Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT)
From: "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 23:17:23 -0700
References: <200010160447.VAA11014@rakitzis.com>

I was amazed at how my spelling improved when I began using dictating
equipment.

Roland Smith
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron Rakitzis" <leica@rakitzis.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 9:47 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT)


> 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.
>

Replies: Reply from Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu> (Re: [Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT))
In reply to: Message from Byron Rakitzis <leica@rakitzis.com> ([Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT))