> 1 of my favo8 Mark Twain qots is:

Someone asked to spell that word in full may now say "favourate"

> "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
>
> Testing for comprehension does not require correct spelling and
> English unless one is testing for comprehension of spelling or proper
> English

So you, as an employer, would be quite happy to call in a translator
to decipher a report ?

The problem with TXT is that there are no rules. Eventually, if
everyone goes their own way and does what they like, what
happens to communication ? How do you explain Pythagoras
or hydraulics in TXT ? And know you were understood ?

> The drinking age is a sore spot with me. If you are old enough to
> fight for your country, you should be old enough to drink

IMHO you can't equate the two. However, although NZ Armed Forces
are involved in most conflicts, it is generally in a support role - medical,
supplies etc - and not as frontline combatants. So my view is one from
the position of not seeing body bags arrive at the airport

Those examples often cited as "we can do this, why can't we drink ?"
are, for want of a better phrase, character building in a positive way.
Voting, driving, marrying, serving in the Armed Forces and pose no
threat to physiological development. Alcohol is a potent poison to a
developing brain, and the 18yo still has several years before reaching
maturity. Behaviour is the problem, not alcohol per se, but teenagers
do what they gotta do

> The problem is when they drink every night for the rest of their lives

Not only that but, for the reason above, there is, and always has been,
a culture of binge drinking. Most people will grow out of that behaviour,
but won't grow out of the damage they did to synapses


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