Re: Vinland Map and New Math

From: Alan Crozier (name1.name2_at_telia.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:59:36 GMT

"JMB" <jmb@utvinternet.ie> wrote in message
news:newscache$cq6pci$dti$1@weblab.ucd.ie...
> "I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@telia.com> wrote in message
> news:xHYUd.18687$d5.143880@newsb.telia.net...
> >
> > "Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:d01hve$p12$2@newsmaster.pub.dc.hol.net...
> >> I.E_Johansson wrote:
> >> > "Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> skrev i meddelandet
> >> > news:d00e7t$pq9$3@newsmaster.pub.dc.hol.net...
> >> >
> >> >>Inger, restoration is spellt restoration. Not restauration, which is
to
> >> >>do with restaraurants (sort of). That's why they're talking about
> >> >>hamburgers.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > You and they know of my spelling problems due to my dyslexia. I take
it
> > that
> >> > they know that a spelling program unfortunatly gives ok when a word
> > exist.
> >> > Childish of them. Don't you agree.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the word "restauration" doesn't exist, so your
> >> spellchecker should have caught that. I'm sure you have a sense of
> >> humour, Inger. Let them have some fun. You could, too.
> >
> > Well Renia the word 'restauration' do exist. Or don't you believe The
> > Times
> > knows which words exist or which doesn't? "Restauration is much more the
> > fashion industry than the rag trade is: Jim-Bobbi Beauzizi and Chantal
> > Godilleuse do not imitate each other. " source:
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4382-464934,00.html
> > but of course 'restauration' doesn't mean same as 'restoration'. But the
> > word does exist.
>
> It's a made up word. It doesn't exist in the English language (although
it
> may in the future if people pick up on that usage, but that is unlikely).
> Either way, it doesn't get passed by any English spell check that I can
> find.

You have to be careful in saying that a word doesn't exist. I have often
found that words exist without having informed me (or the dictionaries) of
their existence.

The spelling checker in Outlook Express does not stop and flag "restauration
" as wrong. You could almost believe Inger was telling the truth about her
spell checker here. However, one wonders how the same spell checker could
ignore certain words in the same message:

binded
loosy
parchement

Sounds like the usual dishonest bluff to me.

Alan 

-- 
Alan Crozier
Lund
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