<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Oh, yes, I did....... but HE didn't! He actually spelled it "acedemic" on the press release!<br /><br />I am frequently calling up the student newspaper to point out "peaked his curiosity" (instead of "piqued") and other such errors, too. (Pretty pathetic for a bunch of grads from the vaunted Peabody School of Journalism!) <br /> Yes, language is always "evolving"; but misuses are misuses,* and with them dies the subtlety of meaning which makes a language articulate. The disdain for precise speaking which we encounter among so many souls today is a symptom of a wider disdain of precision, IMHO, and with that goes a society's collapse. (So, yes, it DOES matter!)<br /><br />Thumpe<br /> <br /> <br />* I suspect that the crowd that condones sloppy word usage the same bunch encouraging everyone to quit bathing, so that we will all
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">I know you meant to say "academic", too... :-)<div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Dec 05, 2012, at 20:50 , Euphonious Thumpe <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="font-family:Optima;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">A few years ago, the head of the entire University of Georgia system, in response to criticism claiming that the system put more emphasis on sports than learning, sent a memo out reading: "Though we at the University of Georgia love our athletic program, we will never allow it to stand in the way of acedemic excellence."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>(Or something to that affect!)*<br><br>Thumpe<br><br>*Yes, I know that should have read
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