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rasikanayak
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:08 pm Post subject: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Greetings Fellow hobbyists 
A loooong time ago a person decided to be a member of an premier Indian aquatic group. This was much before he joined IAH.
In all enthusiasm he registered and mailed his first post to the admin. In order to maintain the high standards of the group, The Admin himself a very accomplished aquarist used to edit every post by the members before he published them.
Now this said person mailed his first post to the admin,
dear mr kumar, i am plsed to joun your esteemd group. i lookm forwd to your guidence in fishkeeping.
Thankin you,
person.
Now since the said person knew the admin, he was full of confidence that his post would be published. He started refreshing the page with growing impatience as time went on. But nothing happened! His post was not published. Puzzled our person was about to call the Admin to find what was wrong, when he found a mail in his in-box.
To be continued.....
Regards,
P.S: Please feel free to correct any of my spelling or grammatical or punctuation errors  |
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Nick993
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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rocky2
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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apcmge
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Hi Rasik
To place my humble view in above context.
IMO, there are two types of aquarist who do spell or grammer mistake :-
1. One who is a sms generation freak, who uses sms language and grammer to communicate. Personally I dont like such languages as it kills the beauty of english and at times impossible to decipher .
2. A serious aquarist who is enthusiastic about this hobby and could be a treasure trove of knowledgre too, but is uncomfortable in communicating in english.
Again in my humble opinion, second type of aquarists should be encourages and welcome, despite of their limited knowledge of english.
Above qouted example could be a casually written mail or a case of limited knowledge of english.
On a personal level , I too support rule of pure and good english, but hope it doesnt dicourage hobbyists who have limited knowledge of it.
Regards
Sanjay Dubey |
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bmvbab
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Or he might be  (Do we have any no and IAH rule?)
F5
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jaival
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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+1 with sanjay,
but as he stated that person who is eager to learn and has knowledge but limited knowledge in english how will he communicate ? he/she will fear from posting as people will make fun of them...
i am in contact with person who has a same problem, he was brought up in his village and dosnt know english. but is hobbyist and can spend handsome amount in his aquariums.
so every other day he mails me or call me up for his probs
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rasikanayak
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Continued.....
The person found the mail in the in-box to be from the Admin of the Aquarist group.
It read.....
Dr Mr Person,
What atrocious English! A kindergarten kid would be able to write better than you! Aren't you ashamed to even forward such a poorly worded message to anybody?
Kindly recheck your message, correct all the errors and re-send it to me.
Regards,
Mr Admin.
The person was flabbergasted. It was a very very long time since someone had addressed him in such a blunt and brutal manner. As would with anybody, he felt his temper rising. Who the hell bloody cares? After all it is a hobby, isn't it? It was not as if he was writing his Resume or any papers for clients, customers or professors.
But then as mentioned before, he knew and respected the Admin of the Aquarist group. So the person decided to swallow his ire and re-post again. So the second mail was sent to the Admin.....
Dear mr kumar, i am pleased to join your esteemed group. i am looking forward to your guidance in fishkeeping.
Thanking you,
Regards,
person.
To be continued......
P.S: Kindly do keep those comments and your thoughts coming |
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aquarius
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Nayak,
Any possibility of the Mr Admin's real name starting with the letter "T"?
Just a wild guess! |
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aquamann
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Great post Nayak. Some of the IAH posts are hard for me to understand. I guess I have always been a bit anti-sms.
When I originally joined IAH, it was a rule not to use sms language. I can understand some of the grammatical errors but the
shortened words are really unnecessary. |
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Eemakoochi
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Some days later, some one might get the same kind of message from the Admin saying:
Dear YOU,
Stop making your presense by just posting some junk Smileys only. Yes, this would count to your post count, but donot make unecessary updates if you dont have anything else to say than a Smiley.
This is not a IAH rule. But this is still a good practice.
Yours,
Admin
P.S. This is not for everyone, because for some posts we are forced to post a smiley only, but not for some 20 to 30 posts everyday with just a Smiley  . If you want to Like or +1 we have Facebook or Google+  |
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Yogesh
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:09 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Wonderful topic to read after a long time and that too coming from a master-writer.
Reading badly-spelled words, my eyes really get sore. Specially when our poor old Kerala Queen denisonii is spelled as danysony, danasoni or danasonic. Yes Yes!! All of these have left their mark on IAH. |
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Tabby
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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Some posters are ignorant, some are plain handicapped, some experienced, some are quick adapters and some are qualified data mines! All this makes for great fishy camaraderie. Or maybe sometimes not?
This is a fun post indeed. |
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jitu613
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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| jaival wrote (View Post):
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i am in contact with person who has a same problem, he was brought up in his village and dosnt know english. but is hobbyist and can spend handsome amount in his aquariums.
so every other day he mails me or call me up for his probs
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Right say Jaival.
its me..who mail you for help. |
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jaival
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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| no jitu bro, there is some other hobbyist i am in contact with |
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Severumkid
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: To spell or not to spell!!!! |
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| where is it leading to? |
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