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Publishers of the wierd response to flames

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From: bgardner
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28
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Thanks for your responses... :)
I never claimed to be a good speler or gramar doer :)
The mis-spellings were a result of the combined facts that the comp. center
was closing, and that I basically can not spell.  Learning Disabinlity and
all... at home I have a spell check and everyone's happy.  
As for gramar,it sickens me.  Writers, good writers, get away with very poor 
gramar.  In order to have propper gramar you have to be half insane, because
the rules on gramar change twice a year.  One month you have to put coma's
in between and and something no matter what, then... six months later you
only have to do it if it's the final word in a string... then you only don't
have to do it in those instances.  Gramar is meant to help the reader no
when to put pauses... if a writer can do that without a coma then that, to me,
is a wonderful thing.  The period, and the coma can be used as as much of a
crutch as ALL CAPS or italics; and I have never come across a good use for
those two things in anything... short of plays.
Paragraphs... now that's a flame I agree with, and I apologize for my former
posting's lack of paragraphs...  I tend to write like I would speak... problem
is that I don't speak in a formal tone... and the only way I could think of to
write that post was in... a formal tone... I guess I could've come up with a
character that did speak in a essay form, and pretend he was posting to this
group... but I like to be myself.  So... thank you for your replys, flames
and otherwise and I hope to hear more of them :)  Take care guys...
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(in a cemetary)
-This shall be our deaths, I swear it.
"You should not swear death on those to close to it.
-I swore on nothing.
"You swore on your father.
-Oh, is that where I'm standing.
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						Brian
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:28:43 GMT