Psycho-Babble Administration Thread 3295

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spelling handicapping quality of information

Posted by JohnX2 on March 6, 2002, at 2:41:56

Dr. Bob,

I feel my crummy spelling/grammar may impede the interpretation
of the quality of information I convey. This is
a natural result of going into the applied
engineering field where I don't have to write much,
but when I do I have spellcheck. Its really sad
my memory gets so foggy I forget how to spell
grade school grammer words when typing too fast.

Big problem is my netscape box on my pc is really
small and I can type in it submit my post,
get a nice big snapshot of all my blunders on the
screen, click on the BACK button, find out I lost my post
information 20% of the time and cuss.
So now I just post without doing a grammar
check. Just hit click.

I'm thinking I must look really silly at times
giving out probably too technical crud with lots
of kindergarten grammar errors. I don't care I
think we should move to a phoenetics system, but
people with good English, Bachelor Arts degress,
recent high school grads, english as a 2nd language
folks, 3rd graders, maybe see my thoughts as disorganized.

Is there a better way for me to type my posts than
in this teeny small box?

Thanks,
John

Re: BACK button

Posted by Dr. Bob on March 6, 2002, at 8:27:14

In reply to spelling handicapping quality of information, posted by JohnX2 on March 6, 2002, at 2:41:56

> Big problem is my netscape box on my pc is really
> small and I can type in it submit my post,
> get a nice big snapshot of all my blunders on the
> screen, click on the BACK button, find out I lost my post
> information 20% of the time and cuss.

One reason I changed the posting system was to deal with this. Now you don't have to use the "back" button, you can just revise your post further down on the preview page. :-)

> Is there a better way for me to type my posts than
> in this teeny small box?

The thing is, it may be teeny for you, but it may be the right size for someone else. And better too small than too large (in which case the person would need to scroll back and forth horizontally).

Bob

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