ORIGINAL: ooblecaboodle

It's far more likely as is hinted at in the quoted article, that whoever was the contracted engineer, editor, musician or whatever who was employed to create the sounds was using cracked software.
I'd also love to hear what MS had to say about this, just out of curiosity really...

And that is exactly the point, NOTHING has been said! Even in the link that stevepow provided(thanks!) a lame excuse was given. I also don't believe that MS would knowingly allow the use of cracked software by it's development team. But it's also apparent that MS is reluctant to adhere to the rigorous standards it seeks to apply to others or else we would know precisely how that metadata got into it's flagship product. When the Lead Product Manager's explanation is that they were simply unsuccesful at completely purging the evidence, what the heck does that mean? So after seven years all we have is just speculation? So if the 800lb gorilla came after you would ignorance be a suitable defence?

im sitting here at work sipping tea

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are you a closet englishman?

I think we should know

pmsl


PS how do you do quotes properly?

ive tried that but only puts quote marks how do you put a specific quote in?


and enough of your haggis eating smart a**e-ery

ORIGINAL: Mick

Yeah, and let me tell you what that reason is. It's so certain ****s can convince themselves and act like they're better than certain other people. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with communication, and if you doubt that, take a stroll through the forum and see if you can find any examples of spelling mistakes that prevented the misspeller from communicating whatever he was trying to communicate.

You are very wrong! If you want to scare away non-native speakers, then wrong spelling and bad grammar are actually a good way to accomplish this. Why would someone post if they don't care whether or not they're understood?

FWIW: When I began to participate in some international forums a few years ago, I was really having a hard time figuring out the meaning of some posts. Example: the use of "of" instead of "have". It was only by accident and after a long time that I found out about this one - and only because another native(!) speaker was complaining about it. Still I have to read many posts 2-4 times because of the screwed language. Many times I try to look up a certain word I don't know (and can't figure out from context), and guess what: I friggin' cant fimd it becuse it was miss-pelled! Sure, I don't have to read here, but that brings us back to square one, no?

Sorry for the ongoing OT, but views like the one you expressed above are just plain arrogant in my book. And it has absolutely nothing to do with "freedom of speech" either.

werner

FWIW:

My Phi Beta Kappa, English major daughter is now going for her Master's degree in Library Science and - - - - Is a terrible speller.
Additionally, I interface with a considerable number of the generation immediately behind me and find that spelling simply isn't that important.
Blame it on the schools, Nintendo or text messaging, it doesn't matter. It's just there. I myself, am guilty of being less careful when I chat, and a click of the return key imbeds your errors in virtual concrete. I'm not going to waste my time correcting every line I write in haste.

The culture constantly moves the bar of acceptance and it looks as if Spelling Champs may indeed be a rarity in the future. This doesn't mean we'll become a society of "slack-jawed yokels" (meaning no disrespect to anyone) It just means on an average we won't spell too well. I'm sure in spite of poor spelling we will continue to invent, express, prosper and cure.

My 2 cents

Ed

*sigh*

On cracked code:

Micro$oft is going to do what they will, and the courts will only be able to do so much to them, and none of it entirely effect. It's a shame, but economic pressure is going to dictate the final outcome of this one because of the golden rule: they that have the gold, rule. So, while I recognize the principle's validity (having cracked code in your product is not right), I resist the urge to become over-wrought because all it's going to do is raise my blood pressure for no conceivable benefit. Go back and read news stories from the last 10 to 12 years about various attempts to bring Micro$oft to heel on anti-trust issues -- e.g. the flap perhaps 10 years ago over whether or not Internet Explorer was unfairly thrust upon the PC-using public. Despite much evidence that it was in fact an unfairly-thrust product, MS simply took what lumps they could not avoid, and rewrote Windows' code so that you cannot remove the browser without killing Windows. Unfortunately, so much of the world survives on Windows and Windows-based software that the odds of a truly righteous change on MS's behalf are somewhere between slim and none -- and Slim's left town!

On spelling, dyslexia, and related silliness:

I'm sorry to see that this thread has devolved into hard/hurt feelings. Though I come late to the table on this one, let me enter a plea: LET THERE BE PEACE IN THIS PLACE!

I suppose that between being not only a theologian but also a trained writer, I've become something of a wordsmith over the years. I'm certainly capable of getting myself into all sorts of contortions over the subtleties of language... but here, on this forum, I think the more important question to ask is, "are we COMMUNICATING?" I could take CJ's posts apart with a fine-tooth comb and come up with all sorts of criticism, but WHY? He communicates effectively, and I am able to understand him. For here, in this place, in these kinds of discussions, that's more than enough.

Cheers,

Russ

so lets all just shut the hell up, get drunk and listen to Pantera.

or watch Shrek once again

If you play Pantera backwards, you can hear Shrek imploring you to "Kill the stupid donkey, Kill the stupid donkey..."

ORIGINAL: Honest_Al

ORIGINAL: jinga8

If you play Pantera backwards, you can hear Shrek imploring you to "Kill the stupid donkey, Kill the stupid donkey..."

..and do I need the Deepzone version of Soundforge for doing that? first i'll need to "grab" some Pantera stuff from one of those file sharing places...ehhm..

Coyboys from hell!,,,, no wait.... Great southern trendkill!! (I'm screaming at ya, you just dont know it )

I had a bad case of 名 难语症 a few months ago. My doctor gave me some 名 难 but it just made things worse and now my 名难语 is 名难语症 名 难语症.

ORIGINAL: ooblecaboodle

I'm sorry to say, but apparently, there is dyslexia amongst the Chinese.

No there isn't, they have 名 难语症

silly boy!!

It really wasn't his fault. When I answered his questionaire about my medical history, I mispelled "headache" as "headake" and he was totally unable to understand what I was trying to say.

ORIGINAL: jinga8

I had a bad case of 名 难语症 a few months ago. My doctor gave me some 名 难 but it just made things worse and now my 名难语 is 名难语症 名 难语症.

Mick, Mick, Mick...What doctor would give you difficult to treat famous logopathy? That's just ludicrous...Freakin quack healers...

Firefox has a nice automatic spell checker built in for anyone that wishes to have their posts checked on the fly... live update kind of like MS Word.

Other than that, who cares about misspelling as long as it wasn't "shorthand" or "on-purpose" other than the usual IMO, AFAIK stuff. Spelling is overrated.

Hmm, just thought, does that look like chinese writing in anybody else's browsers?
I would have assumed so until i got this email...

Mick at 5/1/2007 1:39:02 PM

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ORIGINAL: ooblecaboodle

I'm sorry to say, but apparently, there is dyslexia amongst the Chinese.
No there isn't, they have 名 és¾è¯­ç-?

silly boy!!

In that email, it's clearly not chinese writing!

Would everyone please just stop this whole embarrisng discussion. No harm to me was done by anyone anf lets just move on from this.
Cj