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To: Kenya AA who wrote (47414)	2/8/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

K: Whose the "certain other person who will remain nameless"? I promise I want mention his/her/it's name. My primary excuse about spelling is that my keyboard sticks on "s" . In fact, I try to write words that don't have an "s" so I won't have to correct it. Maybe I should bight the bullet and get it fixed. My second excuse is that the spell-checker has cried "wolf" so many times that I no longer take notice of it (it cries "wolf" because, as an American, it is always telling me that my English spelling of words is wrong when, actually, we were here first). My third excuse is that I have to write in a kind of mid-Atlantikese. Sometimes I realise that what I have written may not be understandable to an American so I throw in an Americanism and generally forget my normal rules of grammar and structure, because I have been told so many times by Americans that the English are "stuffed shirts". For example, earlier today I describe Malvoli's dissertation as something from a "Chinese Cracker". I started off to say "Cracker". An English reader would know that I meant "Christmas Cracker" a traditional paper novelty pulled by two people until it breaks open with a loud crack - inside there is usually a printed maxim. But some American might not understand this reference. So I changed it to "Chinese Cookie". But in the process the two became one - "Chinese Cracker". I could spend a lot of time on being formally correct or I can get the message across. My fourth excuse is that all my other writings in my life have to be painfully accurate and it is part of the fun here to be sloppy. The thing to do is to learn to write in JIMBO MORSE. !!!!!! ****** YES!!!!!! GO!!!!!!