On 9 Jan 2008 11:40:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote: >I remember when my (now 18) son would do projects and, when I complained about >his spelling, the teacher would say "who cares? He's communicating"! > >Communication only works when you are all using a common language. If >everybody spells randomly, where's the commonality?
I suppose when someone is reading Alan Greenspan, he can spend lots of time trying to figure out what he meant. In a more casual environment such as the Web, we skim through - if something doesn't make immediate sense, we skip to the next page. When I start reading a sentence, reading a word as written, I don't want to go back and re-read to find out what word was meant. It's not that important, so I skip to the next message. If the author didn't think it was worth proof-reading, I will accept his judgment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
