Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Social Text which inspired it is Alan Sokal, spelled with a > > 'k' not a 'c'. > > > > Best, > > > > Aaron Aaron, Only nit pickers and ex school teachers give a crap, about a small spelling mistake. What really counts, is the content of the Post. If you can't figure out, what was meant, just because someone misspelled a word. Don't forget, People who's native language is not english most of the time speak one more language than people whose mother tongue is english. My father, before he retired, worked in a German university. He was exceptionally proficient in the German language. His job was to correct and to put in to understandable german, the articles and thesis's written by the professors and doctors of this university. I saw some of them, when my father took some home to work on them. Most of them where incredible badly written full of spelling mistakes. These reports where written, by highly intelligent people. To me, this shows, that the contents is, what counts and not a spelling problem here or there. I believe, even Einstein made a spelling mistake once. Or so, the story goes. I have quite some problems, with the capitalizing of some words. The worst one is the simple "I". In german it is spelled "i" . The same applies to the rest if the spelling. Many more words in german than in english are spelt with a capital letter at start of the word. Even the meaning of the same word can vary, depending if it is spelled with a capital or a small letter. For example the word: "fliegen" with a small f, means flying. The same word: Fliegen" with a capital F means:" The flies". Those little buzzing annoying insects. So don't be to pedantic, looking for spelling mistakes. You're may not be always be perfect either. Regards, Horst Schmidt