Re: Spelling and Grammar skills.

Hye (oops) hey!

People, it seems, hate to take the 15 seconds it takes to proofread
something.

Usually just a quick re-read will do. You'll spot the typos. One trick, for
short text, is to read it backwards. You'll notice missing and misspelled
words.

And if you are not sure about the spelling, look it up. My favorite site is
www.m-w.com, with Collegiate Online Dictionary and Thesaurus. Books? The
Elements of Style and the "big" edition of Webster's. Together, they don't
cost more than a cheesy HTML editor.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
To: <JC1654(at)aol.com>; <webmaster(at)geercom.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: Spelling and Grammar skills.


>
> In your pursuit of Truth and Beauty, perhaps you could list to us all some
> good sites and/or books to help us learn The Way....:)
>
> :)
>
> D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JC1654(at)aol.com>
>
> David,
>
> Amen and hallelujah! Another ally in the crusade to preserve the integrity
> and beauty of the English language. Thank you.
>
> Jim Cika
> MillenniumDesignWorks
> JC1654(at)aol.com
>
> In a message dated 6/18/00 10:54:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> david(at)ceoexpress.com writes:
>
> > Too many people on the web evidence by their horrifically poor
> >  spelling and grammar skills that they either don't know their
> >  English, are drunk or on drugs, have brain damage resultant from
> >  such, are in too much of a hurry to use a spell checker or to be
> >  careful of their work or some combination of the above.
> >
>
>
>
>
>

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