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Should spelling matter?
r shud we just tok like wow playerz do?
Given that MobileRead is a place for intelligent, literate, well-read people, I would hope that we endeavor to write as we would wish to read. Firefox (or quite a few other Web browsers) does spell-checking. Remembering to capitalize the first word of a sentence (and the pronoun "I") isn't hard. We have all the time we want; there's no rush go get a post up in the next 30 seconds. We can take the time to look it over and make sure we have things right. There should be one place on the Web that doesn't look like an online game or a teenage text conversation.
As for "sifi" ... I've heard Forry Ackerman's "SciFi" used (generally used against SF by mundanes) many times, but not "sifi" or "SIFI".
And yeah, support Baen. I don't agree with their politics, but DRM trumps politics; they're one of the good guys. I spend more there than I do at the big box stores. They're certainly not news (check the date on the Baen Free Library!) but they deserve all the support we can give them.
Though I think David Weber took a flying leap over the shark a while ago; "Honor Harrington, Ruler of All Space and Time" is getting old. I still buy Weber's books, mind you; I just gripe more. I've gotten some wonderful things off Webscriptions, such as P.C. Hodgell's books (finally finding a home after Meisha Merlin sank), and the complete Lankhmar series, replacing some shabby pbooks.
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