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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (193)1/2/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 4711
 
1) I started this thread in order to vent -- WITHOUT hurting any individual poster's feelings -- about errors that were irritating me. In short, I specifically did NOT want to attract those posters here so that I could "play Mrs. Crabtree," to use your felicitous expression.

2) To be even more specific: it was not the ordinary Joes & certainly not the foreigners who got my goat, but the would-be gurus who have the habit of going on and on in impenetrable, pretentious, and impossibly gnarled prose.

3) The kind of mistakes we are talking about are not typos, but chronic and persistent errors that cannot be attributed to careless typing, such as the habitual use of "it's" for "its," etc., etc.
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