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Re: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC]
- To: lojban@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC]
- From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:13:34 -0500
- In-reply-to: <sac1f0bc.073@mh_acc099>; from DoubleC@acc.co.nz on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:09:35PM +1200
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:09:35PM +1200, Chris Double wrote:
> 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?
Not much of an answer, but:
It varies.
-Robin
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