On 7/11/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:40:19AM -0500:
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> I've actually thought about how amusing it would be to literally write
> a bot to scan Usenet for tricky misspellings (like this one, except
> not context-sensitive like this one) and generate reply posts. But
> then I figured the amusement would be more on my end than on the
> spammed group's end, so I didn't.
You could achieve kibo-like fame!
> -todd, who, at heart, never really quit his copy editor job
So, does mixing up affect and effect annoy you as much as it does me?
You all might be interested in looking at the EggCorn data base for
examples of mangled and strangely used words.
< http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ >
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