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To: Paul Viapiano who wrote (1234)	5/5/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Paul, You are to be congratulated for trying to improve your grammar and spelling. Spell checkers and the thesaurus are a tremendous help with computer generated prose. Very good spellers make mistakes even with proofreading. In your post, please let me constructively point out that the comma comes before "but", which is a coordinating conjunction. But since you used a parenthetical expression just before the conjunction, I think you should have just started a new sentence. It's OK to start a sentence with "but". Jack

To: Paul Viapiano who wrote (1234)	5/5/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

..spelling mistakes really make it hard for me to take people seriously. There are spelling mistakes and spelling mistakes. Some are of relatively little importance; others (like "their" for "they're") are more serious, because they basically are grammar mistakes rather than spelling mistakes. Don't be too harsh. Good spelling (in English) is, I think, inborn. Some people have "spelling bumps": they can easily visualize the word as it "ought" to be spelled. I am fortunate enough to belong to this category. However, my late husband, a poet and English professor, lacked a "spelling bump." So, of course, he maintained that the fact I could spell well was proof I "had no imagination". (And of course, there were further rationalizations, such as, "Chaucer didn't spell that word that way.." & etc.) jbe