Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00474)

Anand wrote:
<< I took efforts to tell how to write better messages by checking them 
in Word program and you criticized me. I don't think it is fair. >>

Due ewe no watt won of the problems is with your advice?

One of the problems with your strategy is that Word's spell checker is 
that it is VERY HARD for a a person whose native language is not English 
to figure out in many cases. And in many cases, they might be told that 
their letter is perfectly spelled, yet there would be errors that would 
be recognizable to someone who knows the language better. The first 
sentence of my reply has a number of misspellings, but every misspelled 
word is actually correctly spelled, in a different context.

There are so many words that Word does not correct, so even if a person 
did use it, you might criticize them for not using it, even if they did. 
And Word's "grammar" rules are very hard to understand, even for English 
speakers. For example, I'm always writing in "passive tense", something 
that Word constantly criticizes me for.

In any case, I do not believe that we should be criticizing each other's 
grammar. I'm reminded of the story of the grandmother who received a 
letter from her granddaughter. The grandmother corrected all the errors 
in the child's letter and sent it back to her so that she could learn to 
write better.

Can you guess what happened next?

The granddaughter never wrote to her grandmother again.

Communication should be accepted in the spirit in which it is given.

Here's a poem in which EVERY word is spelled correctly according to the 
dictionary:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it two say,
Weather eye and wring oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

-Sauce unknown

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