On 06 Jul, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:05 PM 7/6/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: >On 06 Jul, 2004, at 09:43 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >> Just so I understand where you're coming from, are you really >> unwilling to call "uncooth" an incorrect spelling, here in the >> English-speaking world of the early twenty-first century? > >Yep.
That strikes me as relativism carried more than a shade too far. Is there anywhere you would draw this line? Is "qwerty" merely an unconventional spelling of "uncouth"?
Hi Aaron,
Sorry -- very bad reading on my part -- I missed your "un" on "unwilling." So yeah, the opposite of what I just said. In my view, "uncooth" is sufficiently nonstandard as to be an error.
But just to head this off at the pass -- yes, I do realize that a double-space after a period in flexible-width fonts is also nonstandard in traditional typography. But I think typography is -- or ought to be -- more amenable to rationality than spelling (cf. Mark Twain's _A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling_).
- Darcy
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