Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> >
> > "And so you have thirteen tens,
> > And you take away seven,
> > And that leaves five...
> >
> > "Well, six actually.
> > But ... the idea is the important thing."
> >
>
> I'm a grader in Physics myself, so I know what it is. If the method is
> right,
> we're not gonna blame the student for making a mistake in the final
> calculation, giving a result slightly off (unless it was easy to
> recognise the
> mistake, as those tens of people who don't mind objects to fly at 10
> times the
> speed of light ;))) ). But in my experience, those cases are *rare*. In
> 95% of
> the cases, a bad result comes from a bad method. So this idea that the
> method
> is more important than the result is true, but it really applies to only
> very
> few cases.
They are? I make them only too often ...

                                                     Andreas