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Or it was a typo or they were thinking of something else at the time or they were typing their response on their mobile or any other number of reasons other than "forgot how to spell" or "doesn't know how to spell".

I swear criticising someone's spelling is the last bastion in an argument/debate/discussion. When you haven't got anything else, attack their spelling.

I'm not saying that you're getting into an argument or debate but come on, you know what the guy meant.

I'm sorry that you feel this way, but being a CS student, ones know the horrors such simple spelling errors can unravel in codes, machine architecture and programming to name a few.

Correct spelling and grammar is what makes your OS function, the doses of medicine prescribed correct and it can sometimes be the difference between life and death.

I view it as the foundation for any thing important that you want to communicate.

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