Forum / Form - usage

**crow_noir** · 07-08-2007, 11:35 PM

He he... I had thought of buying Netscape because i totally HATED Firefox... then they came out with that nifty little spell check. Sometimes I was just too darn lazy to copy some of the words into OLE or MSWord. I love those nifty little red lines

Even if it's next to useless half the time for a correct spelling it still lets me know that it's there. I can go look it up rather than guessing.

Originally Posted by Reggie

If you use Firefox 2 it has an included spell-checker...

Firefox had its dark days for anyone that didn't know programming, then it became equipped with add-ons for the ill talented. Still, there was woe in the land for there beeth horred speelerz, thus the almighty cr380rz gave us The Red Lines. There was much rejoicing.

So says the self proclaimed Queen of Run On Sentences.

**crow_noir** · 07-08-2007, 11:49 PM

I do agree with you wholeheartedly. I was actually hoping this thread wouldn't turn into what it has since there is already one general venting thread out there. As i said... USUALLY i won't nag people because i know... anyone can make a mistake. And we all have different styles. Just i really had seen the misuse of form an unbelievable amount of times in two days.

I exploded. head went boom. (not angry... or anything like that... just frustrated? /

) I really did wonder the reasoning behind each misuse for each individual. I'm a curious person like that. (I wasn't about to join every single forum though and email every single article author, JUST to find out WHY they made the typo.)

I know many of my mistakes are because i plain simply don't know any better. (They stopped teaching us proper grammar around 6th grade. My 10th grade German teacher was furious when she found out the reason we weren't learning German grammar was because we didn't have a clue what the English terms were that she was asking us to translate. I had a 10th grade English teacher that got fired because he was teaching something that wasn't on the curriculum... and continued even though he was warned. ...He had been teaching us spelling. o.0' Some of the kids had complained about the extra work.

I actually didn't learn that CongraTulations is spelled with a T until a few years ago. I have the internet to thank for that. I thought others had been misspelling it. I thought it was spelled with a d. Everyone here pronounces it with a d.)

Originally Posted by Pembroke_Corgi

The difference between "forum" and "form?" One letter.

My biggest pet peeve about spelling/grammar on this forum is how often people have to come out and be the spelling police. I think people honestly try to write sensibly. Typos happen, and sometimes even if you proofread your post they can slip by. I really don't understand why people equate spelling with intelligence.

**crow_noir** · 07-08-2007, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by Randi

A site and a forum are two different things though.

He he... I have fun with this thanks to a math class in high school. Forget what chapter or what it was relevant to.

A: A forum can be a site, but not all sites are forums.

Q: Does S = F ?

**Taz_Zoee** · 07-09-2007, 12:27 AM

I try my best to have proper spelling and grammar. Although, I will admit I am guilty of using the slang word gonna a LOT! Sorry if it irritates anyone.

But if I am unsure of how to spell a word I will type it in word or my outlook. Doing this also teaches me how to spell.

(Boy I sure hope I didn't make any mistakes on this post.

)

**cassiesmom** · 07-18-2007, 01:12 PM

Originally Posted by sirrahbed

I have tended to be a member of the "Spelling Police" for most of my early years (college major was English the first time around

)...but now I make so many of my own goofs that I don't have much room to point out the goofs I see. If I stop and think - I know proper grammar (not grammer!) rules and usage rules, but don't always use them anymore. I wonder if I am losing brain cells or getting my punishment for being picky. Like Kay, I do cringe now and then though.

I'm a full fledged Spelling Police Officer. Won the junior high spelling bee in eighth grade. I was blown out of the water by the words spelled by the Scripps Spelling Bee students, though. There were some I had not even heard before.

When my nieces send e-mail and text messages, they do use 'prolly' as shorthand for 'probably'. Their old aunt (me) also learned a new one from them today: 'cos' is shorthand for 'because', at least around here

I had a teacher in high school that insisted on proper pronunciation for words like what, when, why: "hwat", "hwen", "hwy" instead of "wat", "wen", "wy". That's a habit I never did get into.