Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 22:58:35 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: RasterMan on linux and threads |
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Richard Gooch wrote: > > Marcin Dalecki writes: > > > raster@rasterman.com wrote: > > > > -> Thank's Lord! Finally someone out there with a spelling even > > > > -> worser then myself!! > > > > i try hard - it takes a lot of effort :) > > > > > > Nothing you should be proud about. You are at a level where > > > it hurts the eye during reading. > > > > You're being insulting. Not just once, but twice. Is this really > > necessary, especially in public? Raster could have flamed back after > > the first comment, but he didn't. So you had to keep pushing?!? > > Thank you Richard. Many people, including very intelligent and > literate people have difficulty spelling. There's a whole branch of > psychology to study the phenomenon. We just observed that some people > are sensitive to bad spelling too. > > Marcin's words seem insulting but may be a simple misunderstanding. > Rasterman's words could be interpreted as "i try hard to spell badly" > (because I think it's k3wl), or "i try hard to spell properly and it > takes me a lot of effort".
Well said. However, if The Poster is simply too lazy to write a message in such a way as to render it easily comprehensible to its recipients, then I consider that more insulting than a simple, if somewhat insensitive misunderstanding.
I found Raster's posts hard to read, because they were under-punctuated, under-capitalised and badly mistyped in a way that led me to believe that he was not having trouble spelling, but merely that he valued his time and effort in making a legible message over that of the L-K subscribers who expended considerable effort in deciphering it. That being the case, it's no better than posting untrimmed, unwrapped, jeapordy-quoted HTML asking about ncurses.
I publicly apologise in advance if I have misrepresented anyone.
Matthew.
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