>From: "Adrian Fogarty" <[log in to unmask]>
>Forget academia, I despair about our use of language on this list
>sometimes.
>What is it about electronic communication that makes people get sloppy? I
>suspect many people post on the list after a few beers, late at night,
>including myself! In the following short (anonymised) paragraph from a
>recent posting I have spotted no fewer than 15 errors of spelling and
>punctuation - there are probably more! We all make one or two errors per
>paragraph but this is ridiculous.
.
.
>Adrian Fogarty
===>
Sir. You require one (or more) of the following.
1. A lot more beer before reading this list's produce.
2. To take "sloppy" as "relaxed".
3. Joyn ! eEn Wiv uS, SLoPpEeE punk-2-8-ors.
hic!
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