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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 18 April 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Semantics</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heather (a.k.a. Heide) wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Mr R. F. Hahn Esquire should know the difference between a mistake and an error.
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<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> </span>I was talking about a mistake.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">> </span>If it were an error, I wouldn't be able to see that it was wrong!!!!!!!!</p>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> ;-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Very well then. So the poor, often maligned esquire does know the difference, Heather dearest (and you wouldn't have dared to accuse the Kahuna thusly, for fragrant appalations can be taken more easily than they can be bestowed). But ... I say you inadvertently opened yet another container of creepy-crawlies in that, seen from this most humble perspective at least, the difference atween the twain has long begun to be blurred.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A "typo," as far as I know, is by origin not a "typing mistake" (although this would be logical) but a "typing
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">error</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">" -- or so I humply submit while bracing myself for another volley from the schoolmasters' and -mistresses' corner of the room.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Language learners regularly make "mistakes" before they understand the rules. Should those not also qualify as "errors"?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kumpelmenten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(with thanks for the honorary law degree)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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