From: "Speaking Clock" Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien References: Subject: ELF (was Re: LOTR film) Keywords: world X-No-archive: yes Lines: 30 Organization: . X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:58:38 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.177.159 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1012172391 62.252.177.159 (Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:59:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:59:51 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.mailgate.org!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!peernews!peer.cwci.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:74587 "Aris Katsaris" wrote > > "Gandalf Storm-Crow" wrote > > > > > Try to use correct spelling and capitalization. > > > > > > The next movie comes out December 2002. > > > > Original poster may be a speaker of a language OTHER than English and > > written the way grate sounds. > > I am a non-native speaker of English also - trying to encourage good > spelling is still a good idea, if one's polite about it. Sometimes some > people are not even trying... Maybe the original poster is speaking ELF - English as a Lingua Franca. No duff, just ask Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English, University of Vienna. The theory behind ELF is that we should be very tolerant of what native speakers would call mistakes, but which do not, however, affect comprehension between non-native speakers. ELF. Why don't I think anyone is going to believe me? LOL! (It's true.) Speaking Clock Remove mascara to reply