Well. I grant that the article makes a good point, but I hate to give up the right to correct. Even if not publicly, at least in my own mind. Words are important, they have power, they are the means by which we create so many things.

I deplore the current trend of abbreviating and phoneticizing so many words on our phones and in our advertisements. How do we expect the upcoming generations not only to be able to spell correctly but to recognize the fact that communication is vital, that there is formal language and there is casual language?

On the other hand, I was humbled one night on a number of emails, even though it ended up being hilarious. See, a friend in New Mexico and I were in a leisurely conversation about words and their usage and we congratulated ourselves on our attention to detail.

We wrote back and forth perhaps four times - and each time we each made a mistake! We finally agreed to give it up and say good night.