Texas Board of Education at it again Banning textbooks

[kennyc]

It has ceased to exist.

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Maybe you should start using spell checkers!

with you, man. Everyone makes those kind of typos (I know I do). It just seemed ironic given the topic of that post was spelling!

Well, I use so many keyboards with different locations for the keys...

Even with Windows 'standard' keyboards, some are less in width than others. The one I have at home the left arrow key is in a corner made by the enter key and the ctrl key. The keyboard i use at work, there is more distance between the ctrl key and the left arrow key.

Not as bad as what I dealt with about 1991. I had two part time jobs. One had MS-DOS, Tandy 1000 SX computers, and the other had Ampex and another brand of main frame type terminals. The university, they had the Tandy 1000s, bought keyboards by the case... what ever was cheapest. So I deal with 6 different keyboard layouts over a week's time. Function keys, arrow keys, home row keys ( dot on the G key, on another one had underscore on the K key, asterisk on the J key. All to let the user know where the home row was located.) And I had an AMiga A1000 computer, only 10 function keys. So, I'm surprised my typing doesn't have more errors.

As for misspelled words, an old Usenet ( newsgroup) saying is that no discussion about spelling will have perfect spelling for every post.

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by tompe

Sorry, I of course meant "encyclopedia" and not "dictionary".

Ah. No problem.

For me, it depended on the teacher/instructor/professor and the subject. Occasionaly a class I was in would be told we could use one encyclopedia article, but it couldn't be our main reference. Usuaully no more than one such article, most of the time not at all.

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

can we get off the wiki issue?

there is a meaty topic here that deserves discussion and having tempers blown over wiki is silly.

shall we return to the topic at hand?

Ahem.

I have a Theory ( paging Monty Python !), and it is about a Wiki, it is mine, andipso facto, it is about a wiki.

Ahem.

A Wiki is a delight,
unless it gives you a fright,
more than Halloween !

it is ipso facto,
an editable encyclopedia,
of greaaaaat vermisilitude,
it has a front page,
and links all over,
and around about,
then it ends,
somewhere about the last page.

That is my theory about An Elk, uhm, Wiki.

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by kennyc

It has ceased to exist.

Shuffled off its mortal coil !

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Joebill

Well, I use so many keyboards with different locations for the keys...

...The university, they had the Tandy 1000s, bought keyboards by the case... what ever was cheapest.

I believe I still have an old CoCo in the attic. They were great in their day. I even managed to do a few simple animations on it. Not so easy, since each pixel required a line of code of Basic to tell where to place it on the screen. And it goes a long way toward explaining why those early computer games had such yucky graphics. Then there was the old Brother word processor I owned. Everything on that was different.

Originally Posted by Joebill

As for misspelled words, an old Usenet ( newsgroup) saying is that no discussion about spelling will have perfect spelling for every post.

Very true, no doubt!