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DESCENT COMMUNITY
Oh and BTW use your Online Nickname..... thank you
Where are you in the DESCENT COMMUNITY
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BUBBALOU
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Where are you in the DESCENT COMMUNITY
I seem to have a better workout dodging your stupidity than attempting to grasp the weight of your intelligence.
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OOOH! I'm so glad I get to laugh out loud at Bubba putting an \"r\" on the end of \"You\" to make a stupid sentence. And in the title no less. Bad Bubba. Bad!
Actually Bubba, you need to hire the Australian movie \"Bad Boy Bubby\" - I know you'll get a kick out of it: http://imdb.com/title/tt0106341/
Nice map BTW.
Actually Bubba, you need to hire the Australian movie \"Bad Boy Bubby\" - I know you'll get a kick out of it: http://imdb.com/title/tt0106341/
Nice map BTW.
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I made a post just for you Mobius.Mobius wrote:OOOH! I'm so glad I get to laugh out loud at Bubba putting an "r" on the end of "You" to make a stupid sentence. And in the title no less. Bad Bubba. Bad!
Actually Bubba, you need to hire the Australian movie "Bad Boy Bubby" - I know you'll get a kick out of it: http://imdb.com/title/tt0106341/
Nice map BTW.
From the post referenced by Topher:
certainly help by pointing out errors and giving suggestions, but good spelling
and grammar are not everything that makes a document readable.
Besides the appropriate division of text into paragraphs (computers cannot
yet do that for you), there is, for example, the issue of line length. If the lines
get too long, the transition between them will become difficult, as you'll have
to start searching where the next line actually is when reading such a text.
Everyone has probably resumed reading at the wrong `next' line some time,
and perhaps you've even had to use a ruler to help keeping track of which line
you were reading at. This indicates poor text formatting as such texts are hard
(or at least annoying) to read.
Almost every Word document I've seen so far has long lines, and left-justified,
non-hyphenated text (and those which are justified have horrible spacing).
This makes them annoying to read and gives them quite an unprofessional
look. Why is this still the case to this day? Because the standard is set so low
that nobody notices it anymore?
The same goes for OpenOffice, which seems to copycat Office as much as
possible in order to make a transition easier.
Yet, there is free software (in both senses) available that can professionally
typeset your documents, and it's already quite old. It seems to me that word
processors should finally start using it as a reference for good typesetting
practices.
...And finally, spelling checkers aren't perfect either.
There's something I should add here: spelling checkers and auto-correctionEvery email and document does not need to be a literary work of art, it just needs to be easy to read. If you use Outlook and Word, you already get the benefits of a spell checker and auto-correct.
certainly help by pointing out errors and giving suggestions, but good spelling
and grammar are not everything that makes a document readable.
Besides the appropriate division of text into paragraphs (computers cannot
yet do that for you), there is, for example, the issue of line length. If the lines
get too long, the transition between them will become difficult, as you'll have
to start searching where the next line actually is when reading such a text.
Everyone has probably resumed reading at the wrong `next' line some time,
and perhaps you've even had to use a ruler to help keeping track of which line
you were reading at. This indicates poor text formatting as such texts are hard
(or at least annoying) to read.
Almost every Word document I've seen so far has long lines, and left-justified,
non-hyphenated text (and those which are justified have horrible spacing).
This makes them annoying to read and gives them quite an unprofessional
look. Why is this still the case to this day? Because the standard is set so low
that nobody notices it anymore?
The same goes for OpenOffice, which seems to copycat Office as much as
possible in order to make a transition easier.
Yet, there is free software (in both senses) available that can professionally
typeset your documents, and it's already quite old. It seems to me that word
processors should finally start using it as a reference for good typesetting
practices.
...And finally, spelling checkers aren't perfect either.
Yeah, but I was mainly referring to printed documents. You can't just reformat
them by resizing some window. And longer texts such as articles will have 4+
lines per paragraph anyway.
TeX has other problems too (e.g. obscurity of error messages), but that
doesn't mean its typesetting shouldn't be used as an example.
them by resizing some window. And longer texts such as articles will have 4+
lines per paragraph anyway.
TeX has other problems too (e.g. obscurity of error messages), but that
doesn't mean its typesetting shouldn't be used as an example.
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DarkShadow
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Which is why Word 2007 has contextual spell checking.The Lion wrote:...And finally, spelling checkers aren't perfect either.
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Oooooooooh! That locks handy!Topher wrote:Which is why Word 2007 has contextual spell checking.The Lion wrote:...And finally, spelling checkers aren't perfect either.
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Yo! Been a while. Welcome back!SirWinner wrote:Done.
Yea yea, I know... I've been very busy and don't get here very much any more.
Great to see the community alive and kicking.
