(OT) Spelling etc

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 5637

At 00:05 Dave wrote:

>I know I asked for it, and I am glad to see that people are more 
>concerned with the spelling and grammar. This is a shame 
>because you miss the meaning of what is said by those of us 
>who can't type, and rely on assistants. 

Forgive me for asking, but is this because you are physically unable to type
or because you are not a proficient typist?  

I however tend to write like 
>I speak, and I don't say "comma" when there should be a gap in 
>my speech, but simply hand tapes to my assistant and ask her 
>to type it out, good news she taught English at UCLA before 
>working for me. 

I think people were a little hard on you, Dave, but the fact remains that
your posts are rather difficult to read.  If your assistant taught English
at UCLA, surely she would know better than to type something out in one long
string?  Alternatively, couldn't you just press return a couple of times
when she hands you the final draft?
  
When this club was at Yahoo, we had a right old ding-dong over people
writing posts without punctuation and in lower case.  You'll note the the
club's FAQ page includes some guidance on this area, which largely arose
after that debate.  It might sound like people are wagging their fingers at
you, but when we have 100+ messages a day to get through, it's nice if the
writing flows.

>So I will not ask you all to correct me, because I know my 
>strengths are running a company not typing or taking time to 
>reread my posts when I am upset. So the question is can we not 
>correct my grammar (I will hire a writing tutor on Monday) if I were 
>to post good points?

I run a company too, but I can still manage to bash out a few readable
lines. People might not correct you again, but you might find that they
don't respond either.  Seriously, if you really don't have time to type out
or check your own writing, my advice would be to keep your posts quite short.  

Neil

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