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Re: Landspeeder
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:12:48 GMT
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(jreeve@cdmtech)Spamcake(.com)
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It's a joke. Lighten up. I posted to a lego newsgroup, not the 'school
of grammar' newsgroup. Why would anyone want to argue about grammar in a
lego forum?
I was being sarcastic in an effort to make a subtle point. These
'spellchecker' posts are kind of silly, don't you think?

Johannes Reevius, hoo nose how to spel.


John Reeve wrote:

Justin M. Kopp wrote:

John Reeve wrote:

Jasper Janssen wrote:

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:15:15 GMT, John Reeve <jreeve@cdmtech.com>
wrote:

1. The minifigs ride really high in the speeder, the windshield meets
them at their waste.
                 ^^^^^^^^

uh-huh.

Jasper

Yeah... the waste. That's the area between the chest and pelvis.

John Reeve

commonly spelled "waist"

no. waist is what you throw away. leftovers, stuff you don't need.
Doesn't anywon hear no anything about the english language?



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  Re: Landspeeder
 
(...) John, I correct spelling mistakes occasionally, for one thing because sometimes, it actually _does_ help people learn something, and for another, it damn well annoys the heck out of me when I try to read poorly-spelled, capitalized, formatted, (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Landspeeder
 
(...) no. waist is what you throw away. leftovers, stuff you don't need. Doesn't anywon hear no anything about the english language? (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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