Spell checking automated?

[BigGunnz]

Help!

I have submitted edits to a story I already have published. It got rejected. The form-letter says "have you checked everything is spelled correctly?"

I have. Aside from the odd "ohhhhh" or "gonna" in some dialogue, it's clean. So I'm wondering if a real person found a typo or am I shooting at an invisible spell checker that won't tell me what is misspelled?

Any insights on this would be helpful.

 

[NotWise]

Help!

I have submitted edits to a story I already have published. It got rejected. The form-letter says "have you checked everything is spelled correctly?"

I have. Aside from the odd "ohhhhh" or "gonna" in some dialogue, it's clean. So I'm wondering if a real person found a typo or am I shooting at an invisible spell checker that won't tell me what is misspelled?

Any insights on this would be helpful.

There are miss-spellings that your spell checker won't find, but which might stand out to a human reader. For instance, the difference between their, there, and they're; none are misspelled but they don't all work in the same context.

It might help if you click over to the editor's forum and ask for someone to read your story.

 

[Weird Harold]

Help!

I have submitted edits to a story I already have published. It got rejected. The form-letter says "have you checked everything is spelled correctly?"

I have. Aside from the odd "ohhhhh" or "gonna" in some dialogue, it's clean. So I'm wondering if a real person found a typo or am I shooting at an invisible spell checker that won't tell me what is misspelled?

Any insights on this would be helpful.

Check to see that your story wasn't corrupted when you submitted it. Missing paragraph breaks or spaces will cause words to combine into smell chucker rejects.

 

[sr71plt]

Although it's a sore point here, you're from Ontario. The Web site's idea of spelling (and its computer spellcheck program) might be at variance with your quite correct spelling--for Canada, but not necessarily for the American system, which is what this Web site is based on. You might set your spellchecker on U.S. system and see if anything pops out.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

The official LIT spell check changes my words all the time. I typed NAVY SEAL and it became BABY SEAL a moment later.

 

[uksnowy]

There are so many daft things going in behind the scenes in this site.

 

[Hypoxia]

There are so many daft things going in behind the scenes in this site.

And??

 

[Handley_Page]

Help!

I have submitted edits to a story I already have published. It got rejected. The form-letter says "have you checked everything is spelled correctly?"

I have. Aside from the odd "ohhhhh" or "gonna" in some dialogue, it's clean. So I'm wondering if a real person found a typo or am I shooting at an invisible spell checker that won't tell me what is misspelled?

Any insights on this would be helpful.

A common error is "your" when it should be "You're" and so on.
A spell-checker will miss it/them.

 

[sr71plt]

The official LIT spell check changes my words all the time. I typed NAVY SEAL and it became BABY SEAL a moment later.

Lit's spell check changes? That's off the wall. I don't think Lit spellchecks the entries. That came from your own spellcheck program--and, yes, my spellcheck does weird things to my text too. That's why I consider it only one aspect of "check."

 

[BigGunnz]

The official LIT spell check changes my words all the time. I typed NAVY SEAL and it became BABY SEAL a moment later.

Does Lit have its own spell checker I can run my work through?

 

[sr71plt]

Does Lit have its own spell checker I can run my work through?

I don't think so.

 

[Handley_Page]

Does Lit have its own spell checker I can run my work through?

There's no point; it still won't tell the difference between Your, You're, or Yore
and similar problems.