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spelling flame
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. [Usenet] A posting ostentatiously correcting a previous article's
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spelling as a way of casting scorn on the point the article was trying to
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make, instead of actually responding to that point (compare dictionary flame
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). Of course, people who are more than usually slovenly spellers are prone
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to think any correction is a spelling flame. It's an amusing comment on
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human nature that spelling flames themselves often contain spelling errors.
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