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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (2941)	6/12/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 4711

Lather, I don't think "The Written Word" is a pretentious title at all, and I think it is neat. So, for that matter, is "Our Language in Cyberspace" (a pruned-down version of your favorite), although it would be a more appropriate title for a thread devoted to explaining internet gobbledygook. (And I wish someone would found such a thread; when I go to techie stock forums here, I usually don't understand what anyone is talking about.) How about these? Gramma Joan's Grammar Lab (too egotistical) Garrulous Grinds & Geeks on Grammar (Is the term "grinds" passe'?) etc. etc. There have been so many good suggestions. No doubt I should have thought more before devising the title for this thread in the first place, but to be honest with you, I rather doubted there would be any interest in the subject at all. Starting it was, quite simply, a Cry of Pain, a Howl in the Dark, a Statement of Protest, if you will. At the moment, I tend to go along with those who advocate a very limited change in the present title -- since that is what I wanted in the first place. (See how democratic I am? <g>) What DOES need heavy revision is the thread header -- the intro. Perhaps some of the proposed titles, or at least the concepts underlying them, can be incorporated in the new intro. Actually, no "perhaps" about it; they should be. Joan