The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23580   Message #263509
Posted By: robroy
24-Jul-00 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Illiteracy
Subject: RE: BS: Illiteracy
I refer to all those who do or may need to utilise their spell checkers in order to ensure that their spelling is correct and of course all the other wonderful things we do with our PCs. Not sure this is too relevant but it's an interesting story. I was a Surveyor in HM Forces and we were taught how to do all the complex calculations by logrithms then later by slide rule, even later by mechanical calculating machines (Brunsviga and Twin Marchant)until finally by electronic calculating machines which got smaller and smaller and incredibly faster and more accurate. Then one day we lost all ourbatteries.... I think one day in order to communicate we may have to resort to pencil and paper. We probably won't but I'd like to think we could still communicate correctly and not misunderstand because of a common spelling error.