By the way, on the subject of accurate spelling, there was a thread
about Versamail and Comcast in which the user with the problem
eventually discovered an errant newline at the end of his email address.
He corrected the "spelling" and the problem went away.
I'm not criticizing the OP (which I don't know what that stands for,
but I've learned in means "operator who had the problem"), because such
errors can and have happened to all of us.
But of all people, computer folks should understand the need for
accurate communications. That will be so until our machines become
capable of figuring out the most likely meaning in what scribblings we
have input to their sandy brains.
Alli wrote:
> I teach high school. Spelling does count. Grammar does count. Of course,
> I teach French and writing, so my kids don't stand a chance. Then again,
> I live on IRC and refuse to chat with people who use aohell speak and
> don't have the intelligence to type out 3 or 4 letter words.
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> Jerry Godsey wrote:
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>> When I was teaching school the question I hated most was, "Mr. Godsey, does
>> spelling count on this?" My answer was always a smarmy, "Why, no, feel free
>> to misspell as many words as you possibly can." One of the parents of a
>> student was the editor of the local newspaper (the one who got my newspaper
>> column started) and she wrote an editorial once entitled, "Spelling Always
>> Counts!"
>> Some of the reports we get from our deputies are amazing. It is not always
>> misspelled words, spell check can catch those. It is words used incorrectly
>> that drive us buggy. I constantly preach to my staff that the reports need
>> to be as bulletproof as possible. Misspelled words make us look like
>> amateurs to the lawyers who are scrutinzing our reports and looking for ways
>> to discredit us on the witness stand. It's just like teaching school all
>> over again!
>> Blessings,
>> Jerry Godsey
>>
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whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
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