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Re: Alpha Team .
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 20 Mar 2002 05:05:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dustin Tucker writes:
> At 04:19, on Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> > In lugnet.general, Derek Robinson writes:
> > > Hi all I am 29 years old and I was wondering if I make a lego alpha team
> > > prodect ?? would that be a lil wierd ?? Becuse I liek the ships. and • figures
> > :)
> >
> > If you make a lego alpha team PRODECT that might be copyright infringement.
> > Building a Lego alpha team product should be fine though.
> > I think if you LIEK ships, it is a LIL WIERD. However I think if you like • the
> > ships that is not a little weird at all.
> >
> > Serious question is English your first language? After all there are adult
> > Lego fans in many countries.
> >
> > -Mike Petrucelli
> > (sorry the grammer police are out in force tonite ;-)
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> Well, good, but really, you're questioning his spelling. (Sure, his
> grammar's bad, but you were just pointing out his spelling errors). That
> said, I find it horribly amusing that you misspelled "grammar" and wrote
> "tonite" instead of "tonight"
Well, as the ;-) was meant to indicate that the errors in the last "thought"
(not really a sentence, mind you) were intentional.
> but took Derek to town on "lil." Further,
> "Serious question is English your first language." is not a complete
> sentence.
Well that was definitely as case of "open mouth insert foot here."
> I think your post could have used a couple more commas, but
> that may just be personal preference. Finally, the last line of your
> post could use a capital; I'm fairly certain there should be a comma
> between "sorry" and "the"; assuming ";-)" is a smilie, you need to
> close the parenthetical remark; and you should have a period somewhere
> in there to end the sentence.
>
> Anyway, this is my first post here, though I've been
> lruking • :-)
> for a
> little bit, but this sort of thing really bothers me. If you're going to
> make fun of someone's spelling or grammar, you better be sure your post
> is flawless.
Yes, I succeeded in "burning" myself.
-Mike Petrucelli (who never professed to be perfect)
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| (...) Well, good, but really, you're questioning his spelling. (Sure, his grammar's bad, but you were just pointing out his spelling errors). That said, I find it horribly amusing that you misspelled "grammar" and wrote "tonite" instead of "tonight" (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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