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Johnson Family wrote:
snipped P.S. I apologise for the tone of this post - whilst I mean every word of it, I might have put it slightly more diplomatically were it not for half a bottle of good wine and an impulse reaction to your posts. Firstly, one of the good things about the Internet in general and Usenet in particular is that everyone is as anonymous as they wish to be. None of us would have known you suffer a disability if you hadn't told us. Secondly, it is part of the function of newsgroups to pull apart someone else's performance in any way shape or form; sometimes even to hurl insults. Do you engage in mutual mickytaking when with friends? It's exactly the same here, don't take it seriously. Either ignore it or respond in kind. Best of luck with your studies. |
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![]() "Piccadilly Pilot" wrote in message ... Johnson Family wrote: snipped P.S. I apologise for the tone of this post - whilst I mean every word of it, I might have put it slightly more diplomatically were it not for half a bottle of good wine and an impulse reaction to your posts. Firstly, one of the good things about the Internet in general and Usenet in particular is that everyone is as anonymous as they wish to be. None of us would have known you suffer a disability if you hadn't told us. Secondly, it is part of the function of newsgroups to pull apart someone else's performance in any way shape or form; sometimes even to hurl insults. Do you engage in mutual mickytaking when with friends? It's exactly the same here, don't take it seriously. Either ignore it or respond in kind. Best of luck with your studies. You're probably right - I'm a little more sensitive this evening than I should be. I'm sure I have engaged in such criticismof other people in the past. I do however feel that it is unfair to criticise all the student, the University of York and the UK education merely on the back of my post. Very few people on here (I assume) have gone through the system in recent years - far fewer with a disability - so very few know what it is "really" like. As for not knowing about my disability (I wouldn't say I "suffer" a disability!) - you are quite right - I just felt that I had to point it out since there was so much criticism of my spelling and presentation. Yours, Robert P.S. Changing the subject entirely - is anybody listening to Bob Harris? - I just had a dedication! |
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Acrosticus wrote:
Ah! But apparently he's at York, who turned down a mate of mine who'd also put Oxford on his UCAS form. When my mate rang up to ask the admissions tutor why he'd been rejected the reply was "I don't think anyone who's put Oxford on their form would feel happy at York" (he was later accepted by Magdalen, by the way). I find it hard to frame a more eloquent and anodyne equivalent to York's admissions tutor's "Look, this place is an academic sink, if you've got half a brain you wouldn't come near the place" look-alike statement (which is what it really is when you strip the sophistry away). It is therefore no surprise that spelling, grammar and syntax are probably optional at York, even in your final year. In the past ten years, I've known several Oxbridge applicants who received offers from both Oxford/Cambridge and York. I believe it's now the case that the admissions offices don't get to see the other choices on the UCAS form? Tom University of Cambridge (Didn't apply to York) |
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JRS: In article , dated Sat, 9
Oct 2004 13:00:06, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Johnson Family posted : Also, if anybody know's of a spell checker for html documents, please let me know, as I don't use fancy software to write it - only MS Notepad. You save the HTML document in Notepad, of course (BTW, there are better free plain-text editors). Then you can display the HTML document on your own computer with your browser, I suppose? So do that, select all the text in the browser display, copy'n'paste into an application that has a spelling-checker - MS Word would do, provided that you can see the spelling-error markings - you don't need to know more about the application than open new document, paste, scroll, quit. You do the corrections back in Notepad. Not as convenient as it might be, but probably better than nothing. Also, if you find that you make some consistent typing errors, a file- editing tool can be used for bulk correction. I have a batch file RESPELL.BAT containing mtr -w -c+ -i:respell.txt *.htm and RESPELL.TXT containing fot = for onr = one shouls = should toy = you thr = the foind = found anf = and ar = at so by issuing the command RESPELL my whole website root master is checked for those particular "words", and corrections offered. Offered, do if I did mean "toy" I'd just press N instead of Y. mtr.exe is MiniTrue, via below. -- © John Stockton, Surrey, UK. Turnpike v4.00 MIME. © Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links. I find MiniTrue useful for viewing/searching/altering files, at a DOS prompt; free, DOS/Win/UNIX, URL:http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/ Update hope? |
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-In message , Tom Cordiner
writes In the past ten years, I've known several Oxbridge applicants who received offers from both Oxford/Cambridge and York. I believe it's now the case that the admissions offices don't get to see the other choices on the UCAS form? Certainly that wasn't the case when I applied to uni a couple of years ago. At Imperial the interviewer did mention that she'd noticed I'd applied to Oxford and various other places, so obviously their admissions people were able to see my other choices. -- Spyke - Who is doing computer science so can get away with spelling errors :-) Address is valid, but messages are treated as junk. The opinions I express do not necessarily reflect those of the educational institution from which I post. |
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Troy Steadman wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 11 Oct 2004:
...York is 7th best Uni in the country accoring to the Times, and what a lovely place to live, The Blue Bell in Fossgate (where until recently they rang £3 into the till by pushing 5s 0d 12 times) is where I'd be studying *my* thesis if I was in York right now. My daughter went there to study, and has never left! And last time we went to visit her, a couple of weeks ago now, we went to the NRM, and we couldn't get my husband out of it! He stayed until closing time.... -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 26 September 2004 |
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