Here is my original e-mail. > > Geeezz. You people are a bunch of whiny babies. Here is a whiny baby response. > No, we just aren't communicating. Then.... more whining follows. > Why do you think that showing a half-dozen references for 'predatory' in > any way proves that 'preditory' is a word? Then I chime in with an answer: Because it was already said e-mails ago that it was a spelling mistake, yet you insist on spelling it wrong to make some point no one cares about. > If you've been following this at all, you know that we had a 'paper' > announced in which the word 'where' was used in the place of the word > 'were'. (*Hears sad violin music in the backround.*) >I mentioned that just running your 'paper' through a spell checker > would not catch a case where (heh) you misspelled a word in such a way that > it was still a word (just not the one you meant) and therefore .... <> It basically goes on to whine about some misspelling that's already been corrected. Then he explains that he hasn't gotten laid in years and that his mother beat him as a child. Then, after the sniveling and bitching, he finally finishes: > Should I invest anything in someone purporting to represent my interests who doesn't meet this > incredibly low standard? (Like his last date?) > If they don't care enough about what they're writing as > professional communicators to actually run a spell-checker, much less have a > human or twelve proofread their work, why should I give them any credence > whatsoever? The point is you shouldn't. Don't they make a 12 step program for people like you? Why do you insist on filling my mailbox with crap like this? Aaron