Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:12:06 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Mike <skillet@nauticom.net> Subject: Re: Cant these people spell? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027224132.62012E-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991028101345.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 27-Oct-99 Jamie Bowden wrote: > > The ability to type a proper sentence has nothing to do with being new to > > computers. If you can't write a letter effectively, you don't need to be > > using a computer, you need to be in school learning how to read and write. > > Oh please.. > His English is quite understandable which is the point.. Being picky about > grammatical structure and spelling is pretty lame. I utterly disagree. I saw the -questions article that started this thread, and thought that the author was clearly a semi-literate luser. He complained that _The Complete FreeBSD_ was unreadable! I've lent my copy to several people, including one I wouldn't leave alone in a room with a Macintosh. Not one of them had any problems following the manual. One of them did have problems getting FreeBSD installed because one of his PCI slots didn't work, but I can hardly blame him for that. I would have to try very hard to be as unclear as the -questions poster was. Removing white space and replacing every punctuation mark with "..." would get me nowhere near there. I don't have a problem with people who can't spell; I am no bee winner myself. People -- who appear to be native english speakers -- who can't write sentences which have subjects that agree with their verbs, on the other hand, are much more annoying. Look at it this way: If you were going to someone a question -- someone who is likely quite busy, and who could likely get people to pay him or her to answer the same sort of question -- wouldn't you go a little bit out of your way make yourself as clear as you could? The things that the regulars in -questions put up with really impress me. They have much more patience than I. That, or they are much enhanced versions of jordan.pl. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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