This reminds me of a poem, written by a South African poet in the times of Apartheid. IIRC it had the encrypted and hopeful title: Wheel if in a freak untree.
Kees. "Mike Schwab" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<CAJTOO5-do66om7j-0fmi=qzhbet63db94hs3luczhtn+8tr...@mail.gmail.com >... > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > By the way you mean Homophone not Homonym. The former are words that sound > > alike but are spelled differently while the latter are words that mean the > > same thing but are spelled/pronounced differently. There are also words that > > are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations > > (although I forget the term for this case) such as in "Please read this book > > which I have already read". > > > > Even worse is the use of Spell Checkers in the absence of follow-up use of > > Syntax/Grammar Checkers. All a Spell Checker does is verify that an > > alleged/supplied word is a validly spelled word NOT the correct spelling pf > > the word or even the intended word. You have to use a Syntax/Grammar Checker > > to attempt to verify that the word is correct in its usage (ie: Is the > > correct homophone or even the correct word [when you accidently mistype a > > word and end up with a valid word]). The best way of doing the later is via > > use of the Mark 1 version of IEBEYBAL. > > > You can't go through all that without giving the most famous example, can you? > http://www.jir.com/pullet.html > > (c) The Journal of Irreproducible Results, v39 #1, January/February > 1994, p 13, and v45 #5-6, 2000, p 20. > > Candidate for a Pullet Surprise > Jerrold H. Zar > Northern Illinois University (since retired): > > I have a spelling checker, > It came with my PC. > It plane lee marks four my revue > Miss steaks aye can knot sea. > > Eye ran this poem threw it, > Your sure reel glad two no. > Its vary polished in it's weigh. > My checker tolled me sew. > > A checker is a bless sing, > It freeze yew lodes of thyme. > It helps me right awl stiles two reed, > And aides me when eye rime. > > Each frays come posed up on my screen > Eye trussed too bee a joule. > The checker pours o'er every word > To cheque sum spelling rule. > > Bee fore a veiling checker's > Hour spelling mite decline, > And if we're lacks oar have a laps, > We wood bee maid too wine. > > Butt now bee cause my spelling > Is checked with such grate flare, > Their are know fault's with in my cite, > Of nun eye am a wear. > > Now spelling does knot phase me, > It does knot bring a tier. > My pay purrs awl due glad den > With wrapped word's fare as hear. > > To rite with care is quite a feet > Of witch won should bee proud, > And wee mussed dew the best wee can, > Sew flaw's are knot aloud. > > Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays > Such soft wear four pea seas, > And why eye brake in two averse > Buy righting want too pleas. > > -- Jerrold H. Zar > Department of Biological Sciences > Northern Illinois University > DeKalb, IL 60115-2864 > [email protected] > > Title suggested by Pamela Brown. > Based on opening lines suggested by Mark Eckman. > By the author's count, 127 of the 225 words of the poem are incorrect > (although all words are correctly spelled). > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
