slave-driver
Sacramento Nothern Lives
2. 1. That's 21 then.
Bill
Bill
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titaniclover
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Hmm...
Well it is a point. I am a neat freak and a spell freak. I used to pass all my spelling tests in Elementary school with 100's.
Now they discontinue spelling in High School even Middle School. By the end of Middle School I forgot how to spell "because"!! Not good.
This is why I use my installed document writer, Microsoft Word for example. That what I'm writing this message in right now.:hehe:
Now even your installed components in your computer can help you. Without downloading anything!! Very nice huh?
Just a little funny, look at my last name. It's German. Try saying it. LOL!!!:hehe: Now try spelling it, without looking at it. Now you know how my teachers feel in school.
Happy Holidays!!
Cheers,
Adam Wiethuechter
EDIT: Ok not all thing go well. Even there is still human error by missing things in the document writer!! Go figure I spelled "because" wrong again, and component!
Well it is a point. I am a neat freak and a spell freak. I used to pass all my spelling tests in Elementary school with 100's.
Now they discontinue spelling in High School even Middle School. By the end of Middle School I forgot how to spell "because"!! Not good.
This is why I use my installed document writer, Microsoft Word for example. That what I'm writing this message in right now.:hehe:
Now even your installed components in your computer can help you. Without downloading anything!! Very nice huh?
Just a little funny, look at my last name. It's German. Try saying it. LOL!!!:hehe: Now try spelling it, without looking at it. Now you know how my teachers feel in school.
Happy Holidays!!
Cheers,
Adam Wiethuechter
EDIT: Ok not all thing go well. Even there is still human error by missing things in the document writer!! Go figure I spelled "because" wrong again, and component!
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Ah my first assignment.:hehe:
Translation - Sorry, I can't spell either. I don't have any education....just ask me.
my two cents
I love this thread. I am constantly amazed by the number of emails I receive in a business context that are grammatically incorrect, and violate basic spelling rules.
How often have you seen someone write, "loose" when they really mean, "lose"? As in, "If I read any more of this, I think I will loose my mind".
Spelling checkers won't help you here. Only brain cells.
Merry Christmas and thanks to Euphod,
Fred
I love this thread. I am constantly amazed by the number of emails I receive in a business context that are grammatically incorrect, and violate basic spelling rules.
How often have you seen someone write, "loose" when they really mean, "lose"? As in, "If I read any more of this, I think I will loose my mind".
Spelling checkers won't help you here. Only brain cells.
Merry Christmas and thanks to Euphod,
Fred
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No, it's not just you.:hehe:
I sense a disturbance in the Moderation Force......
Does anyone have any links to other spell checkers for other browsers? Or is IE the only one that doesn't have one out of the box?
Ed
What amazes me is to look at the posts written by these violators of the English language, and then to compare them to posts by those members of the forum who are from other parts of the world. What valid excuse is there for someone who's been speaking, reading and writing English from birth to have a poorer grasp of the language than someone who's learnt it at school or taught it to themselves?
I can speak for myself here as English is my second language (I am a French national) and I grit my teeth every time I see someone confuse "there", "their" and "they're", or "hear" and "here", or "bear" and "bare", or invent words like "possoble" or "complicating" (as in "building a model is complicating").
Txt spk is a different matter, that just shows laziness and - to me at least - suggests the person is using it to hide the fact that they can't spell. Terms like "IMO" and "IIRC" I don't mind, as these are actually useful in the context of a sentence, but "LOL", "LMAO" and "my train got pwned" just make me want to cry.
Thankfully I am strong in the mind and manage to hold back the tears.
lol.
JB
I can speak for myself here as English is my second language (I am a French national) and I grit my teeth every time I see someone confuse "there", "their" and "they're", or "hear" and "here", or "bear" and "bare", or invent words like "possoble" or "complicating" (as in "building a model is complicating").
Txt spk is a different matter, that just shows laziness and - to me at least - suggests the person is using it to hide the fact that they can't spell. Terms like "IMO" and "IIRC" I don't mind, as these are actually useful in the context of a sentence, but "LOL", "LMAO" and "my train got pwned" just make me want to cry.
Thankfully I am strong in the mind and manage to hold back the tears.
lol.
JB
In a word: Yes.
A word to everyone using IE: stop using it now before the internet community at large finds out and humiliates you. This is for your own good.
