Don't worry Calvin, our Mary isn't a troll and infact is a very wise lady, however, she comes from an era where if you couldn't spell, write or recite your tables correctly you were 'stupid' and suitably thrashed ;-)
Kids were also thrashed for using their left hand (satans spawn etc).
All the best ..
T i m
Not true.
I had my knuckles rapped with a ruler for dreaming instead of working. It was justified.
Not in any of the schools I went to.
Perhaps you think I'm older than I really am.
Mary
There's a biblical aphorism about casting stones. There are a lot of barriers to communication around here, we all know who one of them is (and the regular followup ping-pong doesn't help there) but another is a certain contributor who whenever she comes up with a word she doesn't know in a posting, posts a followup, instead of - say - using a dictionary to find it out.
I've kept quiet about it up to now, but when an antisocial habit is coupled with a tendency to hold oneself up as a paragon of good behaviour, and lecture others on how they ought to behave, it is time for things to be pointed out.
Nick, knowing there will be - by thingummy's law - grammar and spelling errors in this post.
John Rumm wrote in news:42c29914$0$17875 $ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:
I wish that they would do a spelling checker. :-)
(Not a Harry Potter-validator.)
That sounds very much like me, but read my post to the quiz on if, or not, I am dyslexic.
Dave
So I think that makes me a non dyslexic. Even though I have all the other traits.
I am clearly greatful that you said that :-)
Our daughter has 13 GCSE's and 4 A levels. Her daughter (our g daughter) is getting school reports that she is a dream to teach and is way above the rest of her class in reading, arithmatic and writing.
This post was spell checked by mself, not a speel chucker, so any mistakes are self generated. By what? I have no idea. (Hopefully, there will be no problems).
Dave
Has this got anything to do with the fact a that a woman will park her shopping trolley at the narrowest and busiest part of a supermarket? (No idea of special awareness). Usually at just the spot that you want to pass them and there is only a pallet that can't move that will let you pass. Another non multitask situation is at the checkout. They are slow to pack their bags and even slower to get their purse out and pay. To be followed by the packing of most of the goods that have been scanned and the putting away of their debit card/check book. :-(
Enter Mary to defend this. ;-)
As to the fact that they can multitask, watch them when their mobile phone rings. They cannot even walk when this happens. It stops them in their tracks :-) While they are using a phone, they cannot even input any data from someone stood alongside them :-(
Dave
Force shields up......
I have to take you to task on this.
A different subject that I will come back to if nessesary.(sp)
Not if you have no clue as to begin that spelling.
Mary, the ability to spell is a gift that some of us do not have. Note my use of necessary above. The spelling in this sentence should be corrected, but the above spelling is how I perceive how it sounds it should be spelt.
As an aside, I am slightly colour blind. Are you saying that I should brush up on my colours, in order to rid this from me? It is a genetic problem, just like dyslexia. Some of us can not see all the colours, others can't see all the letters in the correct order.
I hope not. I would like to see you posting here for many years to come.
Dave
Umm, if we're going to be all pedantic - which it seems to me you were, Mary - then the clear answer is 'no'; at minimum I'd want you to have written 'Whom did I correct', not 'who did I correct'. (Since the answer is 'I corrected him', not 'I corrected he', then the correct form is 'whom', not 'who'.)
Does it matter? Here on uk.d-i-y, barely at all. Here, the 'voice', 'register', or whatever word you prefer, is informal. So I don't see any more of a problem with the odd typo than with 'could've' in place of 'could have', or a hundred other informalities I'd cringe to see in something like a Government communique. (Seeing 'could of', mind you, sets me off gnashing my teeth - though I wouldn't bother posting to correct it in anything other than extreme circumstances ;-) As the who/whom thing shows, spellcheckers do no more than alert you to individual words not being in the dictionary; and blindly following their dictates can produce the most ridiculous howlers, too. I shan't bore you all with the anecdotes, but I will steal the following poemette [see, there's a word a spellchecker would barf on, yet it's an obvious enough playful usage] from
Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.
S'far as I'm concerned, other matters - interleaved snipped posting, reasonably formed sentences, relevancy - matter more in this forum than perfect spelling. Badly misspelt stuff is harder to follow, but in a few cases (You Know Who You Are ;-) are all part of hte, I mean the, individual style, and the raw punchiness of the contributor I'm thinking of more than compensates. (And the wilder misspellings provide at least as much entertainment as the average cryptic crossword clue: it's like learning to decipher the ramblings of the heavily-accented old git in the corner of the pub and discovering a welcome acerbic wit).
Stefek
Indeed, and the irony of having misspelt Einstein's name when he was talking about looking it up *in* *the* *phone* *book* was too good an innocent joke to pass up, right?
Stefek
not quite thrashed, but sadly "me too"!... and I am still in my 30's!
(Teacher while teaching writing would take the pencil from my left hand, slap my wrist, place it in the right hand, and then guide it round the letter shapes... "This is how you are supposed to do it!".
Alas no one noticed until it was too late.
I knew it to be fact John so didn't bother to counter Mary (even though it was only tounge in cheek with ref to her). When we were on one of our motorcycle / camping holidays we spent a very interesting day at the Beamish outdoor museum. We sat in on a demonstration of what class would be like in a small school from the turn of the century, complete with class teacher and headmaster. Talk about strict .. and anyone caught writing with the 'wrong' (left) hand would have it caned or straped! I was sitting there as an adult 'guest / spectator' but didn't dare move or speak!
AND all the folk that would be 'locked up' in a looney bin because they were 'mad' .. today the same folk would be conducting semi)-normal lives with the right medicine / treatment / understanding?
All the best ..
T i m
Thanks for that Stefek .. at last something written in plain English that I can read easily! ;-)
All the best ..
T i m
Fazakerley.
But innocent intentions are sometimes not enough.
Oh, went there years ago not long after it opened....
At the turn of the century I guess is not quite as supprising (still unnacceptable, but not so supprising). I was talking about the mid seventies though!
;-)
Posting about combis to usenet no doubt... ;-)
Yep, we just go to sleep generally. :-)
Reputedly he was once stopped by the police and asked what the number of the car he was driving was. His response (paraphrased), "I don't know officer, but if you look at the end of the car I believe they put a little plate there with it written on it".
Of course he's been banged up in Guantanamo ever since...
I once attended a talk given by the bloke wot wrote the 'Inspector Morse' books. Colin Davis? He was asked if his books were 'true to life' and he recounted tale of a car that had crashed through a front hedge into a garden, reversed and driven off..
The police, when called, were uninterestd 'aren't you going to measure tyre tracks or look at the crime scene?' he asked...'Nah. Useless' they said...'Oh, you mean the fact that his front bumper and number plate are lying under that bush is of no use to you?....'
;-)
Colin Dexter; Colin Davis is a conductor.
There you go then. That one solved!
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