Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC]

["Chris Double" <DoubleC@acc.co.nz>]

When conversing in 'real time' like IRC, what effect does spelling mistakes tend to have on understanding the conversation?

Given that gismu are five letters and a simple letter change can result in another valid gismu or in a non-gismu that could match several others depending on how you change the letters. If it results in an incorrect gismu then the various arguments (x1, x2, etc) are all different resulting in a wildly different meaning to the sentence.

Do such mistakes cause real problems or is the context of the conversation enough to sort this sort of thing out?

Chris.

>>> Value Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org> 03/28 1:50  >>>
Also, I think the spelling mistakes people make should be recorded, so
future software can predict what a certain mistake really means.