Languages
The list language is English, but if you are a non-native English
speaker please don't let that stop you. Many list members write bad
English but it doesn't matter, even very bad English is easy to
understand. Use the language translation programs on the Web if you
like, they're not very good sometimes, but again it doesn't matter.
The list is not just for the "Western English-speaking males" who
mostly populate the Internet, it is for everyone, with a special
interest in the "3rd World" countries of the Global South.
One of the advantages of English is that it can be understood when
spoken (or written) _badly_. Many other languages are not so fortunate.
That applies to you, no? It's obviously not easy for you, thanks for
taking the trouble to make the effort.
I don't know about anyone else, but I had no trouble reading your
message. I think anyone should be able to read it quite easily.
Slow reading, but I was able to get through it.
A couple of years ago my father had a small stroke. The only lasting
effect has been to his handwriting. He's a doctor, so his handwriting
was bad enough already, and now it's practically illegible, but I can
usually puzzle through it.
Kirk McLoren sent me this a while back:
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
waht oredr the ltteers of a wrod are in, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a
wlohe."
Could you read that?
Midori just read it without any difficulty at all, and she's Japanese,
not a native-English speaker. She thought it was very funny. So do I. So
much for spelling, eh? No need.
This is why anagrams can be so interesting.
But I should help you with this:
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
And somewhere out there Robert A. Heinlein, peace be upon him, is smiling.
AP
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