[sdiy] OT: grammar, spelling and communication

[Richard Wentk]

At 00:27 28/05/2005, Leslie Schwartz wrote:

>All fine and good but my expectations are that these communications will 
>be every day colloquial English with some technical jargon and 
>colloquialisms thrown in.

What he said. (Sic.) This is email. It's not the editorial office of a 
university publishing house.

People who know the details already know them, and people who don't aren't 
going to learn them from a list like this one, dedicated as it is to a 
rather different subject.

>Personally, I think if your asking for more than that your mind is not on 
>topic for this message board.

If this kind of thing matters to you, find a copy of the Chicago or Oxford 
Manual of Style and work through it.

Meanwhile, can we get back on topic now?

Richard