Mechanism for lobbying missiles or an author's body of work?

[Susana da Cunha]

No: HPFGUIDX 114509

SSSusan wrote:
>And just to clarify a bit, I was not talking about typos.  EVERYONE
has a typo now & again.  I was really referring to folks who
consistenty write "cannon," as in 3 or 4 times in the same post.  So
we're actually talking about the same thing--the wrong word being
used, not a typo.  But I'd best end this before I screw up again.<
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Gee, I'm getting worried.

I recently wrote "hart" several times in the same post meaning "heart". My
apologies!

I hope you cut some slack to us non-native-English people. It's really hard
to keep part of your mind in spelling and grammar when you're involved in
the mind-challenging discussions we have here at HPfGU, you know?

Personally, I write my posts in MS Word and use the language functions to
correct my many spelling errors. But things like canon/cannon, hart/hart,
hole/whole, whether/weather, etc. (the list is enormous) don't show up as
errors.

English doesn't have spelling rules; it has spelling exceptions (about a
million of them) and then some exceptions are more recurrent then others
(dammed if I know which). I have over 2000 unread messages from HPfGU in my
mail box. I rather read them then to check every word in my posts on a
dictionary before posting. I'd end up not having time to post!

The kind list elves from helpdesk have offered me their services to
proofread my posts. If someone thinks I shouldn't have turned them down,
please, tell me so off list and I will contact them immediately. I won't
take offence, really!

But I read SSSusan's post as an attempt to help us
'confused-with-English-spelling' people, so I won't jump to helpdesk just
yet.



Regards,

Susana