Spell Check

[Tomcat]

First off, let me point out that this is supposed to be humorous. I'm not going after anyone in particular. You know who you are!
I see here at OTT and MANY other sites bad spelling in the posts. Don't get me wrong, I'm no A student. Far from it. If it hadn't been for all the shop classes offered at my high school I never would have gotten enough credits to graduate! I'm just wondering if the automatic spell check only works for some posters and not others.
Any thoughts?

 

[Daren Todd]

Mines fat fingers and dyslexia depends really on the device and settings. On my tablet, if I mispell something it automatically gives it as on option next time if I hit the space bar

 

[skeets]

I nevr had prblums speeling, eye was huked on fonex rewl yong

 

[85Hokie]

First off, let me point out that this is supposed to be humorous. I'm not going after anyone in particular. You know who you are!
I see here at OTT and MANY other sites bad spelling in the posts. Don't get me wrong, I'm no A student. Far from it. If it hadn't been for all the shop classes offered at my high school I never would have gotten enough credits to graduate! I'm just wondering if the automatic spell check only works for some posters and not others.
Any thoughts?

Tomcat,

Being the shop teacher for almost 30 years, spell check is the only way I can survive - if'n I was to rite sumthin 'portant to sum1 dat matterd I gotsta hav it workn rite!

ON my screen every time I misspell a word - it underlines it in Red!!! Hell, I had to ask the wife just now to make sure that I SPELLED.....misssssspell right!!!

thank God for spell check !!! only if I had that @#$%$^@ thing in college, I would not have had to carry that dictionary around !!!!

 

[2grit]

The kids tell me that spelling isn't graded in school any more. What counts is if you try!!!!!!Back in the day........

 

[Tomcat]

u gize make me laff

 

[D2Cat]

My problem with spell check is, spell check may be right, but it doesn't know what my brain wants.

Example: I type "you" and I mean "your". Happens frequently. Maybe I have nerve damage somewhere!!

 

[pendoreille]

and then there is google voice wow that can be a novel in itself

 

[lreops]

The Lost, Forgotten Skill and Pride of Proofreading. Plus, Many just don't care, think it's not important, or it just takes too much time on how they present themselves and their thoughts in print. Many, many times I have and will quit reading posts that are bad in grammar and spelling. I figure, why should I struggle and take the time to understand and decipher someone's thoughts when they can't make an effort.

Just my 2½¢!

Ron

 

[Toyboy]

Your right, every now and then a tough one comes along. I do re-read my posts to see if they make sense before I post them.

 

[skeets]

I do believe that those of us that do check and sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't. And like I said we are of a dyeing breed, things that we once important no longer are, only that you try, and no child is left behind,, BS

 

[85Hokie]

I do believe that those of us that do check and sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't. And like I said we are of a dyeing breed, things that we once important no longer are, only that you try, and no child is left behind,, BS

Skeets,

IF YOU mention that NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND AGAIN....

I will disown you !!!!!!

that whole thing is a crock of sh ............

just the thought that the real world is a fair place and all the little kiddies should all get trophies and everything will be ok .......pisses me off!

the real world is a brutal ugly world, start GETTING use to it as you get educated !!! Work harder than the next guy, or die trying!

 

[BadDog]

I agree with all said. I'm not much help here, but on other forums I provide varying amounts of assistance as I am able and feel qualified. As has been said, I'm not putting more effort into reading a post for help than the person who posted it. I'm not talking about an odd fumble fingered misspelled word here and there (or spell check misfire), I have a few of those along the way. But the ones with horrendous spelling, consistent run on sentences, little or no punctuation, I'm just not interested. Even if I get the gist and know the answer, I just move along to the whatever is next. I recall someone on one of the boards getting annoyed that they were not getting assistance, then being gently urged to take a little time to post coherent questions. Their response was a tirade about how they didn't come there to be graded on spelling and grammar. Ridiculous...

 

[Daren Todd]

Isn't that the truth next thing you know they'll do the same with math
I have a nephew thats a victim of the no child left behind. Kid reads and understands at a 3rd grade level. He's 24 kid wanted to join the military, took him 4 tries before he made the bare minumum to pass the test. First time he took it, he scored a 5. Course his mom and dad are just as much at fault as the school is.

 

[85Hokie]

Isn't that the truth next thing you know they'll do the same with math
I have a nephew thats a victim of the no child left behind. Kid reads and understands at a 3rd grade level. He's 24 kid wanted to join the military, took him 4 tries before he made the bare minumum to pass the test. First time he took it, he scored a 5. Course his mom and dad are just as much at fault as the school is.

I have two license plates hanging in the classroom......
something like this !

 

[Daren Todd]

I have two license plates hanging in the classroom......
something like this !

Thats so true I want to smack the hell out of parents that can't take the time to work with there kids. Or especially the ones that get mad because they feel that there kid deserves something even though they didn't earn it. Then they wonder why this generation has such a sense of entitlement

 

[85Hokie]

Thats so true I want to smack the hell out of parents that can't take the time to work with there kids. Or especially the ones that get mad because they feel that there kid deserves something even though they didn't earn it. Then they wonder why this generation has such a sense of entitlement

I call this generation the "me" generation ....it is all about "me" ----pay me now and I will cut your grass tomorrow.....

But at the same time the real world gets them straight (eventually)......thank goodness for the real world !

 

[Tomcat]

like I said we are of a dyeing breed

Hey skeets, you work in the garment industry? Maybe you meant dying -LOL

 

[Tooljunkie]

I have two license plates hanging in the classroom......
something like this !

I have a t-shirt like that....
I tend to run on,mis-spell mostly to fat fingers and my little phone. Ok, fingers arent fat, just no pinpoint accuracy.

I usually proof-read after posting,then go back and edit. I try,i said. A+for trying, right?

I know graduates that shouldna. And i dropped out in grade ten.

The selling sites (ebay, kijiji) drive me crazy.
Item for sale is bran new. Really? Thats the tip of the iceberg.
Nuf said.

 

[skeets]

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD, AND SARA HAS 2 MOMMIES,, yeah tell me about the BS.
When we were kids, you got held back a grade that was like a kick to the , nu,,,,,,,,,, ahhh you know what I mean. But to hold a child back to day OMG that is degrading to the child's self image and he/she will be ridiculed by their peers.
And to top it off you have the hero's of these kids today, football basket ball what ever sport you pick it,,, And these clowns make more in one day than I do in a year, and they cannot complete a sentence with out,, ahhh,, hummm,, you know, like,, and it goes on and on.. Yes it surely pisses me off as well, when you have young engineers that are supposedly EE's that cannot figure out Ohms Law with out their damned phones or a calculator... But I digress