OT:Favor needed

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>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.

On the other hand, Mark Twain said that anybody who could only spell a word
one way lacked imagination :-).

>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.

Tell that to the so-called literate book reviewers who refer to a book as
``a good read''.

My favorite, brought to mind by the whining from the blue states, was the
description, in Anne Fairbairne's book ``That Man Cartwright'', of the
Limousine Liberal intellectual as ``educated beyond her intelligence''.

Bill
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