>Haven't noticed, really. It's my decade-long habit to respond to the message, not to the author of the message. Most of the time I'm not really looking who wrote it. The exceptions are a few people who, IMO, can't take a joke... and you obviously aren't amongh them, or else we wouldn't have this conversation at all.
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>English spelling (and grammar in general) is my pet peeve since the age of ten, when I started learning English. You can't imagine what sort of cultural shock it is to enconuter an alphabet which doesn't make any sense to someone used to a completely phonetic alphabet (actually, two phonetic alphabets). There are no real rules to reading, and the writing accuracy can only be achieved by learning the whole dictionary. And the professor who taught me was very adamant at correcting my mistakes, so I had to train myself to spell things correctly.
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>I also had some nasty experience in this area when I was working in Hungary, and my software had to issue messages and have labels and reports in a language that I just learned. There were numerous builds dedicated to just grammar or style.
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>And then I came here... seeing that the rules are much more lax than I was taught to... and, why the {beep} had I strained so much? Half of it was practically for nothing... nobody cares here :).

If the library still has it, I think you would enjoy "Strictly Speaking" by Edwin Newman. I don't remember his talking too much about spelling, but he certainly has flair when it comes to describing the public misuse of the language by those who "ought" to know better.