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Subject: 
Re: Landspeeder
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:12:48 GMT
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jreeve@cdmtech.comNOSPAM
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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, (...) (28 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? (28 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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