[Acrylic-bob]

We all make mistakes from time to time. I know that I seem to make more than my fair share and I am grateful to members for being considerate enough to point these lapses out to me when they occur.

Perhaps I am woefully behind the times in thinking that correct spelling matters. As a child I was always taught that correct spelling gave an indication of the level of respect in which I held the person I was writing to. To mispell a word through ignorance of the correct spelling was one thing, but mispelling a word because you could not be bothered to take the time to correct yourself displayed a level of contempt that was almost as bad as slapping someone in the face.

As to the accusations of "empty rhetoric" and "clever wordy passage with little or no point", that is a matter of opinion and one which garinda is as entitled to hold and express as the rest of us. It is odd though that his criticism does not appear to extend to his own pointless, spiteful and sometimes offensive comments and frequent thread wanderings.