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

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (193)	1/2/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Yes, but Patrick, did you read the last several? You're missin&#146 the fun. We took photos of the native girls, but they're not developed yet. That's why we're going back. -MrB C L A R I T Y \| L A N G U A G E \| M E A N I N G

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (193)	1/2/1998 7:09:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Hi Patrick, Did you ever stop to think that people may respond quickly and post incorrectly simply because of poor typing? I'm sure we would all admit to doing that frequently. I type with two fingers--VERY badly. But if you would read our posts, you'd realize we don't want to criticize individual errors, but discuss the more commonly misused and abused words and grammar, or really, just to have fun with words and derivatives. We are all logophiliacs, suffering from an obsession with words, but I don't think we mean to be logogogues and grammaticasters, merely grandiloquently nice people. (I guess I should add that I have no idea what the original intention of the thread was; this has been what I've observed today.)

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (193)	1/2/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Patrick, it's arbitrary symbolism which changes dramatically in time and space based on several often random factors. Pick up a text published sufficiently far back in time, wait sufficiently long or take a trip sufficiently far in any direction and you will see what I mean. Spelling and grammar are more than just a trivial pursuit, they actually stifle both creativity and logical thinking. Agreement on standard forms of communications are important, but only when such protocols are necessary; otherwise this pseudo-wannabee-science is nothing more than dogmatic ritual and an embarrassment to our so-called modern society. Granted, we still have enough oxygen to supply academic grammarians, but why waste it?

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (193)	1/2/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.