I agree with you, Moose, about spelling mistakes by you, Ken or me.
But I take emails and posts to this sort of list as colloquial in
style and content (I know, sometimes it is too much so). Some on
this List no doubt suffer from mild dyslexia which provides further
excuse. Your parody of a quote illustrates it elegantly: he did not
say it, he wrote it.
However, a blog is a piece of published material, presumably
carefully considered and checked. As such it is subject, in my
little head to extra scrutiny; mine was an observation and a little
dig, but it was also intended to point out to anyone else who read it
that there was a mistake: "forego" means to go before; "forgo" means
to go without. Some of our number might not have realised that there
is a difference.
And I rather fancy a "misteak" as it sounds rather tasty ... :-) But
your response was as polite as a polite person on polite day feeling
more than normally polite: you know I make mistakes, and not only of
spelling.
Chris
On 13 May 2007, at 10:36, Moose wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> He certainly states what needs to be stated. My students laugh at my
>> C*non S70 in comparison to their tiny gizmos, but the quality is far
>> superior.
>>
>> But did he have to write "forego" when he meant "forgo"?
>>
> Same reason I misspell things and AG writes aweful when he means
> awful,
> complete opposites, yet we know from context what he means. Never made
> an error of spelling or usage?
>
> "I disagree strongly with what he says, but I will defend to the point
> of minor effort his right to make a little misteak in saying it!"
>
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