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Elisa Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 21 Mar 1998 09:40:45 -0700
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At 12:26 AM 3/21/98 -0000, Dave Johnson wrote:
>That's caffeine isn't it - or are we talking about some recent invention?
>I've noticed that spelling ability declines steadily west of the meridian -
>a Paleo effect or just the backwash of earlier failed eezi lerning alfabet
>(sic) teaching methods? Do you people have spelling checkers? Do you use
>them and learn from your mistakes? I suppose <<scedual>> is schedule in
>this spell as u feel environment! It's a sort of linguistic form of <global
>warming>> isn't it?
>
>Sorry to be pedantic but if we continue to spell how we feel we will not be
>able to communicate in writing within 20 years.


Who is "you people"?  Is it really "spelling" that separates the tribes?  I
am not familiar with the Spell Checker Tribe, how do you check your
hieroglyphics after craving them in stone?

Non Pedantic Elisa, trying to communicate.

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