Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00485)

The way people write gives them character; it gives you something you
can associate them with. Some people know English quite well and have
deplorable spelling. But as long as the message is still legible, I
don't care.

-Mark H.

On Apr 11, 2005 5:13 PM, John <GodLovesEveryone.org@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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-- 
Mark Hamilton Jr.
waking.adept@gmail.com