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Perchprism  
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 More options Apr 26 1999, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
From: perchpr...@aol.com (Perchprism)
Date: 1999/04/26
Subject: Re: "Ms." means "Miss"

Skitt wrote:
>From: "Skitt" <sk...@i.am>
>Date: 4/26/99 5:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <7g2m81$oq...@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>

>Perchprism <perchpr...@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:19990425214347.11896.00001681@ng33.aol.com...

>> This group will either drive you not care or drive you to excrutiating
>> self-conciousness or drive you to seek a convention and stick to it,
>eh?

>Tee-hee. I hope you take your slipups better than I do mine.

You've entered my vocabulary: Skitt's Law, a corollary of Murphy's Law,
variously expressed as "any post correcting an error in  another post will
contain at least one error itself" or "the likelihood of an error in a post is
directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster." The
effect is, of course, magnified a hundredfold if the post is in reply to Skitt
himself.

Perchprism
(Southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia, USA)


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