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Subject:RE: general topic of spelling From:"James Jones" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:15:32 -0500
>Great question, James, but I wonder whether you referring to human
>generated typos or spell checker mistakes, or both.
Both. I'm really trying to get a handle on the extent of the problem.
Maybe it's not really that much of a problem in the tech communication
world. I think that the topic of spelling is more of an English language
thing and I do appreciate those posts to this thread that touch on the
linguistics of the topic. But what I want to learn is the extent of the
problem in English technical communication.
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