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Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.



On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:37:47PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> I never said that my spelling of that was correct.  And seen Branden's
> response(mail(like irc) is conversational, similiar to spoken speech, and
> therefor has no need for spelling rules to be applied to it).

I wouldn't go that far.  It's just that correctness in detail, while not
insignificant in conversational contexts, is far less important than it
is in formal documentation.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    Men use thought only to justify
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    their wrong doings, and speech only
branden@debian.org                 |    to conceal their thoughts.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Voltaire

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