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2005-08-10 7:35 PM

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Could we please get spell check and grammar check on this site so I can stop being ridacul...ridical.....ridacull... dissed by all these educated #$@^&%$#@ at this site.
We need it real bad fo shizzle my triathlizzle bedizzle.
De Crackerilizzle


2005-08-10 8:12 PM
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i think the forum would crash from all that processing work...

but i actually heard that it may be a feature to another html editor that is beign evaluated for the forum.

2005-08-10 8:55 PM
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gullahcracker - 2005-08-10 7:35 PM

Could we please get spell check and grammar check on this site so I can stop being ridacul...ridical.....ridacull... dissed by all these educated #$@^&%$#@ at this site.
We need it real bad fo shizzle my triathlizzle bedizzle.
De Crackerilizzle


People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. I don't see how pointing out anyone's typos or errors in spelling moves along a discussion. It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.

One of the funny things I have noticed through the years online is that in many remarks commenting on someone elses bad grammar is a grammatical error of some kind.

Don't you just love that tag line someone here has: "Bad spellers of the world UNTIE"

Edited by Wookiee 2005-08-10 9:08 PM
2005-08-10 9:04 PM
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fo shizzle. My God I'm forgetting how to speak English.
2005-08-11 6:20 AM
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Spell checkers do not belong on web sites. Imagine every web site having to implement a spell checker. Ugh! Instead, every web browser should come with a spell checker. That way anything you type into the browser on any site can be checked.

The good news is that web browser integrated spell checkers are here:

For Firefox and Mozilla browsers use the SpellBound extension. It's free and works well.

If you just have to use Internet Exploder get ieSpell. It's free for personal use, but costs money if you use it for work.

So, the next time someone bitches about pour spelling, ask them to instead encourage people to use these extensions/plug-ins.

As far as grammar checking goes... I am not aware of any browser-specific software for this.

This message has been spell checked.
2005-08-11 7:18 AM
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Ron - 2005-08-10 9:12 PM

i think the forum would crash from all that processing work...

but i actually heard that it may be a feature to another html editor that is beign evaluated for the forum.

Bravo Ron! LOL!

I'm not correcting, I make tons of spelling errors. Just thought it was funny...



2005-08-11 7:25 AM
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I noticed the same thign but who's checing speling anywya.
2005-08-11 7:40 AM
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That is vary ture.

2005-08-11 8:16 AM
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Don't you just love that tag line someone here has: "Bad spellers of the world UNTIE"

I have seen this, and love it.  I am the world's second worst speller, but until I saw the "UNTIE" in this context I had not noticed the it was spelled wrong, I was just cruising along fat dumb & happy thinking it said UNITE.  Hmmmmm.....Power of suggestion??

2005-08-11 8:30 AM
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just becuz somwun cant spel gud doesent meen thay aint gud peepel.  Bad spellerz have fielings too.
2005-08-11 9:37 AM
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will race for beer - 2005-08-11 9:16 AM

Don't you just love that tag line someone here has: "Bad spellers of the world UNTIE"

I have seen this, and love it. I am the world's second worst speller, but until I saw the "UNTIE" in this context I had not noticed the it was spelled wrong, I was just cruising along fat dumb & happy thinking it said UNITE. Hmmmmm.....Power of suggestion??



Part of it is that the human brain is really good at recognizing patterns. So, even if a word is misspelled or missing a few letters, your brain will often be able to figure out what the word really is. I was trying to find some of the things I read on this, but I can't seem to find them right now.


2005-08-11 9:49 AM
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What's really funny is some of the words are misspelled so often on the internet, the misspellings are becoming acceptable. By far the most common error I see is writing "your" instead of "you're". Second place might be confusing "there", "their" and "they're". Simple typos don't bother me.

My brother-in-law sent me these two items...

"Ode to the Spell Checker"

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew





Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? Yaeh, who siad slpeling was ipmorantt.
2005-08-11 10:26 AM
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See my Signature..

