LMAO!!!!!!

[whopis01]

29. I did read it.

There really is no need to be rude. It does very little aid the discussion.

I understood your point about all the lost time. However, for me, it still does not take away from the message at all. The communication of the idea is accomplished equally well with or without the mistake.

Would it have been better on the author's part to have not had the mistake there? Certainly, at least for aesthetic purposes. Would it have taken much more effort to eliminate it? No, likely it would not have. I agree with you in that sense. However I still stand by my assertion that it does not take away from the message.

I think back to when I was in grad school and worked with a post-doc who was from China. He struggled quite a lot with English (at least for the first couple years he was here) and he could be quite difficult to understand. However, he was quite brilliant and once he got his message across the prior difficulties in no way took away from it.

I realize that is a bit more of an extreme example than a simple misspelling. But I think the idea that communication is more than and quite separate from the medium holds true for it.

But in the end this is, of course, just my opinion.