P defends V. ...

[alice wellintown]

Fascinating thing about the symbols we use to communicate. You know,
nine out of ten dentists can read A hakespeare drummer minus the
vowels. Shakespeare, by the buy, wrt hs plys bfr nglsh spllng ws
stndrdzd. Another not so surprizing fact, people who know the least
about language, how it works, how complex it is, are more likely to
criticize the insignifican errors, the ones that do not prevent or
even slow down communication. But is speed a human virtue? Is
efficiency? Does the order of letters and words, does syntax and
grammar, matter as much as we once thought? Grammar, like DNA, is a
discrete compinatorial system. So sez Pinker. And, though I'm sure
some here can make Pinker look the fool on some of his ideas, this one
is, even if not exactly accurate, a most fascinating one to consider.
In the beginning there was only God and the Void. In the beginning
there was the Word. This kinda thinking about  the Void and the Adams
(sp?) is Greek, of course, but the wonderful thing about words is that
they keep on fluxing like thar river you can't step into twice and the
wonderful thing about education is that most people think they have
enough of it because they can use a kinged spell chequer.

Another fascinaing art tickle from THEIR newpaper:

Sweet Talking Your Computer
Why people treat devices like humans; saying nice things to a machine
to protect its 'feelings'

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Terri wrote:
>
>> w dn't evn nd vwls t cmmnct wth chrncy.
>
> Won't somebody tell me what chrncy means?
>
> Or should I not mess with ti?
>
>