Aesquire.237
net.followup
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!esquire!psl
Tue Mar 16 00:50:33 1982
grammar
The inability of computer programmers to spell has long been a topic of
discussion.  I've never heard a satisfying explanation for this phenomenon.
I don't find it annoying except when the meaning of a message is either
badly obscured or lost completely.  Oh, I guess I also get a little excited
over "kernal" and a few others that appear so often that they may replace
the perfectly usable original.  I agree that communication would be more
pleasant if I didn't have to sound each word out to discover what the writer
intended (sorry, aps) but I'm not sure what we can do to improve other's
spelling; in spoken communication I've already managed to make an enemy or
two by suggesting that "fewer" be used in place of "less" (e.g. "Lissen four-
eyes, you keep that up and you're gonna have less teeth", "Don't you mean
`fewer'?", "CRUNCH!").  Perhaps a newsgroup "net.misspell" to which people
could contribute their favorite misspelled words...

                                                       Name withheld by request

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