At 10:35 AM 3/10/5, Jones Beene wrote: >Oops another eldritch-errata, > >> it is only fari to allow his "pre-buttal," no? > > >Sorry. There was no intent in my notoriously dyslexic >spelling to imply anything about Mr. Horgan's sexual >preferences. Usually the MS spell-checker steps-in and saves >me from these occasionally humorous, but seldom this >prescient, kind of slip-up....
I've been using a freeware version of Eudora for about 10 years now. It has no spelling checker. I'm slightly dyslexic and both a bad speller and typist. This experience has led me to suspect the probability of a spelling error is proportional to: a. the degree to which the error inverts the meaning being expressed, b. the degree the expression is turned profane by the error, c. the amount of personal embarrassment the error causes, d. the degree of necessity to correct the error in a repost. I've also noticed that the probability of finding the error upon proofreading is inversely proportional to the above, as is the time interval after pressing send before the error is noticed. I suppose these observations are merely corollaries to Murphy's law. 8^) Regards, Horace Heffner
