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To: Constitution Day
So I'm a spelling freak, flame away.
7 posted on 02/07/2003 10:56:21 AM PST by Intimidator
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To: Intimidator
Hey! I was kidding.
18 posted on 02/07/2003 10:57:48 AM PST by Constitution Day ((I am also a spelling freak))
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To: Intimidator
OK, who died and made you the spelling bee champ? COM'ON BE SERIES!! We want to know! TIS IS HUGH!!
66 posted on 02/07/2003 11:10:52 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Intimidator
Speeleng iz varee difacult fore sum peepole.

--A homme edgeacater
90 posted on 02/07/2003 11:18:09 AM PST by paws_and_whiskers
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To: Intimidator; Poohbah
So I'm a spelling freak, flame away.

I share your sentiment. Spelling is one thing, but what I can't stand are the interrogative and exclamatory sentences that end in multiple question/exclamation marks. To me, that's so very childish and shrill.

ALLCAPS suck, too.

No flames from me.

T-minus 36 days until the birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

99 posted on 02/07/2003 11:20:48 AM PST by rdb3 (The ballad of a menace...)
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To: Intimidator
So I'm a spelling freak, flame away.

Me, too, Intimidator. "Series," "prolly," "all your [blank] are belong to us," and similar oft-used items seem to be either inside jokes that have taken on a life of their own, or Web-speak, or both. I overlook most of it, since there's nothing I can do about it. Language is an ever-evolving thing, after all. For example, correct use of adverbs (most words ending with 'ly') seems to be a dying form here in the U.S. I haven't got a clue why.

103 posted on 02/07/2003 11:21:32 AM PST by Wolfstar
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To: Intimidator
OK guys let's flaym him!
212 posted on 02/07/2003 12:12:45 PM PST by pke
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