Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00491)

Dear Krishtar
It makes you laugh really doesnt it, when someone tells you your language isnt up to par, but that same person needs a thesaurus and spell check to achieve what he criticises others for!
There is a tv show, inside the actors studio, and all guests are asked, "when you get to the pearly gates and God is there to meet you, what question would you ask god" Do they speak good English here?
Regards
Cass

krishtar <krishtar_a@brturbo.com.br> wrote:

Friend Mark
I use Windows 98 SE and the keyboard combinations also worked fine!!!
Itīs a little strange but it works fine on a 17' screen", I can now sit farer from the CRT screen to read and that is good.
You are really a PC expert.
Good hint.
I used to get worried about my English but, as most of I know from this language are remindings of my past life, I am a little proud to be able communicate in english.
Sometimes it gets rusty, but, little by little I get accustomed to think ina foreign language when writing.
Last time, Mark, I went into a language lesson it was 21 years ago and if Iwere dependent of what I can still remember from those borring blackboard-based classes I wouldīnt write a word!!!!

Regards

Krishtar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mark Hamilton Jr. 
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Theos-World spell-check criticism and a funny poem that illustrates the point of not criticizing



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 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
> 
> --
> John, webmaster
> www.GodLovesEveryone.org and www.MAZES.com
> 
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> 
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> Each maze has a different first name
> Each maze has a different unique solution
> 
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> 
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-- 
Mark Hamilton Jr.
waking.adept@gmail.com



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