From DoubleC@acc.co.nz Tue Mar 27 18:12:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: DoubleC@acc.co.nz X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 02:12:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 36829 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 02:12:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 02:12:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webgw099.acc.org.nz) (203.167.220.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 02:12:39 -0000 Received: from mh_acc099 (not verified[10.99.5.50]) by webgw099.acc.org.nz with MailMarshal (4,0,9,0) id ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:14:42 +1200 Received: from ACC_DOM-Message_Server by mh_acc099 with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:10:04 +1200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.4 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:09:35 +1200 To: Subject: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: "Chris Double" 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 depen= ding on how you change the letters. If it results in an incorrect gismu the= n the various arguments (x1, x2, etc) are all different resulting in a wild= ly 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 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.