Spelling

[sweetnpetite]

I think that if you like someones story, but wish to point out a spelling error so that they can correct it, you should send them an e-mail feedback, not do so on a public feedback.

I have a public feedback that points out an error I have since corrected, but since the feedback is still positive, I don't want to delete the feedback. Nor do I like the continued mention of something that has been corrected.

Oh well.

What do you think belongs and doesn't belong in public feedback?

 

[Goldie Munro]

Forget it - its a positive feedback (god those are good!) and spelling/grammar errors are well...just not worth the effort!

 

[Nemasis Enforcer]

I don't really care what is put in public comments on my stories,

I often get privet feedback that praises me to the heavens, lol

Not sure I deserve it but its flattering to know my stories are appreciated by some... altho I think that there is alot lot better authors out there

 

[CharleyH]

Oh I got a big PC about how someone liked my story but there were so many spelling errors as to be distracting. I use a spell check. I get editors to read. But this from an American, who thinks metre should be spelled meter, or flavour, flavor because everyone should spell the way you all do in U.S. - I believe all grammar and spelling comments are best left to private, more appreciated by author and reader alike, and saves either author or reader public embarrassment.

(never said I do the same in posts )

 

[cantdog]

I ignore spell checkers most of the time anyhow. They never know any dirty words, they complain about proper nouns, and they don't recognize regional variants.

No, spell checker! I don't really mean "cant" or "count." I meant "cunt!"

I coin a new word once in a while, too.

"Wifty" is a good example. My daughter rolled her eyes all the time at my old-timey slang, so I cobbled one up brand new. No one uses it with the exception of me and my daughter and a couple of friends, but at least it's not dated.

I never had anyone misinterpret what it connoted, either.

Spell checker detests it.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Originally posted by CharleyH
But this from an American, who thinks metre should be spelled meter, or flavour, flavor because everyone should spell the way you all do in U.S.

Twenty years, and the UK will be the 62nd state. Mark my words.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Spell checker detests it.

Spell chekers learn. They only signal those words once, and after you tell it that it's a valid word, that's it.

 

[cantdog]

You can teach your spell checker. You can have separate dictionaries for each story.

But you have to care.

I don't, because I'm going to ignore it anyhow, so I never use it.

 

[Guest]

You can teach your spell checker. You can have separate dictionaries for each story.

But you have to care.

I don't, because I'm going to ignore it anyhow, so I never use it.

Oh -

Feeling sorry for cant's sad little spell checker.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I usually spank my spell checker for being a bad bad boy.

After the inevitable coitus, I release one of my spelling-nifty but grammar-dead works unto an unsuspecting populace.

 

[Guest]

I usually spank my spell checker for being a bad bad boy.

After the inevitable coitus, I release one of my spelling-nifty but grammar-dead works unto an unsuspecting populace.

Go back to the spanking part. That sounds good.


What happens next?

 

[oggbashan]

Twenty years, and the UK will be the 62nd state. Mark my words.

No way. The US will come to its senses and repeal the Declaration of Independence so that you can have a Head of State that doesn't have to fight elections and stands aside from politics.

The Queen is our Head of State (and the Head of State of some other Commonwealth counties) and can remove our Prime Minister if necessary in exceptional circumstances.

Impeachment? 'Off with his head!' is quicker and the Prime Minister doesn't stay around to write books about how everyone got it wrong.

Og

 

[Lauren Hynde]

You can teach your spell checker. You can have separate dictionaries for each story.

But you have to care.

I don't, because I'm going to ignore it anyhow, so I never use it.

Isn't that a bit like dissing a drawing-compass because you're only interested in straight lines? A spell-checker is a tool; if you don't know/want to use it, it's hardly the tool's problem...

 

[Vincent E]

But this from an American, who thinks metre should be spelled meter, or flavour, flavor because everyone should spell the way you all do in U.S. - I believe all grammar and spelling comments are best left to private, more appreciated by author and reader alike, and saves either author or reader public embarrassment.

Shouldn't that be authour?

I'm a Yankee-doodle dandy...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Twenty years, and the UK will be the 62nd state. Mark my words.

First, I don't think anything of the sort will ever happen and, second, who will be states 51 through 61? Puerto Rico, maybe, but who else? Maybe some of the Canadian provinces.

 

[Liar]

First, I don't think anything of the sort will ever happen and, second, who will be states 51 through 61? Puerto Rico, maybe, but who else? Maybe some of the Canadian provinces.

You're forgetting the 2006 civil war, when California got split into ten different separatist states.

 

[minsue]

You're forgetting the 2006 civil war, when California got split into ten different separatist states.

 

[matriarch]

Twenty years, and the UK will be the 62nd state. Mark my words.

Smug, Joe.
Very smug.
Should that nightmare scenario ever occur, we will still speak and write English correctly.