RE: the old insure ensure assure

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

I guess the irony and absurdity of my message(s) were a little too
subtle for you (and Al), huh?

Some hints: "heck", "gonna", "ain't", "don't say 'nothin''"--all are
colloquial and totally unacceptable in professional writing.

In case you still don't get what I am getting at, I'll speak plainly: I
too support Kevin's sentiments. Perhaps if you go back and read my
messages with that in mind, you'll have an "ah-ha! moment" (aka "an
epiphany"). I love ah-ha moments, don't you?

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:38 PM
To: Leonard C. Porrello; McLauchlan, Kevin; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: the old insure ensure assure

Leonard C. Porrello wrote:
 
> What the heck, Kevin?! I'm just gonna ignore that. If you ain't got
> nothin' good to say, don't say nothin' at all.

So, are you upset by Kevin's message because: 

-- you're one of those who can't be bothered to learn the difference
between ensure and insure?
-- you're one of the panderers at a dictionary organization?
-- you leave tools out in the rain and aren't ashamed?

You know what they say about the shoe that fits. :-)

FWIW, and just in case anybody cares, my reaction to the below rant was
"Bravo, Kevin!" 
 
> Dontcha just love how the American dictionaries seem so eager to bow
> down to the lowest common denominator.  Once again, we seek the
> subtraction of meaning and value from a perfectly good word.  Well, we
> don't, but the idiots (who can't be bothered to learn the nearby,
simple
> word that means what they actually want to say) are inordinately
pleased
> with themselves when they destroy yet-another word and spread the
> dumming ever-further (or is that farther?... doesn't matter, they'll
> erase the distinction soon enough).
> 
> I have the same respect for those people - and for their panderers at
> the dictionary organizations - as I do for people who leave a new tool
> out in the rain to rust, and then don't even have the grace to be
> ashamed, because it wasn't so much an oversight as a "don't give a
f..."
> I'll stop now.

Richard
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