2005-08-11 11:11 AM
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MTBonker - 2005-08-11 7:20 AM

Spell checkers do not belong on web sites. Imagine every web site having to implement a spell checker. Ugh! Instead, every web browser should come with a spell checker. That way anything you type into the browser on any site can be checked.

The good news is that web browser integrated spell checkers are here:

For Firefox and Mozilla browsers use the SpellBound extension. It's free and works well.

If you just have to use Internet Exploder get ieSpell. It's free for personal use, but costs money if you use it for work.

So, the next time someone bitches about pour spelling, ask them to instead encourage people to use these extensions/plug-ins.

As far as grammar checking goes... I am not aware of any browser-specific software for this.

This message has been spell checked.


Wow. What a great extension. Many thanks!

2005-08-11 11:17 AM
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TriComet: "Hey, Scott, do you know how to spell burrito?"

3558: "Yes.  C-H-I-P-O-T-L-E"

2005-08-11 11:31 AM
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Wookiee - 2005-08-10 9:55 PM

People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. [. . . ]It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.


You misspelled "sentence".

I'm SORRY, really I am, but this is kinda what I do for a living. I'm not a grammar nazi, I'm a grammar a$$hole: I'd rather be right than polite.



2005-08-11 11:40 AM
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stupidnickname - 2005-08-11 12:31 PM
Wookiee - 2005-08-10 9:55 PM People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. [. . . ]It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.
You misspelled "sentence". I'm SORRY, really I am, but this is kinda what I do for a living. I'm not a grammar nazi, I'm a grammar a$$hole: I'd rather be right than polite.

You misspelled "kind of"

2005-08-11 12:04 PM
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BWA-HAHAHAHAHA!

Man, you got me. Though I might argue that in using "kinda" I was choosing the vernacular, or idiomatic, tone, while Wookie was not intentionally choosing to use the word "scentence".

Whatever, you got me. I'm neither polite nor right.



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stupidnickname - 2005-08-11 12:31 PM
Wookiee - 2005-08-10 9:55 PM People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. [. . . ]It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.
You misspelled "sentence". I'm SORRY, really I am, but this is kinda what I do for a living. I'm not a grammar nazi, I'm a grammar a$$hole: I'd rather be right than polite.

You misspelled "kind of"

HA!

When I first started reporting in the small dinky town of St. Joseph, Mo., I wrote about five stories a day. When you write that many words a day you make mistakes. About twice a month I would get these yellow cards from a member of SPELL - Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature. The old English teachers would cut out parts of my newspaper stories and circle the grammatical error and then correct it in this old scratchy penmanship that told you the writer had to be at least 80. I hated those yellow postcards and I started writing short stories about little annoying old ladies with 30 cats at home with boxes of yellow cards waiting to pounce on the nearest atrocious speller or grammar violator. Ooooohhh. They were annoying. That said, it actually, physically, hurts me to see a poorly constructed sentence. Spelling I don't mind, but every yokel with a pen thinks he's a writer and it drives me batty to see all the horrible literature that passes for modern writing these days. John Grisham. Give me a break! What a hack. My grandmother writes better stories than him. I really think that reading a book by a modern writer is no different than watching television since neither require much logic or brain power. Give me a classic anyday. A Zora or Wright novel would blow most Oprah book selections out the water. Oprah, God how did she get to be the queen of summer reading lists? When a freaking talkshow host is telling you and your family what passes for great literature then you know the world is in trouble.

Ok, exit soapbox!

2005-08-11 1:27 PM
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MTBonker - 2005-08-11 3:20 AM

Spell checkers do not belong on web sites. Imagine every web site having to implement a spell checker. Ugh! Instead, every web browser should come with a spell checker. That way anything you type into the browser on any site can be checked.


You are so right. Here is the download for ieSpell

http://www.download.com/3000-2378_4-10208550.html

I can't wait for the new IE browser to come out. Finally they are implementing tabbed browsing!
2005-08-11 3:18 PM
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3558 - 2005-08-11 9:40 AM

stupidnickname - 2005-08-11 12:31 PM
Wookiee - 2005-08-10 9:55 PM People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. [. . . ]It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.
You misspelled "sentence". I'm SORRY, really I am, but this is kinda what I do for a living. I'm not a grammar nazi, I'm a grammar a$$hole: I'd rather be right than polite.

