On 10/17/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
Okay, I'm probably asking to get flamed by writng this, but would people *please* make an effort to check their spelling & grammar before they post here? In the haste to contribute to an ongoing conversation, sometimes the result can be, well, incoherent, as shown by the quoted passages below.
I agree with you, although the fact that you misspelled "writng" in your very first sentence leads me to believe you don't use a spell checker yourself.
Unless you consider the reason for this may a combination of low profile and the knowlage amoungst those that do know about it that they would be wasteing there time. Any article that is so important that it must be included in wikipedia this year is unlikely to get wiped out through AFD.
I wouldn't say anything about this paragraph, had it not appeared in the same post, because despite having a college degree in English, I still manage to misspell words. However, it borders on parody to find one statement with 3 glaring misspellings follow an incoherent one. I like to think that the people who post here on a regular basis are some of the brightest & most articulate (& yours truly) members of Wikipedia; seeing the above, I have to strongly reconsider that assumption. Typos & misspellings only undercut the power & logic of a writer's arguments, which is why I struggle to keep them out of what I write. (And an old Usenet rule dictates that at least one of these can be found in my email.)
Take a look at the other writings by this person. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it might be that they don't speak English as their primary language.
To repeat myself, if you believe your opinion is important enough to
be put into an email to this list, then it is important enough to proof-read that email before you send it to this list. I may be wrong to say this, but any topic will wait a minute or two while you perform this simple task.
I don't usually do it, but I did click on "check spelling" for this particular post.
Geoff
Anthony