Spelling and typos !

[TirelessTongue]

Is there a way to run a spell checker everytime you post? I'm just curious.

Don't you just hate it when you get into a debate and the person you are debating against starts pointing out your typos and gramatical errors?

I've made a few simple typos and normally I go back and edit the errors whenever I notice them. Nearly everyone has made simple typos from what I've seen and I still understand what they are saying. People type fast and multitask and don't really care too much if they make one or two typos.

When people start pointing out gramtical errors during a deabate, it tells me that they are stumped and don't have much else to say. Also, it flat out tells me that they are LOSING the debate !

 

[Fleatopia]

The only way I know of is to copy your post and paste it into a word processing window and run that program's spellcheck.

Remember, spellcheck will miss usage errors/malapropisms.

 

[Volz]

Is there a way to run a spell checker everytime you post? I'm just curious.

Don't you just hate it when you get into a debate and the person you are debating against starts pointing out your typos and gramatical errors?

I've made a few simple typos and normally I go back and edit the errors whenever I notice them. Nearly everyone has made simple typos from what I've seen and I still understand what they are saying. People type fast and multitask and don't really care too much if they make one or two typos.

When people start pointing out gramtical errors during a deabate, it tells me that they are stumped and don't have much else to say. Also, it flat out tells me that they are LOSING the debate !

Check out IESpell, it's a spell checker add-on for Internet Explorer. Very handy.

 

[Travelintheways]

Most mis-spellings/typos don't bother me (I don't think I even got 'mis-spellings' right), but your vs. you're drives me absolutely nuts, as do inappropriately placed apostrophes. I understand the its/it's thing, though, and am minimally bothered by it. Okay, I contributed nothing to that discussion, sorry

Just remember, kids! :"Your" is possessive! "You're" is a contradiction of "you are"! Apostrophes are used in possessive forms (except in cases like yours, its, his, and a few others) and contradictions but NOT for plurals!

 

[Lynxie]

Just remember, kids! :"Your" is possessive! "You're" is a contradiction of "you are"! Apostrophes are used in possessive forms (except in cases like yours, its, his, and a few others) and contradictions but NOT for plurals!

Amen.

 

[Ezzy]

Is there a way to run a spell checker everytime you post? I'm just curious.

Don't you just hate it when you get into a debate and the person you are debating against starts pointing out your typos and gramatical errors?

I've made a few simple typos and normally I go back and edit the errors whenever I notice them. Nearly everyone has made simple typos from what I've seen and I still understand what they are saying. People type fast and multitask and don't really care too much if they make one or two typos.

When people start pointing out gramtical errors during a deabate, it tells me that they are stumped and don't have much else to say. Also, it flat out tells me that they are LOSING the debate !

Is there a way to run a spell checker every time you post? I'm just curious.

Don't you just hate it when you get into a debate and the person you are debating against starts pointing out your typos and grammatical errors?

I've made a few simple typos and normally I go back and edit the errors whenever I notice them. Nearly everyone has made simple typos from what I've seen and I still understand what they are saying. People type fast and multitask and don't really care too much if they make one or two typos.

When people start pointing out grammatical errors during a debate, it tells me that they are stumped and don't have much else to say. Also, it flat out tells me that they are LOSING the debate!

I really hate it when that happens! But honestly some folks have to use a spell check, I do for I have “low level dyslexia”. I can function at the level I do, only because I can use the corrections from the spell check to tune any posts, and I have learned from thousands of past mistakes, that others caught after I had missed them.

For the thirty seconds it takes to cut and paste, run the check, then re-cut and paste, I get really bugged by those posters who either can’t be bothered to use any structure or grammar in their posts, and those who run to half a page or more in a single paragraph.
For the “low level dyslexic” this type of post is the hardest to attempt to read, and if I am not that interested by the first three or four sentences, I will stop reading that post and move on to the next post that comments about the one I choose not to read.

If I have been hooked by a persuasive argument I may cut and paste into “Word”, as it is always open an my desktop, (I cant function without a word processor program running to check everything for errors), then break it down into bite sized chunks…After all you can’t swallow an elephant whole, but if you chew it bite by bite it is only a question of time before you look down at an empty plate!

 

[TirelessTongue]

I have read some posts on other forums where the spelling was absolutely horrible. It was as if the guy/girl tried typing while half asleep. There is no excuse for posts like that. However when someone had a typo or two, people who correct the posters spelling are just whoring another post. I can easily look past a few spelling mistakes while reading and understanding the post perfectly well. I see typos all the time around here, and even in subject titles.

Whats much worse than spelling and other grammar errors is when some people speak street or thug. Luckily lit doesn't have people on this board that do..... correct me if I'm wrong?

 

[Fleatopia]

I haven't seen it, but I'm notoriously new. I have a really bad habit of shrotenin' my ings to -in' though. That's supposed to imply southern though, not gangstah.

 

[Lust Engine]

I don't let typos bother me one bit unless it's in a piece of business correspondence. I consider these forums to be much much more of a casual setting so it's not even an issue with me.

I almost think of it as if someone stuttered while talking so fast. That one little stutter or stammer is more than forgivable.

 

[curiousjen]

I don't let typos bother me one bit unless it's in a piece of business correspondence. I consider these forums to be much much more of a casual setting so it's not even an issue with me.

