Jeffrey J. Nonken on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:32:04 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Tech jobs and politics, and IT diploma mills


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 14:14:29 -0400, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
>>That's "role," by the way.
>>
>>Or will I be proven wrong on that account too?
>lol, yeah ironicly in the public schools i could not skip 7th and
>8th grade
>because at every level in school (math, science,
>reading/comprehension) i was
>at highschool level in 6th grade, BUT spelling i was like 2nd, 3rd
>grade :)
>
>if it had not been for Appleworks in 3th grade and the fact my
>teacher let me
>type reports, i would have never gotten out!  I will always admire
>and give
>thanks to Mr Sein who let me do homework with my Apple ][e instead of
>demanding it be written.
>
>Oh well... back to the bump and grind here... at least i only have
>to deal
>with words like cout and std::alloc :)

Heh.

I don't normally correct spelling online any more, but this one seemed like it was starting to reproduce itself.

Yeah, I know other very smart people who just can't seem to get the hang of spelling. An online friend of my wife's -- who has a doctorate, I believe (the friend, not my wife) -- is affectionatly known as Mratin Globdreg for this very reason. :)


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