Pete Theisen wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> Pete, You and Bob need to stop reading the leafe.com mailing list like a >> couple of English professors grading term papers. LOL The Thunderbird >> email client works find for me, even with its $8 spell checker. >> >> For some reason Thunderbird seem to favour British spelling over >> American spelling, though, so I've learned not to trust everything >> Thunderbird tell me. For example, Thunderbird will try and replace >> "color" with "colour", when spell checking. A new dictionary for >> Thunderbird would help most people, but I'm afraid I'm a lost cause. LOL >> >> >> http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm > > Hi Leland! > > The lady next door to me is a PhD English professor, you'd like her. > > You garnered your regal crown mostly by the wrong spelling of homonyms, > the misspelling of which which changes the meaning of what you are > trying to say. Proper spelling of homonyms isn't optional. If you do it > wrong you communicate the wrong meaning.
I know that, Professor. > > Homonyms you just have to know, like software syntax. Unless - you were > to write a cross-platform homonym checker for your first Dabo project. > Might be bigger than IntelliSense. At $8 a pop you'd be rich, although > at $7.95 you would sell even more of them - looks cheaper than it is. Your absolutely right. > > This is not to say you are not the king of garden variety spelling > errors as well, particularly when selecting the proper tense of verbs, > or so someone "tell" me. If you are not king, you are close. LOL Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
