OT:Favor needed

[Bill Akers]

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.
> 
> 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.
> 

Sound like my little old country school in Mississippi. Even the 
agriculture teacher expected literacy.