OT:Favor needed

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:25:59PM -0500):
| >From inside the gravity well of a singularity, J. P. Radley shouted:
| > 
| > But "bud's"  does not look to me like like a contraction. 
| > It looks like a possessive, and I think you meant a plural.
| > English plurals don't (a contraction) use apostrophes.
| > :-)
| 
| Speaking of contractions, how far apart are yours, JP?  I just wanna know
| when you'll be done having kittens over his little typo that doesn't matter
| a damn in the grand scheme of things.

It's not a "little typo" -- that would be some example of an error in
typing or data entry.

It's a mis-spelling, and I will never agree that spelling does not
matter.

Some information about my education might be pertinent here.  My
elementrary school education occured at the French Lycee in New York,
not in an American school.  The French educational system does not
wall off one discipline from another.  If you make a spelling mistake
on *any* test in any subject, your score declines.  IOW, mis-spelling
"therfor" in a math exam diminishes your score, just as mis-spelling
"progresive" in a philosophy exam will also degrade your score.
Literacy is expected at all times.

-- 
JP