> it is the equivalent of not drooling from your mouth when speaking. No, it is not. Not everyone is hot on their written english. I'm sure if this was a fund

> it is the equivalent of not drooling from your mouth when speaking. No, it is not. Not everyone is hot on their written english. I'm sure if this was a fundamental of the HN community, the HN team would have referred to it in the guidelines - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I'll repeat what I said above, its about the value in what you say, not how you word/spell it.