Re: Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:07:22 GMT

Don Pearce wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:02:23 +0200, "Frank Bemelman"
> <f.bemelmanx@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:
>
>> "Kevin Aylward" <salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk> schreef in bericht
>> news:FNZ2d.25448$U04.22697@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>>
>>> Kind words, but misplaced. Look, I know when I read something
>>> whether or not it makes sense or not. The issue is that I am
>>> preoccupied with the *content*, so I rush through the more
>>> inconsequential things. Even after an offending piece is pointed
>>> out, a dyslexic still wont know why something doesn't make good
>>> grammatical sense. I do.
>>
>> I agree with that. Speed, fatigue sometimes, contributes to making
>> spelling errors. Speed often leads to skipping letters or entire
>> words. That doesn't make you an imbecile who can't write. I often
>> make errors with word that sound more or less equal. Like to & too,
>> or it's and its.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>
> That would certainly be true for something dashed off quickly, like a
> Usenet post, but not for a web page that has doubtless gone through
> several revisions before publishing.

Nope.

I write quickly and post it. I don't do much checking. Writing is just a
necessary evil that one needs to do to get things out. Writing excellent
prose is just not something that has much interest for me.

Kevin Aylward
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