Re: [OT]: Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:06:45 -0700

Kevin Aylward <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> says...

>No. Several people have told me *some* specific passages have some minor
>errors in them. I *agree* that some passages have minor errors. This
>doesn't make the whole thing bloody incomprehensible.

Perhaps I am wrong. Take a poll in this newsgroup and see.
Right now you are doing the equivalent of writing a computer
program that puts a warning message on the CRT whenever the
computer loses power.

>> As for not being able to correct it, people with dyslexia are
>> often able to produce well-written prose by explaining what they
>> mean to a tape recorder, doing a word-for-word transcript, and
>> then editing out whatever mistakes they see.
>
>That was not my point. I dont need to do that as I have no trouble
>whatsoever in understanding grammar.

perhaps you missed my previous statement saying that I don't think
you have dyslexia. My comment was about those wh do.

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