Anthony said: Actually, I don't no how the beetles spelt it. I just rote down watt I've herd on the recording. I reply: Maybe your intentional mis-spellings are intended to make it look as if your unintentional ones were intentional. If they're intended to be funny, I'd say that the funniness of that game was questionable at its outset, but certainly any funniness that it initially had has worn off long before now. Anthony continues: The miss-spellings are mine. Perhaps you mist the point. You are arguing with a joke. I reply: If there's a point to your postings, I indeed must have missed it, but it's hardly news to me that I've been replying to a joke. That was evident a long time ago. Anthony continues: Buy the weigh, in explaining what was so amusing -- "mis- spellings weren't inentional" -- you had two misspellings. I reply: "Mis-spelling" isn't incorrect. Choices involving hyphens aren't spelling issues, though maybe they're style issues. The hyphen makes sense for clarity in that word. Also, I often use hyphens in other situations where not everyone does, because it clarifies that the 2 words joined by the hyphen are being used to make what amounts to a different word. You could also say that there's a style convention that says that I shouldn't capitalize the names of voting systems & criteria. But doing so adds clarity by identifying them as names. As for leaving the 1st "t" out of "unintentional", that's different from your mis-spelling of hilarious, absurdum, & nauseam. The difference is that you believed your spelling of those words, while it's obvious that the missing "t" in "unintentional" was a typo, not a true spelling error. Quite aside from that, I said twice that I of course make spelling errors, as do most people. As I said before, what made your spelling errors so funny was their context. It's entertaining when someone who finds the discussion hilarious can't spell it, and when someone tries to be authoritative about reductio ad absurdum, but can't spell it. Anthony continues: And I sea you've replied yet again to my posting of too weaks ago. I reply: Actually no, that was the 1st time that I'd replied to that message. As I said in my message, I wasn't going to reply (hence the delay), but then it occurred to me that someone might believe the version of things that you presented. Anthony continues: Time to listen to Mother Mery's werds of wisdum again: "Let it be." I reply: Does that mean that you're going to let it be, or are you just one of those asses who quote wisdom that they don't abide by? Oh that's right, you're joking. And of course that's true of all these postings of yours. If you want to waste space in the archives and in members' mailboxes in that way, no one will prevent you. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
