Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens'
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:53:22 -0800

You're right.  This is the sort of language-mangling up with which we should not put...

Paul
P.S.  You may just be ranting, but I agree with you irregardless ;-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ray Moth [mailto:ray_moth@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 1:35 AM
To: LUG
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - how to spell 'lens'

(edited for effect)
And what about the spelling of "its", often miss-spelled "it's"?
Another annoyance is the split infinitive.
Then there are tautologies like "very unique".
There really ought to be a society for the prevention of language
abuse. Grrrrr!