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davidl@uclink.berkeley.edu (David Lovell) wrote:
>  
>  skills.  This last group of people should never get the
>  impression, however, that spelling is not important and
>  because people tend to get the "jist" of what they're saying
>  that that's all that's necessary.  With respect to this
>  particular dialogue, I don't think it is a case of spelling
>  errors at all.  I think it would be difficult to misspell
>  "libel" as "liable", since they are pronounced differently.  I
>  think it has more to do with the fact that people have heard
>  the word before but not listened very carefully, that the
>  common word "liable" has a meaning that is in fact related,
>  and they just assume this must be the proper word.
>  

I couldn't resist...  My dictionary doesn't have the word "jist."  It does, 
however, have "gist."  But I'm certain you must mean "jist" because you 
certainly wouldn't have misspelled it; not in a posting such as this!  What 
the heck is a jist?

	:-)

Charles.
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