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Nick-the-spellchecker has once again reminded us that he has earned
Brownie-points with the Spelling Police, though still trailing a distant third
-- behind all-star leaders, Edward Winter and Larry Parr.

To put these petty spelling corrections of his (of offhand newsgroup
postings) into somewhat better perspective, I will note that today, while I was
reading a major newspaper published on dead-tree media for *tens of thousands*
to read, I saw one article where whole words had been ommitted, and a crucial
comma had been misplaced -- thereby changing the meaning of an entire sentence
so as to make the entire editorial piece fall apart! Of course, an astute
reader can simply figure out the correct, intended meanings by looking at the
context, but this showed that there had been no real proofreading prior to
publication.

I also spotted several such crude errors in various, sizeable advertisements,
which no doubt cost those companies a pretty penny.
Here, it would seem that the newspaper had blundered, for such advertizing is
its primary source of profit.

To my mind, this just goes to show that there is a terrible shortage of
decent spell-checkers in the real world, and a corresponding overabundance on
these chess newsgroups, where their difficult, hard work is little appreciated,
and not even compensated!



Now StanB has added misspelling words in Swahili, such as
as "mizunge" (sic),


Consider the possibilities -- how much might a large coproration pay for the
ability to spell-check in, not one, but *multiple* languages? What about the
London paper, or the New York Times -- could Nick not earn a fortune
translating each of these into their respective versions of English, or even
into French or German?




As I recall, StanB already has quite a record of misspelling words in
English.


Let me see. If I remember correctly, he has writ "pigin" in place of
"pidgeon," and "mizunge" --- wait a second, are we getting a bit far away from
the POINT of Stans' post? Oh, yes. But then, that was the plan, wasn't it,
Mr. petty spell-checker? Hahahaha!




StanB wrote:
Instead you twist whatever mizunge says in his disgust of you, as some
racist remark.


We have already seen other examples where "Nick-the-liar" has twisted things
to suit his purpose, as clearly demonstrated by Briarroot. Even so, his
spell-checking abilities (including Swahili!) should never be
misunderestimated.
One can't get very far in this country without a perfectly grasp of English,
as Dubya has always demonstrified in his everyday clarificationals of remarks
he may or may not have intendid as jokes, but which are always targitted by his
critiks, who envy and hate him for being so grate a president. "Every grate
man has his de-tractors!" - John Deere