Re: SUPRISE...!

houghi wrote:

J G Miller wrote:


On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:39:23 -0800, enteringheaven wrote:

http://<snip>.blogspot.com/

Who would want to read a blog for which the presumed author
cannot even spell the simple word SURPRISE correctly?

One should not coment on spelling on Usenet. And I have read interesting
blogs where people made a whole lot more and worse errors then the
misspelling of one word.

Unless it is about language, I am interested in content, not in
spelling. To answer your question: who would want to read a blog with a
misspelled word? I would.

I feel pity for those who think that the spelling is more importand then
the content. Not everybody is a Native English speaker and make a lot of
misstakes, yet they are making an effort of trying to speak another
language.

Something that can not be said for most people who have English (or
French) as a native language. I know of several peolle who do, yet they
are the majority.

That does not mean I would be willing to visit this specific URL. I
would not have wanted to visit it if they did spell it correctly or even
if they had not put the whole subject in uppercase.

Reminds me to add point 4.18 from
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-FAQ-4.html#ss4.18

Please report Blogspot spam to

<http://help.blogger.com/?

page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&ItemType=spam&contact_type=Spam&Submit=Continue>

Please use tinyurl.com for longer URLs
Also please do not repost URLs or information that you think is spam.
See how I removed the URL above?


houghi

And there is a ton of email spam out there that is deliberately misspelled
to prevent spam blockers from catching it. I want an email spam blocker
that checks spelling and if more than x words are misspelled, it trashes
the email.

So what if there is a few good ones out of thousands? If they have something
good to say, they can use a spelling checker and stop trying to deliberatly
avoid spam checking.

John
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