Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT)
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:18:40 -0400
References: <200010160447.VAA11014@rakitzis.com> <002501c03738$c0b8b2c0$02000003@dnai.com>

Like my secretary.

Roland Smith wrote:

> 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.
> >

In reply to: Message from Byron Rakitzis <leica@rakitzis.com> ([Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT))
Message from "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Pet Peave (OT))