remember that our written expression is the only way we can
> present ourselves in a forum like this. If we appear uneducated in our
> writings, our opinions will consequently be devalued by the readers. In
> short, let's just do the best we can, shall we?
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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