Dragaera

Swords, and a tolerable acquintance with their length

Matt Jennings attjen at gwu.edu
Fri Aug 16 13:50:28 PDT 2002

>===== Original Message From Nytemuse <nytemuse at auros.org> =====
>On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
>> Matt Jennings writes:
>> >I actually only typed it that way because I had seen it from another 
poster.
>> >When I saw the earlier correction, I realized my mistake.
>>
>> Probably my fault -- I'm pretty attrocious, and remember thinking as I
>> was typing "is that how it's spelled, not sure, guess it will
>> work". :)
>
>Well, I recall who it was, but no need to point fingers.  If it had
>happened once, I would have assumed typo, but twice in the same
>eMail...especially on a list "dedicated" to certain authors/works.  I've
>given misinformation before and just wished someone had corrected me
>before I made an arse of myself, so I try and politely correct spelling (a
>hell of a lot more than I do grammar), just in case.

Heck, usually I don't even type a word if I am not sure how to spell it. I'll 
look it up if I can't think of an alternative.  (See earlier post where I used 
Tiassa instead of Khaavren.)

I wish I could do the same for my horrible grammar.

MattJ

"Forward in all directions." - 3m3