I almost think of it as if someone stuttered while talking so fast. That one little stutter or stammer is more than forgivable.

Amen. I am certainly not a spelling Nazi, but what does wind me up is text speak. The odd b4 or m8 is just about excusable but whole paragraphs written in text speak drive me mad and totally invalidate what the person is saying. Haven't actually seen that much of that here, but on other forums it can get annoying.

 

[Lust Engine]

Amen. I am certainly not a spelling Nazi, but what does wind me up is text speak. The odd b4 or m8 is just about excusable but whole paragraphs written in text speak drive me mad and totally invalidate what the person is saying. Haven't actually seen that much of that here, but on other forums it can get annoying.

I know typing things like B4, GTG, IMHO are almost a new language unto themselves but unless a good chunk of the writer's audience gets it, it's lost. It's shorthand and not everyone understands it!

I'm hoping that as a society we haven't gotten to the point of being rushed so much we have to abbreviate simple things like that.

Leave the IM text on the cell phone and chat with real sentences and try to be as correct with grammar & spelling as possible.

 

[Eilan]

Typos don't bother me all that much. Unless, of course, they're MY typos! I know how easy it is to transpose letters (like "form" for "from"); it happens to the best of us. I'm notoriously bad at proofreading my own work because I tend to read what I intended to say and not what I actually wrote. I'm a little less forgiving when it comes to spelling and grammar, but that's because at one time I was paid to be that way.

About a year ago, my husband got a memo from one of his superiors at work warning the people in their division to reduce the number of spelling and "grammatick" errors in their reports and memos.

 

[crazybbwgirl]

I'm a secretary - I can't help but notice spelling errors - but I make plenty of them here. Typing too fast, not paying attention - whatever. I once had a lovely woman chase me around for about 3 pages in a political thread cuz I spelled Dick Cheney's name wrong - forgot the second e in the heat of the moment or something. Come on - get over it already! I agree with TT - she didn't have anything else useful to ad to the debate.

But along with you're and your; there, they're and their drive me nuts. ggrrrrrrr

 

[SweetErika]

I was wondering the same thing, TT, and for Firefox I found SpellBound is easy to set up and use. You simply highlight the text in the field you want to check, and click the icon at the top of the browser window. The spell checker window pops up, and it takes all of 5 seconds or so.

I don't usually have a problem with the mistakes of others, unless the writing is so riddled with errors it's unintelligible. Not following simple rules like, "drop the e and add ing" and confusing homonyms distract me sometimes and I often wonder how native English speakers make it through school without learning these things.

 

[krazeekat]

Just remember, kids! :"Your" is possessive! "You're" is a contradiction of "you are"! Apostrophes are used in possessive forms (except in cases like yours, its, his, and a few others) and contradictions but NOT for plurals!

Ditto!

A smattering of typos is forgiveable, I don't let it bother me much. Some people could be dyslexic.

 

[TirelessTongue]

One of the most common words that is spelled wrong is "Ridiculous". I see it spelled Rediculous quite often.

Most of my typos come from trying to type too fast. I don't look at the keyboard, and I can't since it is pretty much pitch black inside of my room.

If there was a spell checker to use, I would use it. But the cut, paste, word processor spell check thing seems like such a hassle. This is a porn board and people who critisize others spelling for one or two measly typos probably shouldn't be here !

 

[Bridget69]

I don't let typos bother me one bit unless it's in a piece of business correspondence. I consider these forums to be much much more of a casual setting so it's not even an issue with me.

My friend really gets annoyed with me about that. Whenever we talk on messenger, I'm always pointing out his spelling mistakes and he gets pissed. LOL! He says he only really cares about spelling correctly when he's at work , and doesn't really care the rest of the time.

 

[Eilan]

I often wonder how native English speakers make it through school without learning these things.

I've wondered this, too. Before I became a stay-at-home mom, I taught freshman composition and developmental (the politically correct term for remedial) reading, writing, and math classes at a small college. One year, I think it was 1999, 95% of the incoming freshmen had to take at least one developmental reading/writing course, and that total included class valedictorians and salutatorians!

I've had experience with ESL students and students with learning disabilities, so I'm sympathetic to their plight. But I'm baffled by the others.

 

[tsk3us]

Typos from others don't tend to bother me unless, like previously stated by others, they're my own.

I fully understand that not all people are typists, in one form or another, or may even have difficulties with spelling. I know many a person that just doesn't seem to be able to grasp the entire concept of spelling.

Typos vs. spelling are pretty easy to differentiate for me. I too, type for a living. At 90+ wpm, a lot of them are simple transpositions or invariably leaving a 'r' off of your (and spell check won't catch that)!

The only person I point spelling errors out to online is my son. Being a teenager, one of the easier ways to talk to him is via IM while he's upstairs and I down. Amazing how much less likely he is to backtalk when he has to type it. LOL

Mind you, I wouldn't at all be a little OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) in anything I do.

 

[bytor2112]

hu fukkin kares!!!

 

[Quoll]

Word Web This one is a fairly versatile little program, works with just about any text, can be set to most versions of english and will show comparisons of each type. will replace incorrect words and inlcudes online lookup.