[Elecraft] OT: signature lines

[Don Wilhelm]

While I can be forgiving for most of those kind of errors, it saddens me 
when I run across a communication from someone who is supposed to be 
teaching my grandchildren filled with incorrect usage of the language, 
including spelling errors, errors in sentence structure or syntax errors.

I have noticed that in newspaper quotes, emails, and 'official' school 
communications.  If those educators are either so sloppy to create such 
errors (or really do not understand the rules of the language), I get a 
negative impression of the level of communications skills that are being 
taught to our children.

That has nothing to do with the typos that are caused by 'keyboards' 
that are too small for fingers.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/12/2013 10:47 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> With the advent of messaging such as e-mail, "conversation" has moved from
> the spoken to the written word, along with all of the mistakes one hears
> daily in conversations.
>
> I am careful when I write a formal letter. Here I'm talking and I often
> notice, with a chuckle, how I sometimes mangle the English (or is it
> "American"?) language.
>
> 73 Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rick Bates
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:33 PM
> To: Bruce Beford
> Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: signature lines
>
> Typos or improper spelling or the incorrect words are always inevitable.
> Proper grammar errors are yet more likely.
>
> You're, your, yore; wear, where, we're, weir ...
>
> Get over it. ;-)
>
> Rick wa6nhc
>
> Tiny iPhone 5 keypad, typos are inevitable
>
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:10 PM, "Bruce Beford" <bruce.beford at myfairpoint.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently seen on an Elecraft e-list post:
>>
>> "Tiny iPhone 5 keypad, typos are inevitable"
>>
>> Incorrect. Typos are entirely "evitable"... It's a telephone. use a
>> real keyboard. ;-) 73, Bruce N1RXX
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