Alright, I'm back and I'm pissed! Why is it that 80% of people on message boards CAN'T SPELL "LOSE" or "LOSING"? It is NOT "LOOSE" nor "LOOSING"! Go back to second grade and get it right you LOOSERZ!
THINK !! I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons I will do it automatically. I am the servant of all great men. And, alas, of all failures as well. Those who are great, I have made great. I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine. Plus, the intelligence of man. You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin; it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will put the world at your feet. Be easy with me, and I will destroy you. Who am I? I am a *HABIT* !!! Good or bad it will follow you, if you make a habit of shortcuts it will come out in everything Take Care, Joe Baker
Start with loose, lose an o, and what do you get? Lose! http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/looselose.html
Forest Gump couldn't spell either, but he was ping pong champion, war hero, football star, shrimp boat captian, and successfull business man. Just because you lack one skill, as basic as it may seem, it does not make you a complete idiot. And spelling has nothing to do with trading. If they didn't know how to add or multiply numbers, then its a different story.
http://web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html It is a Left Vs Right issue. Who is right? (Right and Right how the hell do you tell them apart? There is some crazy stuff in this language.)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'd rather be intelligent. I can always make the money back again. Dumb people can make money, but rich people cannot become intelligent. I love this post. The bad grammar example that makes me crazy is "if" versus "whether," as in: "Making the trade depends on if XYZ crosses the 50-day" versus "Making the trade depends on whether XYZ crosses the 50-day." I find this mistake even in newspapers. Why are spelling and grammar important? Bad grammar is a frequent problem in my job. For example, I recently received a technical plan for execution of a project from a client. It was unintelligible. The client, who has a PhD in mathematics and is very bright but a non-native speaker of English, was unable to explain in his document how to complete the project. However, he was fairly articulate on the phone, so I was able to understand what he wanted us to do. However, after several attempts on my part to help him revise the document, it was no better. He could explain the procedures, but simply could not write them down in an understandable way. I then had to present his document to a committee, whose understandable response was something like, "What the hell does this say?" Upon explaining verbally to the committee what the client had conveyed to me on the phone, their response, again predictable, was, "Then tell him to write that in the document." Sigh. Lack of expository skills is costing my client's company (who is paying both the aforementioned committee and me) both time and money. I could of course, offer to fix the document myself (for a fee) but my impression is that this maneuver would be insulting to my client, and clients are precious in these economic times. So we'll muddle along. The most common reason that we do not grant interviews to otherwise qualified applicants at our company is because there is a spelling or grammatical error in their CV or cover letter. We use this screening process partly because we don't want employees who send illiterate e-mails to clients. Poor writing skills place us in a bad light. But there is also a belief within our organization that a sloppy CV indicates a sloppy worker. Since nearly everyone in our specialized mathematical field is foreign-born, we eliminate about 60-70% of CVs immediately in this way. Having dealt with many of these very smart people as clients, it's clear to me that they could improve their English skills; doing so would be less difficult than many other things they have already successfully accomplished. It's a mystery to me why people don't see that despite their technical expertise, these simple problems hold them back.
I nearly came unglued when Apple came out with this slogan: Think Different It's galling to me when one of the most lauded companies in the world glorifies ignorance.