From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Wed Mar 28 08:07:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca X-Apparently-To: lojban@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 16:07:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 89266 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 16:06:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 16:06:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 16:06:35 -0000 Received: (from rlpowell@localhost) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id LAA20927 for lojban@onelist.com; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:13:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:13:34 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Spelling Mistakes [was Re: [lojban] The ease of IRC] Message-ID: <20010328111333.L11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@onelist.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from DoubleC@acc.co.nz on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:09:35PM +1200 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell 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 -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. Information wants to be free. Too bad most of it is crap. --RLP