Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:40:36 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: gah! let's try that again - Re: google word list
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ted White wrote:
> On 12/19/2010 10:56 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
>>  "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Too many pages to proofread would be they're argument I would
>>> imagine.
>>  There's a great shortage of proofreaders everywhere.
>
> At least one of whom would point out that it should be "their argument."

Too many Americans are so illiterate that they don't even look at what
their spellchecker tells them, much less not grammar.

mark, who threatened to start an organization for years of
ninja grammarians, correcting spelling on signs with
spray paint....
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