Oh geezuz gawd.
I'm reading an e-mail from the cousin, in which is this:
.....and to be viscously [franksolich: sic] attacked for spelling.....
She doesn't get it; she doesn't get it at all.
Normally, one doesn't expect a perfect knowledge of spelling from those for whom English is not their original language; one cuts such people some slack, lets it go.
But nadin's different; she consistently makes all of these allegations about knowing it all, being an expert on everything, and being intellectually superior to we dimwits.
Given such claims, one quite reasonably expects her to spell words correctly, too.
She doesn't understand that it's her overweening
arrogance, not her comical misspellings, that attracts critics. If she'd lay off her superiority complex, nobody'd care about her spelling.