Spelling Anti-Flame [was: Accents]

From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Wed Sep 20 1995 - 13:03:15 EDT


On 20 Sep 1995, Karen Pitts wrote:

> [...] This
> means that we do lots of things to reinforce Greek. Speaking (how do you
> speak if you don't pay attention to accents? - but only using stresses, I
> wouldn't know how to do pitches), writing on white boards, translating English
> to Greek, coming up with silly pneumonics to remember vocab and paradigms.
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^
> For this approach, we need to know accents.

Please understand that this is in no way a flame. But the above was just
too wonderful to let pass.

Especially given the context, this has to stand as probably the most
delightful and all round coolest typo/spelling "error" that I've come
across.

On an otherwise dreary Weds afternoon in Vermont,
N



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