James,
Now then,
Being Danish, living in the US of A..
What do I know anyway?
I thought Linux was something fishy and smoked that you ate on a Bagel.
I now is much more knowledgeable.
Like I've said so many many times before,
"Sorry, My mistake"
John
.At 02:13 PM 2/6/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> James,
>
>> Then, how about typing your message off-line,
>> spell checking it, and then cut-n-paste the result into your e-mail.
>>
>> No criticism intended, just trying to be helpful.
>>
>> John
>
>Being dyslexic, I find that if I can recognize when I miss spell a word,
>but no actually be able to replace said word with the correct spelling.
>The
>off-line spelling is not actually an option in this case, if I had it, I
>would
>certainly be able to use it. As I said I run Linux system, which runs
>on a
>PC, to run the spelling checker would evolve changing the active
>partition to
>my other operating system via a boot menu, running it, booting back into
>Linux.
>This disallows cutting and pasting, and would necessitate the need to
>transfer
>the data via Floppy disk. Converting the CR/LF char's to the platform
>standard.
>
>This is a bit time consuming, so I really on the data redundancy of the
>english
>language. As you may or may not know English is about 85% redundant,
>this means
>that if you are presented with 15% of a sentence, you will get the
>meaning. I
>also rely on the fact I spell frenetically when I can't spell a word,
>you have
>to employ a different method of reading to the normal human method, but
>it's
>partially hard. I also try an use putuation to compensate for miss
>spelt
>words, I know you use them, but surly it's harder to read a message with
>no Capital letter, full stops or comers. After all I got to Uni with my
>note making.
>
>No offence intended, I get this A LOT when I first meet people, it just
>takes
>a while for them to get used to my spelling. The people I feel sorry
>for
>were my teachers, before
>
>I will investigate getting the spell checker working on my e-mail, I
>think
>it must use GNU spell, which I will have to install. ;)
>
>--
>James Carpenter
>Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
>
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