RussellMc wrote:
> Olin: Hint - check you mental and system exception list. I know I
> make consistent misteaks witch sale threw my mental flitters. Yew may
> ore may know bee aware that yew doo to.

If your mind thinks something is spelled a certain way, then of course
you're not going to catch it on proofreading.  That also explains why those
spelling mistakes are consistent (here's a good example, I was wondering
whether that should be "consistant" or "consistent".  I copied it from you
above, and it looks more right too.  No, I'm not going to take the time to
look it up for a PIClist post).  I usually do look back at what I wrote and
more often than not find something to fix.  However for me running a spell
checker is too much trouble for PIClist posts and isn't in my workflow.  Oh
well.  You are of course free to judge me as you like based on spelling
errors or any other errors or lack thereof.  I'm fine with that.

I do think, however, that my posts are not so badly written as to be
annoying to read most of the time (due to language structure at least).
Unfortunately some others here write posts that are usually annoying and
make them look dumb on a regular basis.  This includes some native english
speakers (duh).

Even non-native speakers have little excuse for not following very basic
language rules, like first letter capitalized and period at end.  The
student who was just asking about his temperature controller homework is a
great example.  He's obviously not a native english speaker.  The unnusual
choice of words and grammar was therefore no problem.  However, with no
start or end to sentences the verbal diarrhea was just too annoying to
bother decoding and responding to.  My mental process was something like:

  idiot_list[nidiots++] =3D "..."
  delete


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