Dear pedantic curmudgeon,
Thank you for upholding the standards of spelling and grammar.  I always 
find such errors jarring and have an inclination to correct them, but 
not the time.
Meli Diamanti

Tim Thompson wrote:

> Yargh! I feel like one of those crusty old curmudgeons, at least one 
> of which shows up on everyone's dissertation committee, but in the 
> interest of students and the impressionable young that might be on 
> this list, I'm compelled to point out:
>
> Amy, "impact" is not a verb. I know the native speaker is always right 
> (Dr. Hardaman beat it into my brain) but we don't have to be natives 
> of the community of illiteracy.
>
> Marcy, the expression is not ". . . fair so well . . ." but " . . . 
> fare so well . . .", as in "wayfaring" or traveling.
>
> Academic and bureaucratic gobbledy gook is bad enough, but can't we 
> maintain some devotion to clear writing?
>
> Tim T.
> pedantic curmudgeon
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