Re: White Coat Day

In article <f5oa40$5uu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Murray Arnow <arnow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:
blmblm wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:

[ snip ]

your posts appear to be a kind of free verse -- but
I'm really curious about whether this is deliberate on your part,
or an artifact of your newsreader [...]

It's not an artifact.
[...]

Others should see the same,

Funny,
how "artefact"
has changed not only its meaning
but even

[ snip ]

You
are
reading
too
much
in a
echo
of a
typo,

Jan

It's not a typo. This is taking anti-Americanism too far. As to your
posts' appearances, Jan, just tell these folks that you require to set
your monitor to a low resolution so the fonts are large and easier to read
and results in line-widths less than the more common 72-78
character-widths.

Confirmed: Not a typo. The corrections up to this point,
however, did send me scurrying to the nearest [1] dictionary,
wondering whether I was misusing the word. To my relief,
the online Merriam-Webster seems to indicate that I'm not,
and that I'm spelling it correctly for a writer of US English.

I suppose speakers of UK English might regard all of these
US-versus-UK spelling variants as simple mistakes. From my
perspective, use of the UK versions by writers in the US
is pretentious affectation [2] which I prefer to avoid.

But the post to which I'm replying makes it clearer what the
intent in. ("Ouch"?)

[1] "Nearest" here means the online dictionary easiest to access,
as opposed to the hardcopy dictionary in the other room. Hm.

[2] Put it down to encountering one too many pretentious
office buildings named "[whatever] Centre". Let me see if
I've got this right ....

We
don't
spell
it
that
way
in
this
country.

(Wow, that was surprisingly difficult to do.)

(Franke, is this a good first step toward being less sniveling?)

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