A silly digression on nits and how to pick them.

Dave Tallman · 14 Aug 2008, 11:40 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:40:25 -0600
Subject: (urth) A silly digression on nits and how to pick them.
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Kieran Mullen wrote:
> Mr. Millman may have been a bit exasperated in his corrections,  
> but they were short and to the point.  I learned something from them.   
> We should aspire to use these unfamiliar words correctly.
>   
As the corrected poster, I would like to say that I didn't mind too 
much. I would rather have had feedback on the substance of my post, but 
it was an interesting response anyway and it showed me that someone was 
reading and paying attention. I do attempt to use words correctly and 
the gender-neutral use of "inhumi" was a bit of a grammatical stretch.

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