"Loris Bennett" <[email protected]> writes: > We didn't have mindfulness (or spell-checking, for > that matter) when I was growing up. Historians of > the future will tell us (or themselves) whether the > results suffered.
When we were growing up there wasn't Google, YouTube, MSN, Facebook, Twitter either. And in school you were reading, writing, and doing math. But just because the old times weren't like that, doesn't mean the "old timers" are immune to modern-day lack of mindfulness... And as for the youngsters put them on a raft in the Pacific ocean and have them do fishing and reading under the stars a couple of weeks and they will be very mindful indeed... So there is both concern and hope! > To avoid this, add the words to your personal > dictionary (don't you have to do with ispell too?). Yes, but it is not enough! It is just too many words which are correct that turns up. They turn up with ispell as well but it is another thing to deal with all that quickly once when you do not type and you yourself has decided "I'm going to deal with that" compared to having to do that because your fingers are slippery and Emacs won't shut up about it! > When I'm writing English, my first language, > flyspell tends to pickup typos rather than real > spelling mistakes. OK, here, I never thought about that distinction. > It would be interesting to know whether there is any > empirical evidence as to whether being corrected as > you go à la flyspell as opposed to doing a final > spell-check ispell-style has any effect on the > quality of one's spelling over time. Interesting indeed. I don't have an educated guess. But I do have an educated guess with respect to the quality of the writing - here, ispell wins. Because with ispell there is more enjoyment, relaxation, and focus on getting the thoughts on paper (screen) rather than - "is this word correct? should I add it?" in the middle of writing a sentence! It makes sense. That sentence. PS. In this message: "MSN". DS. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
