On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Michael Turner wrote:

> bought my first cell fone because I never wanted to hear a law officer
tell
>
> major incontinence, then we make the emergency adjustments and live with
it
>
> PS -- my computer corrected four spelling mistakes before I sent this.

Unfortunately it didn't catch them all :>). I know what a "phone" is but
I'm confused by "fone".

It sure didn't check grammer or syntax because I don't think you meant
faulty bowels when you might have been inconvenienced ;>)

Computers may be great (I've used them for 39 years) but software
development, especially spell-checkers (which lack syntax and grammer
checking) have made a mess of communication.

I see more spelling mistakes on forms, papers and documents, than I ever
did 40 years ago when making a mistake was a major "pain in the ..." to
correct, especially when most documents had to be retyped.

I had 11 pages that had errors on them in a just recently completed Family
Trust document. I called the law firm and complained bitterly about the
sloppy (computer) work. I got the ususal run-around about a new
para-legal that wasn't quite up to their standards of quality. They sent
me a refund check for 10% of the cost of the trust.

In this respect, I hate computers, because they have destroyed the basic
communication skills that people had when using pen and paper.

--
Gerry Boyd
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