Subject: "Ode to the Spell Checker!" on our P.C.

[Dragonette]

Do dum diddle dumb
I have a Spell Checker too!


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.

 

[Guest]

My scent e meant s exactly.

However, I do have some sympathy for those who get upset by the quality of some of the stories (not yours I hasten to add). If the orthography and grammar are bad enough to stop the flow for the reader, that's annoying.

On the third hand, when English is clearly not (or intended not to be) the narrator's first choice language it can add an element of the picturesque to the story.

BTW (which means sales tax in Flemish) since you live in Australia, shouldn't all the letters on my screen be upside down?

 

[Dragonette]

Hmmph, aye, way down under

My scent e meant s exactly.

However, I do have some sympathy for those who get upset by the quality of some of the stories (not yours I hasten to add). If the orthography and grammar are bad enough to stop the flow for the reader, that's annoying.

On the third hand, when English is clearly not (or intended not to be) the narrator's first choice language it can add an element of the picturesque to the story.

BTW (which means sales tax in Flemish) since you live in Australia, shouldn't all the letters on my screen be upside down?

Agreed! (not mine?) Err the flow!
Hmmmm, three hands, most intriquing indeed!
Mayhap you are a bit under, over, 'cos I am in ahead, infront here!
You are behind me, not under or over!
Plus, I am actually British nationality, so go figure!
You type it upside down or down upside!


LOL, I do like to make cents!

Does that make change? (out of a pound, two pennies worth?)

 

[Dragonette]

Doh, lost for words

Up is down and down is up
Front is back when back to front
Under up, a mirror cup
An image, sadly flat and blunt