Hi PT, Thanks! Just today, I heard a very articulate Romanian guy with a pretty thick accent on the radio, and marveled, as I have two 'second' languages that I can sort of read but couldn't speak to save my life. Yes, his consonant and vowells were distorted, but his grammar was impressive.
We folks in the United State have benefited by other nations' schooling their children in English, making the job of communicating so much easier for us. What's disturbing is that so many of them speak our language better than we do. We somehow feel entitled to be second-rate and excellence isn't respected anymore, but is regarded as 'elite' or 'anal'. This will ultimately condemn our country to the laziness and mediocrity of the second-rate. I'm dyslexic, so when my eyes are tired, the text way too small, and I'm too lazy to enlarge before writing, one nano-second after I've 'sent' I'm horrified to see my bloopers, uncaught. It feels like discovering spinach stuck in my teeth. Online, our words are our teeth and our smiles. Be well, my friend, Léna On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:13 PM, PT Ferrance wrote: > I'm with you on this one Lena. I work hard to keep my text grammatically > correct and understandable so there won't be a dozen posts asking me what I > meant. It is a sign of respect for the reader and this is a quality that is > failing in our society... In my humble opinion. > PT > > > From: Lena Guyot <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: CS>Arthritus Uh, it's spelled Arthritis... > > What can I say? Before Lyme nibbled at my brain I was a book editor! (still > am, so this edit was a freebie.) > Face it: the language is getting frayed around the edges. You'd be surprised > how hard I work on my posts to catch my own faux pas and typos: it's a mark > of respect for the reader, especially when there's the possibility that > 'N-Acetyl carnitine' was really meant to be N-Acetyl carnosine. I've seen > some scary spelling errors in some groups. > > Reading less, we tend to spell phonetically these days, and heaven forfend we > could use google to check on the spelling of a heard but unread word > (something I try to do) Sometimes, this is funny, like when someone referred > to the 'duck vile', meaning bile ducts. Between the 'ducks' and the 'gulls' > we turn from health to ornithology. The trouble is, it makes it harder for > us to be taken seriously by docs and others who might be trying to help us. > Personally, I always appreciate when someone corrects my spelling, though not > quite so appreciative to be called 'anal'. > > Be well, > Léna > On Jul 25, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Gary Hilt wrote: > >> Sorry for my faux pas but it does seen a little anal. :O) >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Lena Guyot <[email protected]> wrote: >> The thread started here, I think. It's spelled 'arthritis'. Hate to see >> errors repeated over and over again, because the more they're repeated, the >> more they look right and then we're all stuck thinking we've been >> misspelling when we haven't. In one group, the doomed word was 'gull' >> bladder. For myself, it took me almost two years to finally get >> 'ophthalmologist' right. :-) Léna >> On Jul 25, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Gary Hilt wrote: >> >>> Hi to all: im back again to find some wisdom. >>> i have 2 bad shoulders both worked on rotator etc. and both hips. i try to >>> walk with the aid of a rolling walker and i ride a bike. >>> im using Capsaisin which affords some relief and i have used DMSO little >>> help. i also use Capsaison capsules and ginger. Any ideas for Arthritic >>> pain and soreness. im 65 >>> Thank You >>> gary >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Eph 1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord >>> Jesus Christ. >>> Gary & Lennie >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Eph 1:2 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord >> Jesus Christ. >> Gary & Lennie > > >
