spelling flame
<messaging> A Usenet posting ostentatiously correcting a previous
article's spelling, possibly as a way of casting scorn on the point the article
was trying to make, instead of actually responding to that point (compare
dictionary flame). Of course, people who are more than usually slovenly spellers
are prone to think *any* correction is a spelling flame. It's an amusing comment
on human nature that spelling flames themselves often contain spelling errors.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-22)
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