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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (509)	1/4/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: jan_mike	Respond to of 4711

Jeff and all - Re intelligent appearing researchers and stock pickers with bad grammar and spelling. One reason I try not to discriminate on that issue is my son, who is four. He is smart as the dickens, but has a language processing disorder which is a learning "difference" as they are now PC called. He could do things at 2 that bright 4 year olds can't do, but will need special teaching to learn to read and write. He may or may not ever achieve an advanced level for these skills, but his overall test scores are average. As that indicates, some of his other skills are off the charts. Didn't mean to preach in the least here. Just thought it was an interesting perspective. I may be taking his advice one day! I won't have him check my papers though. Best to all, Mike

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (509)	1/4/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4711

No cheating! sentex.net

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (509)	1/4/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

OFF TOPIC Regardless of what 'seems to be', I still think that people just tend to mistype. If you were to receive a resume that had spelling errors I would think that the person might not take the time to use a checker. Here on SI, I am more persuaded to believe that someone responded quickly with a concept....not an exercise in his/her mastery of a dictionary. In brief, I would rather see a well thought out post on why the market must go down (up) than than some twit telling me that the person should know that ASIAN is not spelled ASIEN. After all, it's ego no matter how one looks at it. We are not running a newspaper here. This is Silicon Investor. As long as someone is able to put across the concept of what that person's thought processes are then that is what is important. Personally, if it were to make me money, I do not care if they spell cat with a "k". Annoying traders by telling them they are unfamiliar with the king's english (I use lower case because the auld man was an Irish Provo) trivializes the message. It allows us to get caught up in an issue that is of no consequence. Anyway....if (PLEASE) no one responds to me I will leave this thread in peace. If y'all wanna groove on da latest stuff put down by my hom' boys, we can 411 where it's at. For my own part I have a few games of chess to play...I graduated from a couple of engineering schools so I'm used to illiterate people. From now on, I'm cancelling my subscription to the....revolution... and the NY Times, US News, The Economist, et cetera...The Soft Parade has now begun....listen to the engines hum.... It's hard to impress a child of the '60s with pretentious BS.