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Subject: Re: OT language stuff (was Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new)
Date: 21 Jun 2011 20:42:16 GMT
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In article <itobj8$j1m$1@localhost.localdomain>,
Martin Gregorie  <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:19:56 +0000, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> 
> > In article <fB1Lp.9356$PA5.814@newsfe01.iad>, Arved Sandstrom 
> > <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> I blame lack of reading
> >> for this problem; it's not possible to make these mistakes (or for that
> >> matter, to be a bad speller, period) if you read voraciously.
> > 
> > You think?  I sometimes wonder if some people's brains are wired to care
> > about spelling, and others' aren't.
> >
> I'm with Arved here: quite a lot of mistakes would appear to indicate the 
> author is an almost illiterate person who listens more than he reads, e.g 
> writing 'your' instead of 'you're'. A lot of the more (to me) irritating 
> habits are probably the result of not realising that spoken idiom differs 
> from written, e.g. using 'of' in place of 'with' - this seems to be a 
> North American habit.

Say what ....  Can you give an example of that ('of' instead of
'with')?

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B. L. Massingill
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