I sure do respect anyone that can speak two languages, let alone write two languages! Heck, I couldn't order a snail in France! And RooRocz; nothing can humiliate me, I was married for 10 years!
Ed
Capt_Haddock
New member
Ed, I wholly agree with you.
Surely, the whole point of spelling and grammar rules is to make a common framework so that everyone following the same rules can understand each other. Writing with sloppy spelling and grammar shows a lack of respect for anyone that might read it and undermines what ever is trying to be said.
Like many people I do not find spelling easy (I am dyslexic) but, knowing this, I am doubly careful to check my writing before publishing it because I want other people to be able to read and understand what I am trying to say.
Season’s greetings
Chris
Surely, the whole point of spelling and grammar rules is to make a common framework so that everyone following the same rules can understand each other. Writing with sloppy spelling and grammar shows a lack of respect for anyone that might read it and undermines what ever is trying to be said.
Like many people I do not find spelling easy (I am dyslexic) but, knowing this, I am doubly careful to check my writing before publishing it because I want other people to be able to read and understand what I am trying to say.
Season’s greetings
Chris
Spelling errors are perfectly natural on the this type of medium. i.e. the Imnternet but of course it depends whether on whwtehr the thread is of much importance.
Also of course age, learning levels, country of origin, disabilites all play an important prt.
Quicly typed and full of errors.
Of course if we used the natural medium of quill and parchment, which most of us use, duly sealed with the proper wax seals there are rarely any errors.
Have a Nice Christmas and New Year to all whether you make many spelling errors or none.
Barry
Also of course age, learning levels, country of origin, disabilites all play an important prt.
Quicly typed and full of errors.
Of course if we used the natural medium of quill and parchment, which most of us use, duly sealed with the proper wax seals there are rarely any errors.
Have a Nice Christmas and New Year to all whether you make many spelling errors or none.
Barry
slave-driver
Sacramento Nothern Lives
Perfect? I just wish I could be normal. Then again it depends on your deffanition of normal.
Bill
Bill
Consider if you will, the group of old-timers at the local train club, reminiscing about the past and complaining about the future.
How the younger generations are so loud and brash and pushy, and they can't even spell or use grammar.
And as they talk and complain, perhaps one or two will pause and wonder why their ranks shrink and no new recruits step up to carry on.
Perhaps we should lead by example.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Boco
How the younger generations are so loud and brash and pushy, and they can't even spell or use grammar.
And as they talk and complain, perhaps one or two will pause and wonder why their ranks shrink and no new recruits step up to carry on.
Perhaps we should lead by example.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Boco
" When I was a boy, we didn't have no fancy schmancy spell checkers! No sir, and our computers burned WOOD for power! Sometimes the smoke got so thick you couldn't see what you was looking for on A-Bay! That's right....A-Bay they weren't up to "E" yet back then.....and anyhow, we didn't have any sissified "Edit" buttons or Namby-Pamby Moderators! If'n you typed in something somebody didn't like, they would come to your door and punch you in the face! That's right, you'd be minding your own business watching "National Geographic" on the picture box, and there would be a knock on your door, and some guy would just start wompin' on ya' fer no good reason dad-gum it! And you kids with yer' Trainz Classics 104 and 105, we didn't have no finey shiney Trainz Classics! We had to make our own routes, and our own code upgrades! And Trainz wasn't even a part of 2K games back then....no sir! Why, when I was a boy we didn't have no gussied up Paintshed Complete! We had regular Paintshed, and it only had five engines in it and you could only use 4 colors! That's right, and WE LIKED IT! And the FIRST Trainz didn't have no sounds in it neither! They sent you one of those air horns like you use at a Hockey game, and you had to blow THAT when ya' approached a crossing! Eh.....what sonny? Hockey game? Back when I was a boy there were lots of sports, not just Soccer, heck you could watch 'em on yer' picture box and........."
Ed
Ed
Very fair point, however when it's the younger generations getting worked up about other people's spelling and grammar then you know there's a problem! I'm 22 and I don't consider my age or the fact that I've grown up with computers around me (literally, my father worked for IBM in the 80s and early 90s) to be an excuse for sloppy spelling or the inability to form a coherent sentence, let alone punctuate it correctly.
JB
slave-driver
Sacramento Nothern Lives
So that's who was rolling on the floor laughing along side me.ROFLAO !!
Oh ! Sorry ---
I am rolling on the floor, laughing my a** off !
Bill