Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:26:27 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > says...
> > >
> > > On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:04:44 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
> > > > In article
> > > > >,
> > > > says...
> > > > >
> > > > > On Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 9:01:36 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:37:43 -0400, wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > There are fast food joints in California called "Der
> > > > > > > Weinerschnitzel",,, the most awful dawgs on der planet.
> > > > > > > https://www.wienerschnitzel.com/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Wienerschnitzel, not Weinerschnitzel. Why is this so hard?
> > > > > > Nobody would write restuarant or barbeceu.
> > > > >
> > > > > Really? You don't think people would misspell words in their
> > > > > own language?
> > > >
> > > > I doubt a first-language German speaker would.
> > > >
> > > > Wein and wien are not homophones, they rhyme with mine and
> > > > mean.
> > >
> > > I know. And they mean, respectively, wine and Vienna.
> >
> > Not to some Americans, apparently.
>
> I'm sure millions of people all over the world misspell words in
> foreign languages that they do not speak. I get a chuckle every
> time I read the menu in a Chinese restaurant.
>
> >
> > > But after years on Usenet, can you doubt that there are
> > > Americans who could misspell "restaurant" or "barbecue"?
> >
> > No. Or those old favourites "ala" rfc, "quisine" and "bullion".
>
> I used to think that spelling should be easy for everybody. Each
> word has a pattern, and I can easily see if the pattern is incorrect.
>
> Thirty years with a very intelligent dyslexic has taught me to
> accept that it's sometimes not a person's fault if they cannot
> spell or if they make other mistakes with language.
>
> It doesn't keep me from taking the mickey out of someone on Usenet,
> though. That's pretty much always been the second or third purpose
> of Usenet.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

Have fun with me then. Dyslexics Untie! To this day, I have trouble
with restaraunt. <--- hope that is right. Gasp though, probably not.