Well, if we're offering opinions on people's postings and
writings.............
I would like to say that I find all of Roger's interesting, insightful,
and generally very well thought out, and thought provoking !

'if only' even 10 % of all postings and peoples' writings were as
interesting as Roger's !
scott

Jake de Villiers wrote:
> Actually Roger, yours are the most ignored posts because of your inability
> to cleave to any sentence structure.
>
> If you can't be bothered to shape your thoughts for readability, I can't be
> bothered to wade through them.
>
> Byenow
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> dear studentry of the english language et al
>>
>> first ...
>>
>>> Pricey.
>>>
>> ALWAYS remove a final e from a word before adding any suffix. If "torquy"
>> looks awkward, so what?
>>
>> both are considered correct ... APPLE Spell Widget says so ...
>> my wife with american university masters says so too
>> (but we refer to Apple to adjudicate all disagreements)
>> (we have several style manuals in the house but chicago is too big and
>> strunk is under it)
>> (the canadian style manuals are on order)
>>
>> second ...
>> many countries are on this list ... (i hail from Canadia ;o)
>> north america is made up of three continental  ties to three  nations and
>> oceanic  ties to one
>> (france (w/ st pierre & miquelon )
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
>>
>> so it would not be out of order if i were to revert to my mother tongue and
>> commence to include grammar from the language Breton
>>
>> third ...
>> email is somewhat more like a conversation rather than a written letter ...
>> article or story ...
>> the parentheses used are often to note a digression in the speech ...
>> much like an aside would be offered in spoken word
>>
>> when i write an article .. story or professional letter i submit same to my
>> editors ..
>> (one i am married to and one i work with)
>> they happily make me look better ...;o)
>> all of these mediums have different tokens that make them operate better in
>> different environments ...
>>
>> second to lastly ...
>> i am always amazed that how a mass produced vehicle like the Volkswagen Van
>> (type 2 - etc... ) with Westfalia interior can have no two alike
>> or at least very few alike ... the inlets are often in different
>> locations... (just for example)
>> there are as many nuances to the van as there are people who own them ...
>> i grew up in a region that sent people to the hostible if they fell off the
>> slippy roof while cleaning their chimilly
>> if you really want to move your grammar up a notch... advance your self to
>> read ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Flesch
>> then go to your computer open word >open options> choose the edit grammar
>> tab> choose to show readability statistics
>>
>> take note of whose readability statistics those are ...
>>
>> lastly ...
>> (Really)
>> enjoy all the variations of writing available in lists like these
>> make your professional work impeccable on web pages ... blogs ... letters
>> to
>> others
>> and remember that form will never become from and then will never have
>> happened in juxtaposition with than ...
>> no matter how many times you run spell check ...
>> unless the readability statistics box is checked ...
>>
>> yours
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Andrew Grebneff <
>> andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm impressed that, having read several replies to my posting, none have
>>> shown selfrighteous indignation. The subject is entirely relevant to the
>>> list.
>>>
>>> In my experience even dedicated scientists have problems with punctuation
>>> and spelling.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Waht is the big dael aobut snplleig on the Vgoaann lsit? The hamun mnid
>>>> can furige out prttey mcuh any wrod as lnog as the wreitr dseon't
>>>> srecw up the fsrit and lsat crcteraahs.
>>>>
>>> Words can indeed be worked out from context, but often punctuation
>>>
>> cannot.
>>
>>> These things are NOT unimportant... our entire written language depends
>>>
>> on
>>
>>> them, and one incorrect punctuation-mark can utterly change the meaning
>>>
>> of
>>
>>> a sentence eg "What's that on the road ahead?" and "What's that on the
>>> road, ahead?" (and at this point addition of a period to end my sentence
>>> is problematic... triple punctuation, anyone?
>>>
>>> Note that dictionaries ans spellcheckers are only as good as their
>>> authors!
>>>
>>> Of course typos don't count, but:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Uhhh, you'd be amazed at how many CEO's...(70's)...
>>>>
>>> Er... what do the CEOs and the 70 own?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Its not just spelling Jeff, but the complete lack of structure in
>>>> peoples'
>>>> emails.
>>>>
>>> It's not just spelling, Jeff, but the...
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yeah well I said "important letters, etc."
>>>>
>>> Yeah, well, I said "important letters etc".
>>>
>>>
>>>> I agree it's spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.
>>>> However, we also have to consider each of us has our own strengths.
>>>>
>>> I agree that it's spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure.
>>> However we also have to consider that each of us...
>>>
>>>
>>>> Maybe you should find someone else for that task. (e-mail., writtne,
>>>> submited).
>>>>
>>> .. someone else for that task (e-mail, written, sumitted).
>>>
>>>
>>>> ...and some of it's wiring chewed on by animals...
>>>>
>>> its. It's means "it is".
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pricey.
>>>>
>>> ALWAYS remove a final e from a word before adding any suffix. If "torquy"
>>> looks awkward, so what?
>>>
>>>
>>>> An evolving language is the equivalent of grammar by the lowest common
>>>> denominator, no?  And think I actually had to learn English as a
>>>> second
>>>> language the correct way.  What was I thinking!
>>>>
>>> Well said! Languages do of course evolve; however corruption is something
>>> else entirely.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> roger w
>> There are two kinds of jobs in the world:
>> Picking up garbage and telling people things.
>> Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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>>
>>
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