<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On Wednesday night I read:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Message: 5<br>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:18:57 -0400 (EDT)<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a><br>Subject: Re: (urth) A second dream team: Mucor, Oreb, and Pike<br><br><br>Why is it important to you that other people should conform to your<br>standards of correctness, Mark? If you understand what they are saying, is<br>it really necessary that you point out to them that they are wrong? Why do<br>you do this, if it is not necessary?<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div>And I immediately thought:<div><br><div> "Eye suppoze ewer rite. If ewe can sea watt peephole are saying itz knot raleigh kneaded two poynt out tooth em that they are rung." </div><div><br></div><div> Mr. Millman may have been a bit exasperated in his corrections, but they were short and to the point. I learned something from them. We should aspire to use these unfamiliar words correctly.</div><div><br></div><div>Kieran "Should anal-retentive be hyphenated?" Mullen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>