On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:25, Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:18:21 +0000 peter Nikolic
wrote: Now you gunna lay off or do i get heavy ..the choice is yours folks..
Actually, you are doing yourself no favours by demonstrating your standard of written English. You are not a heavy-weight, with the best will in the world.
The Whole darn bunch of you are so childish it is really amazing to see ..how SUPPOSED full grown men get there underwear knotted so firmley around there windpipes just because someone does not go running for the sepll checker for every single word , And as for your so called diction well i personally could not give a stuff on wether or not you undwerstand ENGLISH .
I really feel incapable of commenting on this non-sense, except to say "diction" is about pronunciation , not writing, and I use a spelling checker because even my education and experience will not stop me making typing errors, or mis-spelling one of the quarter of a million words or so in English. I don't have a problem with accepting that I make errors, nor in wishing to improve. What's your problem?
Diction \Dic"tion\, n. [L. dicto a saying, a word, fr. dicere, dictum, to say; akin to dicare to proclaim, and to E. teach, token: cf. F. diction. See Teach, and cf. Benison, Dedicate, Index, Judge, Preach, Vengeance.] Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language;
If the aim of education is to make one realise how little one really knows, I guess the educational system is worse than I thought (and I think it's pretty bad).
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