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Subject:RE: the old insure ensure assure From:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> To:<salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:09:11 -0800
I wasn't quite that obscure, was I? If so, just call me "Michael of Northgate".
Leonard
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From: techwr-l-bounces+leonard -dot- porrello=soleratec -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+leonard -dot- porrello=soleratec -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Chris Morton
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Subject: Re: the old insure ensure assure
Ãis boc is dan Michelis of Northgate / ywrite an englis of his oÈene hand.
Ãet hatte: Ayenbyte of inwyt.
> Chris
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Leonard C. Porrello <
Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> I guess the irony and absurdity of my message(s) were a little too
> subtle for you (and Al), huh?
>
> Some hints: "heck", "gonna", "ain't", "don't say 'nothin''"--all are
> colloquial and totally unacceptable in professional writing.
>
> In case you still don't get what I am getting at, I'll speak plainly: I
> too support Kevin's sentiments. Perhaps if you go back and read my
> messages with that in mind, you'll have an "ah-ha! moment" (aka "an
> epiphany"). I love ah-ha moments, don't you?
>
> Leonard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:38 PM
> To: Leonard C. Porrello; McLauchlan, Kevin; TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: the old insure ensure assure
>
> Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
>
> > What the heck, Kevin?! I'm just gonna ignore that. If you ain't got
> > nothin' good to say, don't say nothin' at all.
>
> So, are you upset by Kevin's message because:
>
> -- you're one of those who can't be bothered to learn the difference
> between ensure and insure?
> -- you're one of the panderers at a dictionary organization?
> -- you leave tools out in the rain and aren't ashamed?
>
> You know what they say about the shoe that fits. :-)
>
> FWIW, and just in case anybody cares, my reaction to the below rant was
> "Bravo, Kevin!"
>
> > Dontcha just love how the American dictionaries seem so eager to bow
> > down to the lowest common denominator. Once again, we seek the
> > subtraction of meaning and value from a perfectly good word. Well, we
> > don't, but the idiots (who can't be bothered to learn the nearby,
> simple
> > word that means what they actually want to say) are inordinately
> pleased
> > with themselves when they destroy yet-another word and spread the
> > dumming ever-further (or is that farther?... doesn't matter, they'll
> > erase the distinction soon enough).
> >
> > I have the same respect for those people - and for their panderers at
> > the dictionary organizations - as I do for people who leave a new tool
> > out in the rain to rust, and then don't even have the grace to be
> > ashamed, because it wasn't so much an oversight as a "don't give a
> f..."
> > I'll stop now.
>
> Richard
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