Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's all the LUG needs now -- a spelling flame discussion. Flaming spelling has to be the oldest game on the internet and it will surely take up our time nicely now that politics is verboten. Spelling flamesters, beware: a spelling flame is rarely free of its own mistakes. This tendency also becomes a frustrating self-perpetuating mechanism for spelling flames: "A: see! You cant spell" -- "B: you cant spel either!" AS FOR SENTENCES WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS, any type designer will tell you that the human eyes read words more comfortably by grasping their shape (via the ascenders and descenders of d, p, k, l, g, j, y, etc.) rather than their spelling. All caps (or all lower case) defeats this shortcut we use. It would be wonderful to wave a magic wand to fix all the bad spelling and grammar on the net. In the meantime, could I advise "live and let live"? Byron.