I learned about Ken Iverson's penchant for looking for spelling
errors when he travelled to Boston to make a presentation with me at
our US office.
The evening before, I took him to dinner at a fancy restaurant where
the menu was more than 20 pages and I was becoming concerned when he
kept paging through it without deciding what to order. When I asked
if he could find nothing he liked he laughed and explained that he
was counting the spelling errors which was one of his hobbies. I was
appalled because I am dyslexic and my daughter (age 12 at the time)
had already pointed out that there were myriad spelling errors in the
overhead transparencies (before the days of spellchecking programs).
After that presentation and learning about my difficulty, he offered
to help me prepare the next presentation in Toronto.
I found it interesting that Ken was ambidextrous, switching from
writing left to right with his right hand to right to left with his
left hand as he put APL examples on the white board. I have right/
left ambivalence but not so much dexterity.
Donna
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On 4-Jan-08, at 2:49 PM, Randy MacDonald wrote:
I suggest you review the proper use of the apostrophie before you
address APL and J enthusiasts; a clan renoun for thier love and
respect
of spelling, punctuation and grammar.
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