Pascal Chevrel wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote: > > >>>The page does not read like a joke. "We can all spell. Try learning - >>>it's a useful life skill. Really." Doesn't sound like a joke to me. >>> >>It's not a joke. That bit is deadly serious. Fifty years ago people >>could spell, because they couldn't offload the work on machines. >>Learning to spell means all your handwritten (yes, some people still do >>that) communications will also be understandable. >> >>Correct spelling has a purpose - a language agrees on standard spellings >>in its alphabet of the words for particular things or concepts in order >>to promote clear communication between individuals. Better spelling >>leads to better communication. >> > > Gerv, > > I find your argumentation very narrow-minded. You forget that most of the > people in the world speak and write more than one language. I, for one, > definitely need a multilingual spell checker in mozilla, just like in NS4, > because I write e-mails in three different languages everyday. Just like Sam, > I find the "We can all spell. Try learning - it's a useful life skill. > Really." insulting. What do you expect from non-English speaking users? To > have an encyclopedic knowledge of your language ? Have you ever thought that > most of the people need spell checkers because they write in a language which > is not their mother toungue ? > > Pascal > >
Then why don't you use Netscape 6.2 for your email? It has a spell-checker. 6.2 is Mozilla 0.9.4+. Use Mozilla strictly for testing purposes, etc. Remember, Mozilla is not an end-user application. What works today may not work tomorrow or from day to day as the nightlies unfold, who knows. -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
