Re: Re: RE: Re: brad de long textbook

[Jim Devine]

At 01:37 PM 5/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>And I'm sure he is donating all his advance and royalties back to UC to
>>underwrite scholarships for low income and minority students, matching in
>>action, his rhetoric to others about thier moral obligations to California
>>society.
>
>
>Learn to spell "their".

somewhere I saw an instruction manual about how to start flame wars on the 
Internet. One of the points was to correct everyone's spelling. Since many 
people don't have spell-checkers on their e-mail programs and because 
spelling standards are especially low in e-mails, this is especially 
obnoxious. Of course, some apply this strategy selectively, only using it 
to attack those who are perceived as politically incorrect. Most 
importantly, it helps its practitioner to avoid addressing the issues.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine