Good idea. You scared me away! Especially when Shelley compared it to Forest Gump. I provided a couple of omitted pages to her and found it *very* difficult to read. I don't like reading dialect, though I know it's essential to establishing characters. I tend to translate it in my mind to ordinary English. I don't even like all the "yer" instead of "your" in Bertrice Small's books set in the early and mid 17th century. Thanks for the warning (grin). Cindy - The Pardees <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cindy, > > I put that in the reviewing this book edit box, but > I thought I'd warn any > potential validaters of what was in store. > Jim > > > At 10:54 PM 1/17/05, you wrote: > > >Jim, > > > >You and/or the validator can always point out that > the > >books contains dialect or made-up words and > therefore > >anyh automatic speller rating is false -- the book > >deserves the excellent rating it gets. > > > >Cindy > > > >-- The Pardees <fpardee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Most industrious list members, > > > If I may, I will provide a brief diversion from > the > > > fascinating subject of > > > stripping or not stripping. > > > > > > I have just received the loan of five books > from my > > > teen aged grandson, > > > who until now, I believed to be reasonablely > > > intelligent. However, he has > > > become hooked on the Redwall series of fantasy > > > books , by Brian Jacques. > > > Apparently these books have become a rage with > teen > > > agers and have received > > > good words from the New York > > > Times and The School Library Journal, among > others. > > > > > > > > > These books are set in a fantasy world of > talking > > > animals, who possess the > > > finer characteristics of humans, such as, > battling > > > with spears, hanging > > > from cliffs, swimming raging rivers and stealing > > > tapestries. > > > > > > My only problem with submitting them is that Mr. > > > Jacques uses a tremendous > > > number of invented words, In addition the > animals > > > talk in dialect. This > > > results in a rank spelling rating of 96.33 and a > > > count of 1680 misspelled > > > words. I have stripped the headers , counted the > > > pages and removed junk > > > characters, but I am not going through that list > of > > > misspelled words. I > > > doubt if I could even tell Mr. Jacques's > invented > > > words from a scanno. > > > > > > I will be submitting the first or possibly the > last > > > tonight. The name of > > > the book is Marlfox and is in rtf. > > > I am going to give it a rating of excellent > because > > > I think it is. If > > > anyone is crazy enough to validate it, they can > > > change the rating or reject > > > it. > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >All your favorites on one personal page - Try My > Yahoo! > >http://my.yahoo.com > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com