I agree... these variant spellings have been tried before and they land as insulting and distancing to the very people we would like to reach.
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Wade T.Smith
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 1:38 PM
To: Church of Virus
Subject: Re: virus: FAQ: version 1.0
And I put in my two cents here and say, again- stop coining words. It's juvenile unless it's not. In this case, IMHO, it is. 'Phat' will die an ignominious death if it hasn't already and so should 'phaith'. Phooey.