Spelling does count in life!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by gini

Richard, this has nothing to do with spelling. You just triggered a memory.

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for some reason the memories i trigger aren't that pleasant, eh?

lol,

a few years back i met a great gal! we became good friends and began to hang out regularly.

she was a bright and educated gal but people had problems with ther handwriting-no misspellings or grammatical errors......her printing was like reading a 5th grader's paper...i had no problem with that....until one of the other clerks came up to me and asked me if i, "could help 'C' with her writing.."

i was mad that someone had discounted this person because of the way she PRINTED..not only that, they didn't have the cojones to tell her themselves!!!

[Randi]

Originally posted by RICHARD
... any doctors out there???? lol, for some, their handwriting is legendary for being bad... people would bring me doctor's orders to decode.....yikes!

Try translating a dentist professors speach - to whatever language you want!! I did it once from english to danish - actually, it could have the other way around, I can't remember - but what a job! I got paid for it though!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Randi
Try translating a dentist professors speach - to whatever language you want!! I did it once from english to danish - what a job! But I got paid for it!

you didn't get paid enough i'll bet!

if they made a mistake did you correct it or translate it too?
i guess doctor's mistakes transcend all boundaries!! it's nice to know they are the same all over the world!

[Randi]

Originally posted by RICHARD
you didn't get paid enough i'll bet!

No, you're right, I should have charged far more - I could have eaten caviar that whole week! - not to mention Champaigne!! (spelling?)

Originally posted by RICHARD
.... if they made a mistake did you correct it or translate it too? i guess doctor's mistakes transcend all boundaries!! it's nice to know they are the same all over the world!

Yes, all latin! Yes, I would have corrected the mistakes -there weren't any!

[cali]

if this is how you guys think then just be glad I was not here when i first started posting on boards, I was horrable people avoided my posts cuz they could not read them, now people on the same boards are commenting on how much I have improoved, my typing has improoved, my spelling and my reading have all improoved, even my temper has improoved, and i can be more rational about things etc.. etc.. be very very glad that this is the most recent board I have joined

[catland]

Spell-checking can be evil when it automatically changes the spelling. How can I learn to type the word correctly when the spell-check fixes my errors without my awareness.

Also, there are victims out there of teaching methods that emphasized sight-reading over learning to pronounce and sound out words. Both my husband and my brother suffered this indignity that has plagued them their entire adult lives.

(great - you've made me so paranoid that I had to copy this and paste it into Word to make sure I have no typos )

[Denyce]

I am so very glad that someone started this thread. I have been wanting to but was nervous about it. Also I didn't know about dictionary.com so that is now properly bookmarked. I too do not mind the occasional typo or even several if I can tell the person is making an attempt. There are many times my fingers get all tangled with one another and I don't realize it till I have hit "submit reply". I am in such a hurry to get my thought out there I can't wait. *LOL*

However, that being said, I really can not stand chat speak. I stop reading posts and usually tend to discount what people have to say who use this. I did not care for this in the chat rooms I used and I really do not care for it in this forum. My opinion is if you do not have the respect for me to spend the time it takes to type out those long words like...you, see, are etc then why should I have respect for you and take the time to read your post.

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by cali
if this is how you guys think then just be glad I was not here when i first started posting on boards, I was horrable people avoided my posts cuz they could not read them, now people on the same boards are commenting on how much I have improoved, my typing has improoved, my spelling and my reading have all improoved, even my temper has improoved, and i can be more rational about things etc.. etc.. be very very glad that this is the most recent board I have joined

Dictionary.com could help you alot to improve your spelling.

[babolaypo65]

I'm funny. There are certain words, like definitely, that most folks spell wrong, and it doesn't bother me.
It partly depends on how frequently the word is spelled wrong.

Word substitutions, like: they're/their/there or then/than or whose/who's make me cringe.

One or two words spelled wrong, no problem, but if I have to read a post out loud to understand it, there's a problem. And for several posters, I just don't, it's too annoying to do it over and over again.

I use dictionary.com and webster.com.

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by babolaypo65


Word substitution, like: they're/their/there or then/than or whose/who's that make me cringe.

I have trouble with those alot. I think i'm getting better though. I just wish the American Language wasn't so difficult. There's so many words that are spelt similar or sound the same.

[sasvermont]

Cali, your typing/spelling is just about what we are talking about here. Many of us are required to put a proper sentence together and spell correctly and when some people do the internet chat thing here, it irks many people.

I know that some of the younger people here will have a rude awakening when they reach the working world and the cannot write properly. I fault the schools. My parents were very, very strict about penmanship, writing, reading, speaking correctly. I cringe at the office when I hear people use the English language so very poorly. Education, education, education.

The internet is "in" but so is "Language".

Phred is permanently excused and most people of foreign descent know three or four languages and we would expect them to not know every word perfectly.

I think our school systems are working on the "dumbing down" mode these days. Very sad.

[Kfamr]

In English last year we didn't do much spelling.. I loved Spelling test... it was basically an easy "A".


All you had to do was study all of your words, and you got 100%

I miss those test.

[Barbara]

It helps sometimes to see that the native speakers are misspelling words (there are quite some people here who write "definately" e.g.) because since I am on PT, the fat (1500 pages) bilingual dictionary lies right besides the computer -but if I looked up every single word I could never had reached pillarhood

If the cats and dogs write (especially the nawteedawgs) it's cute and funny -but with some of the younger internet persons I have problems to understand. But in general the level of writing here is high. It's one of the reasons I prefer this website to any other -even in my own language.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Gowsh, Cin - I tink summa dem is fur shure
talkin bout US!

Hope Dad duzint see dis - he mite kut our puter tyme...

An Dad sez...
It's ALMOST as hard to creatively MISS-spell a word
as it is to actually get it rite!

"Sorry" (or iz it 'sorrie'?) if the FurKids' Grammur & Sphelling tend
to rub some the wrong way ~
Wunce Upon a Tyme we thunk it wuz kute!

"Dad" used to sign on as "Phred" when he wanted to be *serious*...
but that's a bit of a pain to do several times a day...
and we often "furgot" to switch back and forth with the *proper* log-in!

One thing that works - http://www.google.com can ALSO be used
as a crude spell-checker...
type the word in question into the search box and <enter>...
you will usually get at least a few hits that give you a clue
if you've got the correct spelling or it suggests a variant.
And Google is a LOT quicker than any spell-checker / dictionary we've tried.

We'll take the comments under advisement.

[babolaypo65]

That's a great idea! The "did you mean" thing on google would work great!