From: Small Grey 
To: Jim Harris (JIM.HARRIS@xx.STATE.xx.US)
Cc: Staff@attrition.org
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:14:38 -0400
Subject: Re: I like your philosophy, but ...

Jim Harris [JIM.HARRIS@xx.STATE.xx.US]
 staggered from the flesh-eating rain and gurgled:

: .. in order to present a more professional image, you just 
  ^^
  |
  +---> improper ellipsis; an ellipsis 
        should be spaced like so: ". . ."

  We're not trying to put on professional airs, but misspelled
words and bad grammar do grate us so.

: might want to run a spell / grammar checker on your stuff.  They 
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                         ^^^^
                           |                                  |
                           |   "These" <----------------------+
                           |
                           +-----> "spell-checker and
                                    grammar-checker"

: would have caught, for example, the two errors in one sentence on 
  ^^^^^
      |
      +----------------------> "might" 

  Error of logic: running a spell-checker and grammar-checker 
doesn't always preclude an error of spelling and grammar.

: your home page in "... our independance and thus adversly affect 
                     ^^^
                     |
                     +---> improper ellipsis, see above.

: the neutrality ...".
                 ^^^^^
                 |   |
                 |   +--> The period belongs inside the quotation mark.
                 |
                 +--> improper ellipsis, see above.
Which page?

Thanks for the professional advice,

munge

PS- I don't pretend to adhere to these standards in email.  I felt 
    you were fair game since you offered professional advice for 
    grammar and spelling usage ;-)

-- 
"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"