On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:41:00 -0500, Steve Calvin
wrote:

Frogleg wrote:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:05:32 -0500, Steve Calvin
wrote:

Actually most browsers have a spell checker built in. But really, who
cares? If you can figure out what the person means in a world wide forum
then that should be good enough.

This is my *least* favorite argument for poor communication. We could
conceivably manage, probably not in print, with pointing and grunting.

My point was that people world wide participate in Usenet groups. For a
majority of them, english is not their primary language. They are to be
commended for making an attempt to communicate for foreign people in a
tongue not native to their land. All of this nitpicking over grammar,
sentence structure, etc is poppycock and only belongs in a University.

Allowances are always made for obvious non-English speakers. There
are, of course, newsgroups in many languages other than English, too.
"How gro putat?" isn't usually from a non English-speaking poster, but
a troll of some sort. As I posted, my own casual correspondence (and
posting) is far from error-free. I typed 'desert' for 'dessert' again
this week. What one wants to see, I think, is reasonable care. There
are very few posts nit-picking about spelling and the like in the
normal course of communication. The OP appears to be a nit-picker.
This discussion, indeed, belongs in another forum.