Any "not yet sent it off" Oz visa applicants

On Tue, 09 May 2006 22:25:06 +0000, IanJakeCharlieDaddy

No idea offhand, but from a technical point of view some blue ballpoint ink simply doesn't copy well on Photostat machines even the first time. If make a copy of a copy, sometimes almost unreadable.

This can annoy clerks and officials who may have had a bad day, which you don't want to do.

Example: buttume you are a high school teacher who has to read 100 essays or term papers. One is typed in nice readable black ink in, say, 12 point type with a freshly inked ribbon. Next is written with a dim ribbon, almost out of ink. Hard to read. Maybe small type too.

Handwritten? Easy to read printing or handwriting in black ballpoint? Light blue ballpoint? Scrawled in almost unreadable script with pencil.

buttume all essays have equal literary merit. Guess which one gets the best mark?

Suggestion: When filling out any official form, anywhere, anytime, use broad black ballpoint, or at least 2 or 3 mm black felt tip marker.

If handwriting not the best, print it carefully.

If don't know how to spell a word, use a dictionary, as some people are pretty fussy about this, especially us older folk, and even on Usenet posts.

If I start to read a post and the first sentence says "I relly wunt to cum to Australlia" you probably won't get an answer from me. Others may be more tolerant.

However, if you do something like this on an official form, it could easily be rejected without even being fully read.

Unfair? Possibly. In the next paragraph you might explain that you are a "rocket scientist" or have perfected a process to turn kangaroo poo into fuel.

However, I, and many others, simply won't read that far.

As we were raised in an era when people who had anything significant to say could at least spell. If they couldn't, they could at manage to use a dictionary.

Sorry about this, but there are a lot of us around!

Cheers,