{not directed spicifically to Bjorn}
 
BF> I've always wondered where that abomination, seen quite a lot from
BF> people with less than average take on the English language, comes from.
 
Allow me to cite the 10th law of Dossche on internet usage ...
 
"When someones starts correcting your spelling or grammar in an on-line
discussion, it's like acknowledging defeat. You know you just won the argument"
 
It's like changing the topic in mid-discussion or turning the discussion
around, in Fido-lore also called "pulling a Witt".
 
At some point it was sort of decided, without being formally decided or
cemented into a "standard" or "best practice", not to involve ourselves anymore
into questioning someone's grammar or spelling if communication happened.
 
When someone starts correcting anyway, it is usually by an individual who is in
need of making a point, whatever the point or subject is.
 
When it involves spelling or grammar, I have evolved a lot in a world filled
with young people, and adults, from the USA and at moments I get really worried
by how they use language and their ability to come across with a meaning,
interpretation or a statement and still make sense on the other side.
 
 \%/@rd

--- D'Bridge 3.99