[INDOLOGY] avoiding insignificant corrections
Robert Goldman
rpg at berkeley.edu
Tue Aug 4 22:29:06 UTC 2015
Excellent observation, Dharmanik.
Dr. R. P. Goldman
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
The University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
Tel: 510-642-4089
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> On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear freinds,
>
> We are a scholalry community that stribes for precision. Email is a medium that lies somewhere betwen speech and proper writing, but is neither. It has carved out it's own speshial space as what might be caled a "casual written" form.
>
> It is painful to send of a mesage and see, just a second later, that theres a errror in it. However, for all the other readers on the list, it is also painful to receive supplementory posts correcting minor spelling errors in a previos post.
>
> I sugest that - inasmuch as we can bear it -- we just allow a normal level of typos to go past without comment, and that we take a lenient attitudde with eachothers posts.
>
> You'res,
> Dominic Wujastky
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