Re: Bike buying dilemma

Champ wrote:
[1] I've just read Bill Bryson's book on Shakespeare [2] - the bard
was quite happy to spell the same word two different ways in the same
sentence, and used around a dozen different spellings for his own
name.

several hundred years later, most of the population can read and write,
we have dictionaries and standard orthography rules, and of course many
of these rules are ignored to a greater or lesser extent by those on the
cutting edge of the artistic avant-garde of our *own* day for stylistic
effect, since they are creative types and want to stand out and dissonate.
they do this by breaking the rules that apply ordinarily, so as to chafe
and elicit a response.
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