Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Righto
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:37:13 -0500

2000-02-19-12:10:56 Austin Franklin:

[somebody not identified in Austin's quirky quoting style -- MJ? -- said:]
> "Lense" is an alternate spelling for "lens" not among non-Americans but
> only among non-spellers, whose numbers are also legion.

> [Austin] Why the need to be insulting?

Oh, c'mon.  The sentence quoted gets style points for its snappy
pithiness;  it's not in the same insultingness league as the extended
"anybody who could possibly like Eggleston's work is a big stinky
poo-head" contributions.