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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (196)	1/2/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (4) of 4711

No. I suppose I shall have to read them all and then give up. Personally, I try to correct mispellings and errors in grammar in my own posts but that is only because I re-read everything upon the moment it becomes a quasi-permanent document in the SI archives. However, I do not correct each and everything others say because it detracts from the theme of the message. For example, I do not laugh out loud at a New Yorker saying "idear" instead of "idea" or a Southerner using a dialect that to another may sound absurd. The "Medium is the massage", as it were. As long as I get the gist of the message I am satisfied with that. Persistant nitpicking over form is not necessary, for myself at least. If someone were to make a case to buy AMP stock when in fact the story was about APM I could see where one might get irritated. Inferring that I should get wrapped up with the hypothetical post "You're best buy is APM" when the clear intent was "Your best buy is APM" misses the intent. If I wanted to get caught up in English Usage with no apparent message I would procure a volume of speeches by Alan Greenspan.

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