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<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 19 April 2007 - Volume 10</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">
sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2007.04.19 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q"> From: "<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk
</a>"<br>> Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2007.04.18 (02) [E]<br>><br>> Ron/Reinhard wrote:<br>> A "typo," as far as I know, is by origin not a "typing<br>> mistake" (although this would be logical) but a "typing error" -- or
<br>> so I humply submit while bracing myself for another volley from the<br>> schoolmasters' and -mistresses' corner of the room.<br>><br>> Here it comes!!!!!<br>><br>> Mistake = slip of focus/concentration; if you were thinking about it,
<br>> you wouldn't make it<br>><br>> Error = a current system or belief that is thought to be correct and<br>> so submitted as such; one man's error may be another man's delight.<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"Error" is a word I don't use in speech, only in writing. If I use it in<br>speech it'll be because I'm repeating something I've read.<br><br>A "mistake", to me, is something a human being makes.
<br><br>A "bug" is something that goes wrong in the execution of a computer<br>program due to it having been programmed wrongly.<br><br>I'll use "error" in writing for either "bug" or "mistake" if I feel that
<br>a certain amount of formality or neutrality is in order. But that's my<br>perception of my clients' preference, rather than my own preference.<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br><br>----------<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: </span><span id="_user_arthurobin2002@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Arthur Jones <<a href="mailto:arthurobin2002@yahoo.com">arthurobin2002@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2007.04.19 (03) [E]</span><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Hi Lowlanders,</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Pertaining
to Heather's enlightening and lighthearted message below (and I would
that more teachers were of her school!), the Brits among us may recall
the anecdote in which the wife of an Oxford English professor returns
home ahead of schedule from her shopping trip, whereupon she discovers
her husband in bed with a graduate student.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">"Henry!", she shouts, "I'm surprised!"</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
"No", he calmly responds, "<u>I'm</u> surprised. You're astonished."</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Thuk golitha,</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
Arthur</font></div><strong><em></em></strong><span class="q"> <div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk </a>"</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2007.04.18 (02) [E] </span></div>
</span> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q"><div>( as a teacher : </div> <div>mistake = something a pupil can/should put right: </div> <div>an error = something I as the teacher have to work on to get right in a pupil
</div> <div>primly yours</div> <div>Heather<br><br>PS<br><br>>Language
learners regularly make "mistakes" before they understand the rules.
Should those not also qualify as "errors"? <</div> <div>If they consistently get it wrong = probably an error.</div> <div>If they get it wrong here but right there and different over there, then they're probably not focussed and are making mistakes.
</div> <div>The fewer mistakes, the more an error is in process of being corrected.</div> <div>Or.................?????</div></span><br>
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