On Saturday 28 July 2007, tigg_teagan wrote:
> Hal, though I appreciate why you wrote what you did, I will have to
> agree with Mick on this one. I think we have gotten so used to the
> online means of communication that we tend to write the same way we
> speak. We don't always use correct grammar, punctuation or spelling
> when communicating "informally"
> paragraph of the post you called on the carpet a couple of times, but
> that is nothing unusual. I actually had less difficulty understanding
> her first sentence than I did one of yours. I love Aussie slang, and
> it only took me a second to see that she was asking the same question
> a previous poster, Jen, had asked.
>
> Your sentence: "I also know that you're not going to scream that I
> disagree with you and that you're someone I can openly disagree with
> and there not be a nasty shouting war or pouting." was harder for me
> to understand the meaning of.
Yes, that was my fault. I remember starting to proof it, erasing half
of it, then getting a phone call. I didn't check it over again and
just wrote what I thought I was going to write. I'm telling you what
happened, but that is not an excuse. I didn't check it.
I have a few other comments, but I'll hold back until I see what you and
Mick and others have to say about this. Here's a thought, for all:
what would you think if you saw someone posting and their posts looked
like this (this is an example I've taken from my special ed
experience):
Withoautl spelllacheck this is thia whay aI type. This is anot a faked
post that has beena tled to exaggerate what my typing canb e like.
Would you listen to what that person had to say? How much attention
would you give them? Would you respect their reasoning or would you
get fed up with them because it was so hard for you to read their post?
Think about it. If someone always posted like that, we'd like to think
that we'd be open minded and pay attention to their message, but would
we get fed up with them and just not pay attention to what they write?
Would we willing read posts by that writer and give them the same
weight you give to posts by Mick or hit_margin or Paine or me?
Hal
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