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echo: writing
to: BARBARA SHAFFERMAN
from: CURTIS JOHNSON
date: 1998-05-11 08:35:00
subject: PROFANITY

 -=> Quoting BARBARA SHAFFERMAN to CURTIS JOHNSON <=-
 BS> A spell checker, on the other hand, definitely has value. I'm a really
 BS> good speller and a pretty decent typist. Yet I'm amazed at the typos 
 BS> that my spell checker picks up that have slipped past my proofreading.
 BS> Maybe 3 or 4 every 2,000 words.
	My curse as late has been missed words--neither grammar nor
 spelling checker is likely to catch that.
 
 CJ> You'd be surprised. (Now, was that a cliche or not?  It certainly is
 CJ> a catch-phrase, but catch-phrases are not necessarily cliches.  In a
 CJ> piece of prose
 BS> Definitely a catch-phrase, not a cliche. When you're reading dialog, I
 BS> think you can almost visualize a character's tone of voice with
 BS> phrases  like "You'd be surprised".
	But in a piece of nonfiction prose, the phrase should certainly 
 be reworked, I'd think.
... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (S)lap nearest innocent bystander.
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