On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:58:25 GMT, Default User
> wrote:

>Robert Klute wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:27:50 GMT, Default User
>> > wrote:
>
>> >There's a difference. If I say, "the correct form of possessive is
>> >it's," then you have a perfect right to point out the error. Just having
>> >made a grammatical or spelling error in a post is not a reason to
>> >generate such a response. These posts aren't school papers, and you
>> >aren't a teacher.
>>
>> You is correct, I is a mathematician.
>
>How can I be correct about you being a mathematician?

Cute, but no less cute and flippant than my reply to your statement that
I am not a teacher. I do not claim to be a teacher, although I was an
instructor at the local community college for a couple of years.

>
>> As an aside, my response was a
>> response to a response about a response with an errant apostrophe, not
>> the reponse to the response with missing e.
>
>Immaterial, as I replied only to the content of the post at hand.

I am also not an English major and I make my fair share of grammatical
errors. Still, it irks me when technical people blow off imprecise use
of the language. I must admit the errors here are extremely mild
compared to what I see in my son's generation - where IM fonetik
spelling, cliquish acronyms, and emoticons rule.