Are spell checkers needed?

[snooper]

Bivelee it or not, rcesrhaeers at Cmabrigde (Eglnnad) hvae dirvoseced taht the oredr of ltteers in a wrod deson't rlaley matter. The olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. Eevn if the rset are tolatly julebmd up you can sitll raed it. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn barin deos not raed ecah lteter invuddilialy, but inesatd renisgoecs the wrod as a wlohe.

So terhe you hvae it. You mhigt hvae thgohut taht yuor biran wdulon't be wroikng perplory atfer all the Chsimrats and New Yaer celinratobes, and tehn all tshee ticrks and isollunis smeeed to sohw taht yuor biarn is eslaiy feolod, but tihs autalcly manes taht yoru biran is wkonrig pfretecly nolralmy.

 

[kbate]

Next - to submit a story to Lit written entirely in this format - put it in essays and let us see what happens.

I might try my Valentines day contest entry in this style.

 

[CopyCarver]

The rcesrhaeers at Cmabrigde are correct. The I'm-too-drunk-to-control-my-fingers spellings are annoying in large quantities, but they're completely intelligible, without additional time or effort.

A rsoe by any other nmae, after all...

 

[tanyachrs]

without additional time or effort.

Not sure about that part. I'll bet we read faster without errors.

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Actually this theory has not been officially proven. It was an incomplete thesis by a cambridge PhD student a few decades ago i beleive. It leaked and caused a stir. I can't recall the guy's name but im sure if you google for it you might find it.

It is interesting though isnt it...i don't know why the thesis remained incomplete.

 

[Weird Harold]

It is interesting though isnt it...i don't know why the thesis remained incomplete.

It remains incomplete because spelling does matter and for some of us -- those who didn't learn to read phonetically -- reading something like the original post causes headaches.

 

[Never]

I don't believe that learning to read phonetically would increase one's ability to read the original post. If anything, the 'look-say' method would be more likely to help in that regard.

Different people just process language differently. I found reading the original post easy, but if you just gave me the letters of a word Scrabble style, I'd be hard pressed to create the word.

 

[quutoo]

Bivelee it or not, rcesrhaeers at Cmabrigde (Eglnnad) hvae dirvoseced taht the oredr of ltteers in a wrod deson't rlaley matter. The olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. Eevn if the rset are tolatly julebmd up you can sitll raed it. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn barin deos not raed ecah lteter invuddilialy, but inesatd renisgoecs the wrod as a wlohe.

So terhe you hvae it. You mhigt hvae thgohut taht yuor biran wdulon't be wroikng perplory atfer all the Chsimrats and New Yaer celinratobes, and tehn all tshee ticrks and isollunis smeeed to sohw taht yuor biarn is eslaiy feolod, but tihs autalcly manes taht yoru biran is wkonrig pfretecly nolralmy.

Snoopy ...you make a valid point. Read almost any story and you will find some of the above. Writing a sex story, one intended to give a reader the old wood is hard to do, especially when you get to a good part and the fingers fairly fly..one handed of course.

Many spell checkers miss a lot of these and the word , cunt or fuck is verbotten , according to most spell checkers. When I read a story and I see: words like my cocl or pusso of some such missed by spell checkers I read on with out loosing any wood. Or is that would?

The spelling of the english language has changed so much over the years..look at Chaucier, or better yet look at Homer Simsons 'doh'. Only
the most anal of people cannot read past some common mistake. Their wood collapses with a single error. They might be better if the would have more wood. Hey just thought of John donne..or is that John Dunne..Oh well I was glad to see that you takled the issue. It is often said that anal retentives play with shitte while the rest of us commoners play with words. Cheers or how about Yo dude...or yall or something that gives spell checkers and those among us , you know who, fits..

By the bye.What has happened to the loving wives section. There were no new loving wives stories at all today. Guess they get tired of rejection after rejection for a simple mistake...

 

[fieryjen]

First of all... apologies for being anal, but it is verboten with one t.

I believe that while we'll still need spellchecker, this may be why so many errors go undetected when you're just doing a quick read through of a story - if your brain can figure out the word despite it being scrambled, and you know what it's supposed to be because of context, you may simply not notice the errors.