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Polly Trotsky

17:41 / 02.05.02

I came across a couple of message boards linked to, for example, the fighting whites homepage, and found them difficult to read – as in 1 out of five words were spelled incorrectly, and grammar tended to be borrowed from several different language families. In the past, Haus has been generally abused for making with the spelling funnies; and well, so have others. Such policing may be at times cruel and thread-rotty, but I’d like to thank the efforts of the lexical lordes or keeping this place legible.

Anything you appreciate around here?

Jack Fear

17:49 / 02.05.02

In the past, Haus has been generally abused for making with the spelling funnies...

Not by me. If anything, I'm more persnickety on the subject even than His Snarky Self: this morning I found myself embarrassing comics writer Bill Willingham by taking exception to a piece of professionally-written ad copy for his new series that referred to "a grizzly murder scene." Uh, no—not unless bears were involved.

Me, I appreciate The Gathering, and all those people who know and see one another in offline meatspace; for providing me with an aspect of the board to alternately ignore and resent, thus helping keep my priorities straight, I salute you!

Bastards.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:55 / 02.05.02

Actually, if I started correcting spelling where it didn't actively interfere with the understanding of the post, I would be here every waking second, not least dealing with my own "it's lunchtime and I'm drunk" spoonerisms. Never mind punctuation....

The crown must go to Whisky Priestes, for her immortal rejoinder to Grimly Fiendish's "the German people have failed me" farewell message. Replying, "Bye Bye, hope the spelling gets better," she was deluged with comments of the "He's dyslexic, you know" variety.

Ze deserves our respect for sticking to hir "Well, he's still a moron" guns.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

22:03 / 02.05.02

Soul of a copy editor.

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

22:09 / 02.05.02

Don't blame (English) people for thier inabillaty to spell, blame the English education system.
I studied A-Level English but i'm still shite at my own language, the first 3 months of my A-Level was grammer, which i still don't fully grasp; i ask you.

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