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[jackofallgeeks]

Nine-hundred eighty-eight words. All I need is another three hundred words, minimum, and I'll be home free. This whole paper-writing thing isn't really all that bad. It's the research I can't stand. *wince* Well, not even that. I suppose, given a topic I was interested in and adequate resources, it wouldn't be so bad, either. Interest makes all the difference.
Perhapse I could have been an English Major, after all.

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[surichan.livejournal.com]

No, not so long as you continue to spell "adequate" that way.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Hush you.
Patronize me not.
On 'effing vowel...

[surichan.livejournal.com]

Note the "snarky" description of my icon. Realize that I am attempting, in my little way, to be cute and funny. Perhaps I should refrain from this in the future?

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, the 'hush you' was meant to be similarly playful banter.
Though, calling me on charges of spelling is a bit below the belt, in my estimate.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

With a "dark" icon, you jest?

How is it below the belt? If I spell something wrong, I want to know it!

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

"With a "dark" icon, you jest?"
Point well taken. But then, it wasn't wholly a jest.

"How is it below the belt?"
Agreed that I'd like to be informed of when I mess up, but the difference is that, for you, misspellings have always been the exception, not the rule. For a guy who not only has been a poor speller (and I do mean really poor) his entire life, and who takes more than a little pride in the fact that he's come a long way, it's still a bit more than a minor bard when someone points it out is such an abrupt manner.
-shrugs- Maybe I'm over-sensitive, and I apologize, but it's a bit of a sore spot, is all.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

It's not always the exception in my case. For the longest time, I was spelling "puerile" "peurile"...my mother caught me and corrected me. Anyway...if it's a touchy subject with you, I'll stop trying to make light of it.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs- "Puerile" and "peurile" are one thing -- one may pass it off as a typo. You're talking to a guy who in his worst years spelled so poorly that one could not even begin to guess what he was trying to say. I can't even remember any examples they were so bad -- I'll ask my mom nest time I see her and report back. Spelling tests were the bane of my existence all the way up through 6th grade -- I never learned those clever little spelling rules, and even now have little more grasp of them than 'i before e.' I have come a long way, though, and I attribute most of it to my reading and my love of words, generally.

As for your humor... -shrugs- I don't want you to hold yourself back. -smiles- Far be it for me to squelch humor, yes? And it really doesn't bother me all that badly, so much as it's rather pointing out a flaw I've been fighting, and a stupid flaw at that.  ^_^;;
So, uhm, right, don't silence yourself on account of me, and such.