You are certainly right. I should have had my wife check my spelling. She is better than any Spell Check. I may have other errors. Norm
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Janssen" <ejans...@chipsnet.com> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: Re: KR>capitalization and punctuation -AND spelling > Norm, > > I think "coma" should be "comma". :o) Isn't all this fun? :o) 'Course I > think I AM going into a coma over all this. > > Ed Janssen > mailto:ejans...@chipsnet.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norm Seel" <norman.s...@verizon.net> > To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:40 AM > Subject: Re: KR>capitalization and punctuation > > > > "day, and got several"- I don't believe there should be a coma after day, > > unless the sentence reads "and I got". It is probably time for me to get > > flamed. Norm > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > > To: "KR builders and pilots" <kr...@mylist.net> > > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:07 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html
