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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Joana Tides who wrote (2653)5/24/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (2) of 4711
 
Joana, very clever piece. Did you just spin it off, like that? I'm impressed.

Since you submitted it here, I hope you won't mind a few comments of a grammatical/orthographical nature. :-)

The point you are trying to make is that we should not sneer at posters who make errors while communicating to us invaluable information. Unfortunately, you undermine your point if you make anything that looks like an error yourself, because then your poem looks self-serving. So, I would suggest a few changes:

1) "Badly-spelled" instead of "lousy-spelled" ("lousily-spelled" doesn't scan right).

2) "Nuance in" rather than "nuance to".

3) "Suppression" instead of "supression".

I expecially like your last line, by the way. It wraps up your thought very nicely! :-)

jbe
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