Just so we understand each other

To all friends, acquaintances and strangers who've ever written me an e-mail and appended a message to the effect of, "Please forgive all my hideous typos/grammatical flubs/embarrassing word choices, I was writing fast/didn't spell-check/had one too many bourbons before sitting down to write," I give you this -- so that you may never fear writing again.

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[John Stanforth]

Haha! You are far more forgiving than I. Of course, I'm not an editor either, so being neurotically grammatic isn't a job, it's a probably-clinical adventure.

Now, my own grammar is far from infallible, and I'm not even talking about a few misspelled words, or the typical "me and him said" syntax. But there's some magic threshhold below which too many emails these days become teeth-grinding, claustrophobia-inducing, WTF-is-this-person-trying-to-say mental puzzles far beyond the limits of my time, patience, and crytographic skills.

So, inversely, I'll usually -only- read these emails patiently if my job depends on it. ;-)