<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 30, 2010 2:11:38 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Stephen Baxter's Titan<br></font><br>
On 4/30/2010 9:35 AM, Kevin Freels wrote:<br><br>> I should know better than to<br>> make such a mistake here.<br>> But it does cause me to consider how fantastic it is to live in a world<br>> where we can send energy across the globe through dozens of networks<br>> maintained by thousands of individuals for no other purpose than to<br>> correct one character of my spelling. :-P<br><br>Well, as someone once commented in a similar context:<br><br>"I don't get why people of at least average intelligence cannot grasp 3rd or 4th grade grammar. And they're often _so defensive_ (as well they should be, I guess - but why not learn a few simple rules, instead?)."<br><br>Damien Broderick<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Wow. I didn't see all those apostrophes on my Treo, but it sure is ugly on my notebook screen! I know I didn't put them all there myself. I certainly wouldn't intentionally type "meet's". Just
seeing it gives me flashbacks of a guy I used to work with that always said <span style="font-style: italic;">mines </span>when he meant <span style="font-style: italic;">mine</span>. The auto-fill could explain the "it's" but not the rest. Sadly, I have no explanation or excuse.<br><br></div></div>
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