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- From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Spelling Insecurities (sp?)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:40:06 GMT
- Organization: Weasels
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- Steve Salter writes:
- >what would pushup the Neilsen (sp?) ratings!
-
- Ever since I was I was a young boy and cars had large fins I've wondered
- about the mentality of people who write "(sp?)" after words they may or
- may not have spelled incorrectly.
-
- The most annoying thing is that the (sp?) looks a lot like those (sp) marks
- that elementary-school teachers used to write on essays when you spelled
- something wrong. Reading *anything* with a reminder of those (thankfully)
- bygone years is a peeve. Imagine how disconcerting it would be to get
- the dissertation back from your defense committee with those red curls that
- mean "correct" all over it. Wouldn't it be lame beyond compare to get that
- paper back from the editorial board with a "good job" sticker on it? Sheesh.
-
- So what are these (sp?) people *thinking*!?! Perhaps (a) they're trying
- to be teachers' pet butt slurpies. I can just imagine them sucking up to
- teach now saying "Well I might have spelled it wrong, so I saved you the
- effort of making the (sp) mark <snork> <snork>." Perhaps (b) they're
- trying to save face by swaggering "Well maybe the word is spelled wrong
- and maybe it isn't, but at least I'm studly enough to admit that I'm
- wrong. Maybe. <hitch up pants> <wiggle shoulders>."
-
- Jesus, that punctures my scrotum with a pool cue! If you're gonna spell
- something wrong, at least have the androgens to do it without slapping
- an apologetic (sp?) on it. Maybe people will think it's a typing error.
- But merely adding (sp?) draws attention to your potential fuckup. Might
- as well put a disclaimer in your .sig saying "Certain words above may
- be spelled incorrectly. Although I am aware of this, I am too busy
- teaching the cat to lick my genitals without biting them to look them up."
-
- Peeve: Being too busy to post to a.p few weeks. (And, no, it has nothing
- to do with a cat.)
-
- BoneUsPeeve: Not being able to post *why*. (Geoff knows.)
-
- --
- "What one must not do, no matter what, is to keep kneading the penis as if one
- were preparing dinner rolls. This will only make him sad. Also refrain from
- saying wistfully, "Do you think it will go up soon?"" --Cynthia Heimel
-