spell check

1stMcGuiver · Posted: Fri 08/01/2003 1:45pm [Post #1]

just noticed, whooze, that you havent been spell checking lately ...........
but it cant be anyone else masquerading as you since the STUFF is there all right Wink

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Basementgeek · Supreme Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 12000 Points: 1188

The Word CANT you used

Are you saying that Whooze is : "an inclination from level/a tilted position/
an expression peculiar to a group." ?

Or did you mean the Can't " A contraction of the word can not" ?

I think minor spelling errors are ok, except when typing web sites/reg entries,etc.

Live with it

Cheers: Smile

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1stMcGuiver · Posted: Fri 08/08/2003 1:09pm [Post #3]

oops. and you did get me there.

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Basementgeek · Supreme Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 12000 Points: 1188

Guess most of us do not make a living as proof readers Laughing

My comment "Live with it" was not called for and for that I am sorry Crying or Very sad

Cheers

Gary

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1stMcGuiver · Posted: Tue 08/19/2003 1:03pm [Post #5]

hey that's ok, gary.

is there a way to spell check right on this page after i've typed something?

would any of the software on the computer itself be useful for this kind of thing?

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Canuck · Posted: Tue 08/19/2003 3:16pm [Post #6]

It would be nice to have some kind of spell checker, however there are so many tech terms and abreviations I think that the spell checking may well take longer than writing a message. Having said that, minor spellings don't bother me as much as not being able to decipher the message due to abreviated tech talk or just disjointed desciptions. I'm by no means a purist, but accurate and understandable communication does go a long way in getting the help one needs.

Glyn

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Basementgeek · Supreme Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 12000 Points: 1188

I think this link will help you out:

http://www.help2go.com/public/article27.html&mode=&orde r=0&thold=0

Or you can type your comments in MS word, edit spelling and then cut and paste to the post.

Cheers Smile

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Canuck · Posted: Thu 08/21/2003 11:56am [Post #8]

Thanks for the tip Basementgeek, now if we could only convince others to use it Very Happy

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PartieHonteuse · Posted: Wed 10/22/2003 8:57pm [Post #9]

http://www.iespell.com It's a right click menu object in Internet Explorer that enables spell checking for Forms and Text Boxes, free for non commercial use.

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whoozhe · Posted: Thu 10/23/2003 12:10am [Post #10]

I have recently discovered that without a number of typos I could be considered an outcast in the Net world.
It is either that or I just can't find a keyboard that spells.
Here is something to ponder. The brain does not need correct spelling to recognize a word. It reads the 1st and last letter of a word and fills in the rest.

Suhold you dscivoer you can atcluay raed tihs tehn who nesed spleilng.

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Basementgeek · Supreme Guru Joined: 01 Jan 2003 Posts: 12000 Points: 1188

based upon your (and mine) spelling think how big dickshonaryes wood bee Laughing

Cheers Gary

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galena1 · Posted: Fri 10/31/2003 9:47am [Post #12]

I have a spelling checker
It came with my P.C.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistaycs i CANT sea
i've run this poem threw it,
i'm sure your pleazed too no,
Its letter purfect in its weigh
my chequer tolled me sew.
(Wiv apologees 2 Janit Myner)

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whoozhe · Posted: Sat 11/01/2003 11:53pm [Post #13]

whoozhe's history lesson on spelling. Before the printing press there was no such thing as spelling. Shakspeare actully spelt his name 15 different ways.
With the advent of the printing press some conformity was sought by printers so spelling came into being. The was probably the first real standard for anything.
Funny thing about spelling is the USA changed many of the accepted spelling standards used when they introduced more phonetic spelling. eg Take the word colour. The USA spell it color. The actual proper pronuciation is Ku-ler not ku-lor.

Oh there goes the lesson bell so you can all go to the next lesson which is "What would the roads be like if Microsoft built cars".

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EMP · Member Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 57 Points: 2

There has been a lot of interest in spelling to relation of the internet. Recently it has been classified as a medical addiction " Text Messaging ".

This is not so funny as it sounds but renewed interest has been underway for the same in message programms for the internet eg.. bbl =be back later, lol = Laugh out loud and so on.

These are not mistakes only a new way of typeing and soon for the formation of abbreviated internet related terms

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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whoozhe · Posted: Sun 11/09/2003 9:38pm [Post #15]

Medical Condition. Makes you have so much faith in the medical proefession especially when they and the science world have been using abbreviations for centuries
Language evolves.

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