You misspelled "kind of"

HA!

When I first started reporting in the small dinky town of St. Joseph, Mo., I wrote about five stories a day. When you write that many words a day you make mistakes. About twice a month I would get these yellow cards from a member of SPELL - Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature. The old English teachers would cut out parts of my newspaper stories and circle the grammatical error and then correct it in this old scratchy penmanship that told you the writer had to be at least 80. I hated those yellow postcards and I started writing short stories about little annoying old ladies with 30 cats at home with boxes of yellow cards waiting to pounce on the nearest atrocious speller or grammar violator. Ooooohhh. They were annoying. That said, it actually, physically, hurts me to see a poorly constructed sentence. Spelling I don't mind, but every yokel with a pen thinks he's a writer and it drives me batty to see all the horrible literature that passes for modern writing these days. John Grisham. Give me a break! What a hack. My grandmother writes better stories than him. I really think that reading a book by a modern writer is no different than watching television since neither require much logic or brain power. Give me a classic anyday. A Zora or Wright novel would blow most Oprah book selections out the water. Oprah, God how did she get to be the queen of summer reading lists? When a freaking talkshow host is telling you and your family what passes for great literature then you know the world is in trouble.

Ok, exit soapbox!



Not everything on the best seller list today will be a classic, but the classics will mostly come from the best seller list. It isn't always the case - Moby Dick was a complete failure commercially. There has always been schlock and straight to paperback stuff or writing so popular that the lack of skill seems to go unnoticed (The Da Vinci Code comes to mind). At least people are reading. If they will read Grisham maybe, just maybe, they will pick up a Fitzgerald, Ondaatje or someone else with more to say.



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Wookiee - 2005-08-10 9:55 PM

People who comment on spelling and grammar in online forums are simply being impolite. [. . . ]It would be like stopping someone who mispronounced "erudite" in the middle of scentence just to point out that you are more erudite than they are.


You misspelled "sentence".

I'm SORRY, really I am, but this is kinda what I do for a living. I'm not a grammar nazi, I'm a grammar a$$hole: I'd rather be right than polite.



There you go then enough said.
2005-08-11 5:09 PM
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Fo shizzle my nizzle, I can't stop saying this . It's like being a burrito addict.
2005-08-12 6:32 AM
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ChuckyFinster - 2005-08-11 1:27 PM
I can't wait for the new IE browser to come out. Finally they are implementing tabbed browsing!


Why wait for the next version of IE? Download Firefox to get:
  • tabbed browsing
  • a huge selection of extensions and themes (if pretty buttons something you care about). Extensions I use are Adblock, SpellBound, and, yes, IEView to open stubborn pages in IE if needed.
  • pop-up blocking built into the browser. Is it built into IE also? I can't remember.
  • web search is built into the browser, so you don't have to go to Google or Yahoo or whatever before typing in your search. Search engines can be added to the built-in browser text box to search things like the dictionary, eBay, Amazon and others.


Oh, and Firefox guarantees that you'll shave 20% off your swim time if you use it.

-Bonker

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ChuckyFinster - 2005-08-11 1:27 PM

I can't wait for the new IE browser to come out. Finally they are implementing tabbed browsing!


Umm you are joking right? Firefox already has tabbed browsing and far less security concerns. More importantly MS is already experiencing problems with IE 7 and it hasn't even been released yet. You should check out the developers blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspxand this is from the people who think it is best browser in the world!

The funniest line in the posting is "I believe the Web Standards Project" becaused MS doesn't support the Web Standards Project at all and IE 7 won't pass the Web Standards test which Opera, Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape already pass.

I find it bizarre that given the opportunity to drive a Rolls Royce or a Hyundai at absolutely no cost to one's self people continue to choose the Hyundai.
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