Agreed. I too have observed a few mails with major errors in spellings. While we are using screen readers, we don’t usually read the word letter by letter, hence our focus does not go to the spelling of a word.
Yes, I fully understand that many of you folks haven’t got chance of doing studies in English medium schools, and that’s not at all a problem, neither that is any criteria of judging your capabilities. In fact, a lot of you folks are scholars and experts in your respective areas, and I’m proud for that. Sometimes, incorrect spellings or grammar makes your e-mail ineffective to an extent that the intended recipient does not notice it that warmly, hence you remain destitute from the right answer which you would have got if the spellings were all correct. Moreover, the fact described by vasu bro about the appearance of search results by search queries is also one of the major factors. Considering this, I request all the learned fellows without any preference of name that please try checking the spelling of the word you are writing here, it only takes a bit. In fact, a better approach is to write the e-mail in Microsoft word first, and run the spelling and grammar check. Of course, the spelling and grammar check is not the best solution and it won’t point all the mistakes, neither the suggested things by it are all perfect, yet you can get an idea and decide what to correct. An other important thing that I’d like to suggest is to read whatever you have written with the help of your screen reader. Many times, your screen reader will pronounce a word in strange way if its spelling is not correct. This will let you know that there’s some problem with the spelling of that respective word, which you can correct then. I have been thinking to write spellings of some of the most commonly used words so the chances of collision can be reduced down. Based on your suggestions, I may start a series somewhere either here or on my website about the spellings of some very commonly used words. Response awaited. regards, Prateek agarwal. Skype: Prateek_agarwal32 Wanna see inside me? My blog is the telescope: http://www.myfriendprateek.blogspot.com website: http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com the best way to accomplish your softwares/websites development needs. You tell, I’ll build. ---------- Original message ---------- From: "Srinivasu Chakravarthula" <sriniv...@srinivasu.org> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:54 +0530 Subject: [AI] Care for spellings in postings - a request Dear all, Off late, there are several emails with lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. I do understand some of you may not got opportunity to study in English medium school and I'm one of them and that would be one of the possible reasons for spelling mistakes in emails and I don't mistake any of you. At the same time, please understand that postings of Access India are archived and easily available for people to come across the content through search engines and useful information posted by you would not come up in the search engines unless your content matches to the spelling that a researcher is looking for. So it would be a biggest disadvantage for us, if our content do not have correct spellings and grammar. To make your postings better, may I please suggest a couple of things, although I am aware, this would be a little more additional effort: 1. If you are using Microsoft Outlook / outlook express, be sure to do a spell check by pressing F7 (not sure for outlook express) 2. If you compose emails using webmail and use Mozilla Firefox, most often it notify you about spelling errors and by using the applications key, you can access the suggestions and use the correct spelling. 3. This suggestion would really be an additional effort, but you can try; if you are using webmail, may be, draft your email using Word Processor and run the spell check, then copy the same and paste to your compose box in web mail. Hope this would be of help to someone. No offense please. Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Hand phone: +91-990-081-0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org Yahoo! IM: vasugroupmails Follow me on: http://www.twitter.com/VasuTweets Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
