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

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 114559


Susana da Cunha wrote:
> 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.

SSSusan:
Yes, Susana, PLEASE do take what I wrote as just an attempt to 
help/remind!  I wish, now, that I'd not posted. [I can sense others 
nodding their heads vigorously.]  What I was thinking was this: "How 
can I point this out in such a way that people will be reminded of 
the difference?"  I thought I'd try a little humor...but I'm not 
sure it was so humorous. :-|  I certainly never meant to upset or 
offend.

My husband is dyslexic, so goodness knows I should understand that 
some have difficulty seeing typos and spelling errors.  I also was 
decidedly NOT intending to put non-native English speakers on the 
defensive.  It's the kind of thing I could have *said* in one of my 
classes and my students would have gotten the point but also known 
my tone was "friendly neighborhood reminderish."  That, I've 
learned, isn't always the case with an e-format.

My apologies to any I ticked off!

Siriusly Snapey Susan