Spellcheckers

[ARTHUR OKUN]

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>>Peter, with all due respect, one of the biggest problems the U.S. has 

>>is that it is blisfully ignorant of other cultures. English is not 
>>the only language spoken in the world. In fact, I believe it is 
>>*third*. A quick look at this guy's name and location will tell you 
>>that this guy's mother tongue is French. If you spoke French you 
>>would understand why he spells like that in English. 
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>I did look at and note his address, and said "up there". I prefer to
>disagree with you on the spelling being in french. It just looks bad 
to me.
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>>I thinks he did 
>>quite well....you understood what he was trying to say -right ?
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>No, and that was the reason for the comment. Working my way through 
all of
>the spelling errors became such hard work that I gave up and went onto 
the
>next posting. Therefore, if I had been able to contribute anything to 
the
>reply, I wouldn't have, because it would have been too much like hard 
work.
>This is why there are spell checkers, so that simple errors can be
>eliminated by the computer. Poor English is a different story, and my 
French
>would be a lot worse than his English, but I would try and run it 
through a
>spell checker to get some sort of chance of the best possible 
responses to
>my questions. 
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>If the guy didn't speak English then the grammar and text content 
would be
>very different and then everything would be excusable.
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>> How about some slack ?
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>Ok,you answer the question, I'm off to the next posting
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>>Mark Hillier
>>mhillier at dataradio.com
>>Montreal, Canada
>Peter Wales
>President Superchips Inc Florida
>Chairman Superchips Ltd Buckingham     "Timing is everything"
>Superchips home page with all the answers  http://www.superchips.com
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i'm guilty too because i  just bang these messages in with one finger 
and don't really spellcheck or grammar check that carefully.
i wish i was a polyglot  i would  enjoy understanding the dialog in
foreign movies on u.s. television.>