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messaging> A
Usenet posting ostentatiously correcting a
previous article's spelling, possibly as a way of casting
scorn on the point the article was trying to make, instead of
actually responding to that point (compare {dictionary
flame}). Of course, people who are more than usually slovenly
spellers are prone to think *any* correction is a spelling
flame. It's an amusing comment on human nature that spelling
flames themselves often contain spelling errors.
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(1994-11-22)