Gratuitous spelling flame

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If it can be misspelled, then it will be misspelled. Big words coming from someone named "metadoktor".

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Re: Gratuitous spelling flame by stefp (Vicar) on Jan 24, 2002 at 19:14 UTC
you probably meant: "If it can be mispelled, then it will be misspelled." Corollary: misspelings are not consistant. -- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki	[reply]
Re: Gratuitous spelling flame by metadoktor (Hermit) on Jan 24, 2002 at 19:14 UTC
Calm down boo_radley. It was not meant as a flame. It's just a fact of life that words will get misspelled. metadoktor "The doktor is in."	[reply]
Re: Re: Gratuitous spelling flame by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Jan 24, 2002 at 21:33 UTC
I think he meant it humourously! He was calling his own post a gratuitous flame, interestingly enough from a linguistic point of view, precisely so as to tell us that it was not a flame. Â§ George Sherston	[reply]
Re: Gratuitous spelling flame by helgi (Hermit) on Jan 25, 2002 at 11:21 UTC
Metadoktor is a perfectly well spelled word in almost every language except English. What is it with English and this completely superfluous C? Regards, Helgi Briem	[reply]

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