Thanks Mark........that was long over due. May I also emphasize two words "SPELL CHECK" it really is not that hard to do guys!!!
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:07 PM Subject: KR>capitalization and punctuation > NetHeads, > > I made a fairly snide remark about keyboards and periods the other day, and > got several comments on it. Most thought it was long overdue, and quite > appropriate, but one said I'd been way too hard on the guy, that I must be > some kind of frustrated English teacher, and he basically thought I was out > of line for "flaming" him. > > I understand that some people just can't spell. Engineers are famous for > that. But I simply can't believe that there are people who can't grasp the > concept capitalizing the first word of a sentence, and putting a period at > the end of a sentence. If you can read, surely you can manage these two > feats. But I'll take his word for it and offer the following advice for > those who didn't learn the basics in second grade: > > Sentences are groups of words that express a concept. The beginning of each > new sentence has a "capital" letter. That means that you hit the "shift" > key on your keyboard right before and during striking the key that will be > the first word of your sentence, and you'll end up with a large "capital" > letter beginning your sentence. The other thing to grasp is that when your > concept (sentence) ends, you put a period, or dot (located near the lower > right corner of your keyboard). These two visual queues greatly facilitate > (help) the reader to understand what it is you're trying to say. > > However, I suspect that it is not ignorance, but pure laziness and > inconsideration that leads to this behavior. The writer is too lazy to > bother spending the extra few seconds it takes to capitalize words and end > sentences with periods. He saves a few seconds on the message, and then > causes four hundred readers to scratch their heads and read the paragraph > four times to decipher their code. Often, the reader walks away having no > idea what the writer was trying to say, or deciding that whatever it was, it > was probably senseless anyway. If you add up all the time that was wasted > trying to read these posts, you end up with at least an hour of wasted KR > productivity, all so some inconsiderate dolt could save a few seconds > pecking out a message. It all boils down to pure inconsideration, in my > humble opinion, and ignoring the other "rules" of this list are right up > there with it. > > Some day I'm going to snap, and start throwing people off the list for > refusing to delete the previous five posts to which they are replying. > Again, pure inconsideration for the other members of the list. I'm not far > from giving up here... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html >
