[Gllug] Light the blue touchpaper...

Richard Turner richard at zygous.co.uk
Wed Mar 17 18:18:41 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 6:08 pm, Bernard Peek wrote:
> There are the specialists who build the hardware, the specialist who
> integrate the hardware into a usable PC, the specialists who write the
> OS, the specialists who write the WP application, the specialists who
> write a spell-check plugin.
>
> Then you have the people who connect it to the Internet. Add to those
> the people who provide the electricity to power the PC, starting with
> the people who knock on your door to persuade you to change electricity
> providers, through the people who dig up the roads to lay power cables,
> the people who build the power-stations and the people who decide what
> energy source the power stations of 2014 will use.

What has that to do with people's inability to write well constructed, 
grammatically correct, spelling-error free sentences without relying on a 
computer to check that their grammar and spelling is OK?

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."
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