In a message dated 11/22/2002 3:45:26 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Doug wrote: > I suggest a better way to deal with this kind of behavior is to ignore it > > completely, excepting extreme cases. Now my English isn't that good. But somehow I feel that use of excepting is wrong here? I'd have used exempting or something else entirely but never excepting. Althought the meaning is correct, it somehow doesn't look right to me. Anyone? Sonja :o) >> It may have been the gremlin that lives in the spellchecker. --except in extreme cases-- makes complete sense/ --exceptin extreme cases-- is easy for a human to correct. But it is beyond the mental capacity of a spellchecker. --excepting extreme cases-- is the only way it nose hoot correct therefor. William Taylor -------------------- ...knows how to correct the error _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
