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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Why Engineers spell so bad
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Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 00:44:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  1 00:44:40 1986
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	Hay, I cun spel beter thun al of ya!  seee?  Now lisun too me:

	We Engineers are renown for our inability to spell.  The problem isn't
that we don't know how to spell (we do), nor does it have to do with the
size of the Engineering vocabulary we need to know (is BIG).  It especially
has absolutely nothing to do with our writing ability (exception: Bill the 
Cat).

	No folks, the problem is that our brains simply run too fast.  That's
right, the queues going from our primary CPU to our Mechanical Control
Sub-processing Centers get completely overloaded, and, as a result, some 
of the data gets mixed up or chopped off.  We tell our hands to go write
something with a flick of our neurons and go on to other things without
bothering to check on their progress.  This is why you often see whole
phrases missing from unedited engineering papers.  Other examples include
the well documented Kernal Kernel problem.

	English Majors, on the other hand, do not have to be so abstract,
which allows their MCSC's to memorize widely used output strings and thus
keep up with the primary CPU.

	Typists (as a living. Read: 'Data Entry') are on the other side of
the spectrum alltogether.  They don't have to think at all, and can 
concentrate all their resources on the queuing aspect.  Thus, the better
typists (110 Wpm +) do not have to ask the speaker to pause when changing
paper on their type-writer.


	So, in conclusion, the most effective method for an Engineer to
curtail his spelling problems is with a lot of practice on his queuing
ability.  Simply sit down and write a program which scrolls arbitrary
words onto the screen, and see if you can type them in the same order they
appear.  The idea is to always set the speed the program outputs the words 
just a tad faster than your current copying ability.



			-Matt