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genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
edited August 2011 in General Banter
The practice of Buddhism is largely a practice of attention ... attention to mistakes, for example, and responsibility in correcting those mistakes as best possible.

Little and large ... attention. Attention to attachments, for example ... and also 'atachments.'
Attention to Buddha and to 'Budda.'

Attention is pretty much what you were told in the third grade: If you can't get the little stuff right, you can forget about nailing down the big stuff. :)

Comments

  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Is this apropos of anything in particular, genkaku? Look, I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar myself, but I hold my tongue on this forum in the interests of fostering a free exchange of ideas. I make an effort to loosen up and not cling to perfectionism so as not to antagonize people. Besides, sometimes I don't have time to review my posts, sometimes I have limited computer time, so I've been known to have errors in my posts, just like everyone else. So due to all the above reasons, I've let go of the issue. Nitpicking doesn't make for good friendships, and doesn't encourage dialogue. :-/ meh...
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Lots of people here aren't native English speakers. Cut them some slack..

  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    OK ... misspell to your heart's content.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Okay, I shall endeavor to do so at every opportuntiy.

  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    Forget English, have you seen people's Sanskrit ? My goodness people do not know their 'a' from their 'ā'

    अवहासार्थं :buck:
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Shameful.
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Stop showing off, zid. (Actually, I'm impressed: aren't computers cool? You can access fonts for any language! Even Chinese, which doesn't have an alphabet, just an infinite number of character combinations, so I don't know how they ever developed a font, not to mention typewriters...!)
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Chinese typewriters are really HUGE... :)
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    Chinese typewriters are really HUGE... :)
    :)
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    I'm terrible with my grammar, but I'm a perfectionist with my spelling!:) LOL! But great points! Very great points!
    Thanks for the reminder!
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    I am a proofreader and copy-editor by profession, so for a small consideration I will happily iron out anybody's spelling and grammar lapses prior to posting.

    :D :hiding: :rolleyes:
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Now Vix... their is no knead for that. We all now that speeling and gramar isn't problem's for most people :)
  • zenffzenff Veteran
    I do the best I can using Google-translate and Windows spell check. Google translate says it is called a spell check. But is a spell not some kind of magic? A kind of magic or a kind off magic? Both are correct says the spell check. When both are correct than what should I do? Than or then?

    That’s the kind of struggle we go through.
    Pleas (?) point out my mistakes in a PM.
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    This reminds me of the German EU joke ...


    The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

    As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

    In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

    The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

    There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

    In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

    Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

    Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

    By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

    During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

    Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

    Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
  • CloudCloud Veteran
    ROFLMAO! That's seriously funny, ending up sounding German anyway. :)
  • zenffzenff Veteran
    Jes, zounds gut! :D
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    edited August 2011
    Now Vix... their is no knead for that.
    Sea? Awl you knead is spell-check! Problem salved!
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    @Mountains and @Dakini...

    ...definitely not thinking un-Buddhist thoughts...

    ...honest...

    ...and DEFINITELY haven't broken the 4th precept in writing this post.

    :D
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Definately :)
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    The 4th precept? Is that the "Thou Shalt Not Misspell" one?
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    edited August 2011
    Yep. It's the one that comes right after Thou Shalt Not Use Apostrophes When Pluralising Nouns, Thou Shalt Not Say 'Yourself' When Thou Dost Mean 'You', and Thou Shalt Use Either A Colon Or A Dash, But Not Both Together.

    :nyah:
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Useing to many apostrophe's isn't to big of a problem for me myself. It definately is for some other's though!
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Yep. It's the one that comes right after Thou Shalt Not Use Apostrophes When Pluralising Nouns, Thou Shalt Not Say 'Yourself' When Thou Dost Mean 'You', and Thou Shalt Use Either A Colon Or A Dash, But Not Both Together.
    :bowdown:

    Don't forget; thou shalt not use objective pronouns as the subject of a sentence. ;)


  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    Don't forget; thou shalt not use objective pronouns as the subject of a sentence. ;)
    Except when thou dost use the passive form of the verb, of course.

  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Obviously. :)
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    lǣtan ūsic ācweþan getrēowe Engle, ic geteohhian :D
  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    The one time I made a comment about a member's spelling, a mod let me know that this type of comment isn't appropriate. Gripe about spelling at your own risk.
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Trying to keep it light hearted, we have to understand that not everyone here speaks English as their native tongue. And even those of us who do often have trouble. English isn't the easiest of languages in which to master spelling and grammar. Rules? We don't need no stinking rules!
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Plus, some people post from phones and other hand-held devices, so it can be difficult to proofread their posts. I think we can all loosen up and be understanding of the variety of challenges members face, having a non-native knowledge of English being just one among several.
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited September 2011
    plis sime pwople tupe fadter tham yhey van rhink, whoch ;eads ti s lit od mostakes.

    yoi knoe whar u meam :p
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    Anyway since this is an international forum lets use an international language.

    .-.. . - ... / .- .-.. .-.. / ... - .- .-. - / ..- ... .. -. --. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .

    .-- .... .- - / -.. --- / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / - .... .. -. -.- / .- -... --- ..- - / .. - / ..--..
    :rolleyes:
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    edited September 2011
    Rules? We don't need no stinking rules!
    Ah, the irony! :D

  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Yeah, I'm real ironic :)
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    Anyway since this is an international forum lets use an international language
    Ni estas ir al paroli Esperanton? (Are we going to speak Esperanto?)
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    edited September 2011
    You were reading my mind, Mts. i was going to post about Esperanto, but I restrained myself. Speaking of international languages, and all...
    But the reality is that for now, English is the international language, for better or for worse.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    I refuse to spell correctly. I am stubborn like that. Seriously I don't know if its being away from school....buuuut since I have been on antipsychotic and mood stabilizer medicines I have been misspelling sound alike words quite a bit.. And then there are those words that I cannot break my habit and cannot be bothered to use a dictionary or any software, haha. I did learn how to spell sEpArAtE however. (not seperate)
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited September 2011
    Anyway since this is an international forum lets use an international language
    Ni estas ir al paroli Esperanton? (Are we going to speak Esperanto?)
    01001110011011110010000001001001001000000
    11000010110110100100000011001110110111101
    10100101101110011001110010000001110100011
    01111001000000111001101110000011001010110
    00010110101100100000011010010110111000100
    000011000100110100101101110011000010111001
    001111001001011000010000001100010011001010
    110001101100001011101010111001101100101001
    000000110010101110110011001010111001001111
    001011011110110111001100101001000000110101
    101101110011011110111011101110011001000000
    1101000110100001100001011101000010000001110
    1000110100001101001011100110010000001101001
    01110011001000000111010001101000011001010010
    00000111010101101110011010010111011001100101
    01110010011100110110000101101100001000000110
    110001100001011011100110011101110101011000010
    11001110110010100101110
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited September 2011
    Seems ASCII art does not work :(
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    If you have to ASCII the question.... :)
  • vixthenomadvixthenomad
    I think this should be the new international language:

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