This is a genuinely edifying thread -- I'm an excellent speller and until
now, I was really intolerant of people that aren't.
Thanks for pulling me up -- I admire your cando(u)r and courage.
WAY TO GO JAMES
Adam Turner
'74 TR6
James wrote:
> Spell checkers are not perfect, they do not tell the difference
> between nouns and verbs. As far as a spell checker is concerned
> it is a patten of number with no context. When I use a spell checker
> I find it hard to pick the replacement word, because it is out of
> context. So I write is how it sounds, so that I you can work it
> out. I'm sorry but thats all I can do, usaly I don't have to
> do it, but at the end of a long week I'm worse.
>
> I don't meen to be nasty about this, I don't mind I can look after
> myself. I just remeber the hell I went through at school, and I
> so am trying to change peoples views on dyslexia so that dyslexic
> school kids will not have to go through the same as thing I did.
>
> Don't for get I use a UK spell checker, so to Americans my
> spelling will still be incorect. There just letters, compleatly
> seperat from the consept.
>
> If you can't undestand a word, e-mail me back, I'll either try
> and correct it, use a thesourus, or explian. I don't mind, just
> don't be pedantic and pick up everything, the internet can't take
> all that mail.
>
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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