Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT language stuff (was Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <969kqsFjduU5@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1308602793 19510 84.45.235.129 (20 Jun 2011 20:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:46:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5433 On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:19:56 +0000, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: > In article , Arved Sandstrom > wrote: > >> I blame lack of reading >> for this problem; it's not possible to make these mistakes (or for that >> matter, to be a bad speller, period) if you read voraciously. > > You think? I sometimes wonder if some people's brains are wired to care > about spelling, and others' aren't. > I'm with Arved here: quite a lot of mistakes would appear to indicate the author is an almost illiterate person who listens more than he reads, e.g writing 'your' instead of 'you're'. A lot of the more (to me) irritating habits are probably the result of not realising that spoken idiom differs from written, e.g. using 'of' in place of 'with' - this seems to be a North American habit. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |