Re: (Mark ?)

[geraint@xxxxxxx]

Suits me just fine !

I know a good optician, if you are unable to read mail becuase it has
extra commas in it. (of course, thats if you bother to read it !)

I'm going to bite my tongue with what I would really like to say.

Quite sad that you have nothing better to do than check on gramatical
errors in e-mail.
I would have thought the content of mail would be more important, but
I guess not.

But of course I don't object to opinion, even ones as extreme as this.
It's a shame that the only times I see mail from you is when it is
critical about someone else's findings or ideas, especially when they
do not follow your own interpretations.

This group has been more than friendly and on many occasions people
on here have got me a fix to a problem very quickly.
It's a shame you cannot therefore participate in the spirit of what
these groups are about instead of putting someone down.

I apologise now to the group if they don't like me using multiple
commas, fullstops, spelling or any other gramatical errors, but I do
have better things to do then check my typing when asking a quick
question or just replying to such like.

Geraint.

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@i...>
wrote:
> Perhaps I should have put a smiley after the four question marks.
>
> <rant>
>
> Actually I have to bite my tongue several times daily on the
Internet. This
> mailing list is pretty good as a whole, mainly I think because for
most of
> us English is a first language rather than American. Most of us can
string
> together a few sentences without throwing in several grammar and
spelling
> mistakes :)
>
> Although I did OK in English at school, it wasn't until I started
writing
> business to business sales proposals that I started getting really
picky
> about my own spelling and grammar. Unfortunately for me the
discipline has
> never left me, and I treat email in the same regard as writing a
letter and
> not as an interactive conversation where someone is reading as you
type and
> speed should take preference. When I was working in a dealing room
in the
> City, recruiting was very much a team effort, and all of the front
office
> staff took part in the interviewing and selection process. If a CV
came
> across my desk with one spelling or grammar error it used to find
its way
> into the bin very quickly - it is the same with letters addressed
to me
> personally with my name spelled wrong. Maybe I'm just picky, but it
is one
> aspect of the all pervasive American culture that really pisses me
off. Just
> because they don't know how to write, spell, or use apostrophes it
seems
> that it is becoming acceptable to do it over here. If my 12 year old
> dyslexoc nephew can cope, why can't most adults?
>
> Frankly with the volume of emails on this list I think it is only
common
> courtesy to write succinctly and properly. After all the whole
point of
> punctutation is to make writing easier to read and not more
difficult, and
> I'm not going to make any friends here, but I'm simply not going to
bother
> to read Geraint's posts any more, because I find them *really*
difficult to
> read.
>
> </rant>
>
>