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13 Responses to "Spelling Hint to People on Forums"

1. | Reply Moitah
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 10:10am #
   

   Yeah, I guess you could do that in Javascript, underline every word on the page that doesn't belong to the dictionary !

   That would be fun 😉

2. | Reply NotABozo
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 10:14am #
   

   Perhaps you should get your own spelling in order before correcting that of others. Recieve.

3. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 10:21am #
   

   [quote comment="48034"]Perhaps you should get your own spelling in order before correcting that of others. Recieve.[/quote]

   I didn't mis-spell "receive" on that page. Two commenters (neither of them me) did. A third person quoted one of the commenters.

4. | Reply NotABozo
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 12:23pm #
   

   In that case, I apologise.

5. | Reply Daniel
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 2:37pm #
   

   Yeah, things like that really drive me nuts.

   Ones I see frequently:
   - "than" instead of "then" (and vice versa)
   - "it's" instead of "its"
   - "'s" used to pluralize

   Makes me wonder what our nation's public schools are teaching nowadays.

6. | Reply sjk
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 2:42pm #
   

   And what's with so many people on forums spelling "lose" with two o's?

7. | Reply Moitah
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 2:58pm #
   

   Maybe it's because most of the people on the internet aren't american, English or even from an English-Speaking country !

   Have you ever thought of that ?

   I'm french, for example... And still, 80% of the sites I visit are written in English.

8. | Reply Daniel
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 3:05pm #
   

   Moitah, I see these spelling and grammatical mistakes from people I know to be English-speaking Americans. We have a system-wide failure in our educational system here, but we as a country refuse to admit it.

   I can excuse mistakes made by non-native English speakers, just as I hope that native German- and Spanish-speaking people will excuse the mistakes I undoubtedly make in their languages.

9. | Reply Moitah
   Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 3:42pm #
   

   Okay... It's the same in France. (For the failure)

10. | Reply Tim
    Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 3:05pm #
    

    You should be happy that Firefox 3 is now out. It has spell check built-in like Safari.

11. | Reply sjk
    Posted 17 Jun 2008 at 6:48pm #
    

    [quote comment="48040"]Moitah, I see these spelling and grammatical mistakes from people I know to be English-speaking Americans.[/quote]
    That's what I was thinking, too. It's wasn't obvious who Moitah was responding to.

    Not to overgeneralize, but more than a few times I've observed how native English-speaking/writing American leave an impression of being careless/sloppy while the non-natives tend to be more conscientious/accurate.

    Writers who can't make an effort don't deserve my time and effort as a reader. If I'm not ignoring them, sometimes it's the sloppiest writers (from anywhere) making the most thoughtless "contributions" to discussions. There's probably a connection.

    [quote comment="48040"]We have a system-wide failure in our educational system here, but we as a country refuse to admit it.[/quote]
    America's in denial about many issues.

    [quote comment="48040"]I can excuse mistakes made by non-native English speakers, just as I hope that native German- and Spanish-speaking people will excuse the mistakes I undoubtedly make in their languages.[/quote]
    I'd better forgive my German wife for any mistakes since she's never given me a hard time for not making much effort to learn her language.

12. | Reply Jesper
    Posted 19 Jun 2008 at 1:38am #
    

    Software spell checking has only taught an entire generation that "definitely" is spelled "defiantly".

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