Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >