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"Loki" wrote in message news:95371384143071929.NC-
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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. |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:07:37 +0000, Sherwin Dubren wrote:
Well Jack, I was just waiting for some wise ass ^^^^^^^^ VERY 'professional', Sherwin. Has it ever occurred to you that, due to the international appeal of the Internet, not everyone who posts here has English as their native tongue? Some speak English as their second or third language and the intricacies of its spelling rules is lost on them. -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 02:44:00 up 39 days, 3:26, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.32 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 15:36:15 +0000, Anne wrote:
I am not aware of any browsers that have a spell check feature and I expect yours doesn't either. Pan (for Linux) does. Bill -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 02:49:00 up 39 days, 3:31, 5 users, load average: 0.29, 0.27, 0.30 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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First of all, I wonder about someone who hides behind the name
anonymous. Secondly, I lived abroad for several years studying the language in that country, so I know what it means to try and communicate in your second language. Although I never did it while living abroad, if I wrote a letter to the newspapers, etc., I would have had one of my native friends check my language. Despite all that, I think that many of these postings are coming from English speaking countries and the issue is more that they were probably never properly trained to spell. However, these people do know enough to compose a message and send it to a news group. All they have to do is invoke a spell checker. You can bet if these people are adding up their bills or balancing their checking accounts, they use a calculator to be sure everything is correct, if their arithmetic is on the weak side. Most of the messages on the newsgroups are pretty good about spelling, and an occasional error is not a problem. However, some of the messages I see are atrocious, and makes you wonder how some of these people made it past the second grade. If there weren't these nice tools like spell checkers available, I would say this is something we have to accept, but that is not the case. The sad thing is that most of these spelling offenders are not even aware that they are making these mistakes. Sherwin Dubren Anonymous wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:07:37 +0000, Sherwin Dubren wrote: Well Jack, I was just waiting for some wise ass ^^^^^^^^ VERY 'professional', Sherwin. Has it ever occurred to you that, due to the international appeal of the Internet, not everyone who posts here has English as their native tongue? Some speak English as their second or third language and the intricacies of its spelling rules is lost on them. All the more reason to invoke an automated spelling check. -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 02:44:00 up 39 days, 3:26, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.32 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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Sherwin Dubren top-posted in message
... [snip] The sad thing is that most of these spelling offenders are not even aware that they are making these mistakes. [snip] Never mistake sloth for stupidity; the two are mutually exclusive. The Ranger PS: Reset your line-wrap to 66 [characters]; it'll help in delivering your message without having to take extra steps during the editing phase for future posters. |
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"Steve Calvin" wrote in message ... [snip] But really, who cares? Repressed grammarians? Editors in Real Life® and Fantasy? Litterateur? Those that appreciate clarity in thought and verse when presented it as a form of communcation in a newsgroup? If you can figure out what the person means in a world wide forum then that should be good enough. This is a weak arguement used to support terrible habits. For those that don't have English as a second language, there /is/ no excuse (and that's allowing for the differences in English vs. American spellings as well as any localizated terms). Bad spelling, just like poor writing and speaking, are habits that should be avoided and the only way of doing that is breaking them prior posting a message for the world to see. If you can't take the time to reduce the simple errors (and I'm not talking latin spellings or scientific terms that work at tangling tongue and fingers alike), then the message will be viewed as less important than one that is [mostly] error-free by someone that took a few extra seconds to check it. This "extra time" and effort work to distill a rambling thought AND tighten missed or off comments. And written communications could always use more-specific meanings; it's not like vocalization where you have extra hints at what the person is saying. The Ranger ObJalapeños: Both my plants are STILL producing peppers! They're slightly more mild and if I let them grow too large they get woody but they're fine in stews! |
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Not everyone active in this newsgroup has the (spell check) option.
Why keep this ridiculous thread that didn't even belong in this newsgroup going? Seems to me that only the folks that want to use this forum as a chat-room are responding so to not let it die. "Sherwin Dubren" wrote in message ... First of all, I wonder about someone who hides behind the name anonymous. Secondly, I lived abroad for several years studying the language in that country, so I know what it means to try and communicate in your second language. Although I never did it while living abroad, if I wrote a letter to the newspapers, etc., I would have had one of my native friends check my language. Despite all that, I think that many of these postings are coming from English speaking countries and the issue is more that they were probably never properly trained to spell. However, these people do know enough to compose a message and send it to a news group. All they have to do is invoke a spell checker. You can bet if these people are adding up their bills or balancing their checking accounts, they use a calculator to be sure everything is correct, if their arithmetic is on the weak side. Most of the messages on the newsgroups are pretty good about spelling, and an occasional error is not a problem. However, some of the messages I see are atrocious, and makes you wonder how some of these people made it past the second grade. If there weren't these nice tools like spell checkers available, I would say this is something we have to accept, but that is not the case. The sad thing is that most of these spelling offenders are not even aware that they are making these mistakes. Sherwin Dubren Anonymous wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:07:37 +0000, Sherwin Dubren wrote: Well Jack, I was just waiting for some wise ass ^^^^^^^^ VERY 'professional', Sherwin. Has it ever occurred to you that, due to the international appeal of the Internet, not everyone who posts here has English as their native tongue? Some speak English as their second or third language and the intricacies of its spelling rules is lost on them. All the more reason to invoke an automated spelling check. -- http://cannaday.us (genealogy) http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening) Uptimes below for the machines that created / host these sites. 02:44:00 up 39 days, 3:26, 5 users, load average: 0.15, 0.27, 0.32 21:58:52 up 34 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 |
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The Ranger wrote: ................................... Never mistake sloth for stupidity; the two are mutually exclusive. ................................... Well, I don't understand that at all. Steve |
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