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reading hamer & hamer (was: theoretical glaze question)

updated tue 1 apr 03

 

Ababi on mon 31 mar 03


>Janet Kaiser - BTW Ababi, you could have a go at teaching your e-mail
>client (or babelfish?) that "hamer" is not a mistake and does not need to
>be changed to "hammer"
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No Janet it was not the dictionary. I keep the book in the studio, I had to look in the
net to see the right name and I was too lazy. My dictionary fixes for me some hard to
pronounce words
Ababi

Janet Kaiser on mon 31 mar 03


You gave me a jolly good laugh, Ababi! Thanks! It is like the old joke
about the little chap who told his teacher he was reading the dictionary
like she told him to. "So how are you getting?" asked the teacher. "Well,
to tell the truth, Miss, the story line is a bit hard to follow... I think
it would be much better if they did not keep explaining the words".

Sincerely

Janet Kaiser - BTW Ababi, you could have a go at teaching your e-mail
client (or babelfish?) that "hamer" is not a mistake and does not need to
be changed to "hammer". It takes a very long time, which is why a computer
death/re-format is an absolute pain in the whatnot, but with patience you
can teach your user dictionary all the names and words in common use. So
Mel does not get auto-corrected into Gel, Arti stays that way and is not
become Antimatter and so on... I am still teaching my e-mail to spell in
German and Welsh as well as UK English, seeing it only has a US English
dictionary. And as I am using Micro$oft, Adobe and Calypso that means there
are three user dictionaries all at various stages of instruction. Why on
earth there cannot be a "shared dictionary" is beyond me!


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>Hammer and Hammer is a great book but I would not read it all, I would
read there
>what I need - this is the kind of book dictionary - but you are you. I can
tell that the
>only thing amazed me in the Periodic Table was the fact that the ceramic
materials
>are neighbors.
>snip<
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