A short polemic

Adok/Hugi

Does polemic have a singular or just a plural? I've always just seen it in plural! But who cares! It is good that I've written it in singular, because: if it's uncommon, then it's something new, something innovative. This is the topic of this shortie: creative spelling can increase the value of artistic articles. Id non est articles which should convey knowledge or show off how intelligent the author is, no, id est articles which form the majority of articles in such diskmags outside the coding corners, those which shall be documents for future generations, so that they can see what the computer freak society was like these days.

A quality article must be a well spelt article? I tended to believe in this, but now I say: no! Weird spelling may even increase the value of an article. If the article has no interesting contents, then spelling may make it worth reading. An analyzation of what the author writes wrong is cool, something people can do when they have nothing else to do, which in theory is a possible situation.

Adok/Hugi - 14 May 2000