Ship Prefixes WAY OFF TOPIC

> Stuart Murray writes:

@:) I don't think all of the net intends to spell badly, I know I @:) don't,
its just I'm a bad typist!

Actually there's a difference between typoists and chronic
mispellers.  I think the net has its fair share of most - far more
than one would otherwise expect to see when reading typewritten material.
Anyway typos don't usually bother me although they sometimes make text
difficult to understand. On rec.motorcycles, where the typing is fast and
furious, "the" is only not spelled "teh" by rank novices. On the other hand,
mispellings generally show that the person doing the typing can't tell the
difference between the multiple spellings. Prefix's as opposed to prefixes.
You're or they're confused with your and their or there. Which witch is which?
That sort of thing.

Worst of all are people, like one of my bosses, who combine both. First he
mispells words so that his writing is confusing but intelligible. But then he
makes tons of typos, so that his already mispelled words are now mistyped! The
net result is that about one
sentence in a hundred is completely unintelligible - literally it is
impossible to determine what he was trying to say.