From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Feb 10 19:45:27 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1B2jRE0007808; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:45:27 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1B2jRRS019018 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:45:27 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1B0GoFI010409 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:16:50 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1B0GoWO010408 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:16:50 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1AIoPFI009835 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:50:25 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1ALIq99013525 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:18:52 -0700 X-Envelope-From: GenBrd@aol.com Fri Feb 10 14:18:52 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1ALIqE0013514 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:18:52 -0700 Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com (imo-d23.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.137]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1ALIoO9017808 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:18:51 -0700 Received: from GenBrd@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.1c2.39df222d (63024) for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:18:33 -0500 (EST) From: GenBrd@aol.com Message-ID: <1c2.39df222d.311e5d28@aol.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:18:32 EST To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Why should? - oh my... We must NEVER forget that there are people here of different educational backgrounds, different ethnic backgrounds, from different countries, age is also a factor. Vision, learning disabilities, lack of education in much younger years; the list of reasons goes on and on.. My grandmother was an extremely intelligent woman who spent her days reading and trying to learn everything about any topic you could imagine. She was raised speaking German in a Minnesota town, and was forced to quit school in the 6th grade to help support her family. She could talk you under the table on many subjects but her spelling was atrocious. She just never learned. If someone corrected her, she was embarrassed because it made her feel stupid. Sometimes she would ask us to write things down for her so that she could learn the proper spelling and grammar, but it was difficult to overcome the German grammar rules, which are very different than English. Today, based on what I saw as an adult, I would say my grandmother was also dyslexic. I could write a word and she could not copy it. But ignorant? Absolutely NOT. Please don't judge those that you do not know. BTW - you spelled beginning wrong. Ironic wouldn't you say? Jo in MN In a message dated 2/6/2006 7:02:35 P.M. Central Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:51:45 -0800 (PST) From: Eugene Stackhouse Subject: Why should people help you? **** not why but Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #54Re I have been on these lists since their begining and never heard that correcting grammar and spelling is poor netiquette. It certainly isn't rude. I used to correct such people but I have given it up because those who use incorrect spelling and grammar do not want instruction and prefer to wallow in ignorance. I simply never answer queries in which there are many such errors, on any list.