Do you secretly think to yourself “Holy crap! I can’t believe it!”
Or do you think: “Yep, I’m a good spellr alrite.”
Me, I’m a “Holy crap! I can’t believe it!” kind of guy.
Do you secretly think to yourself “Holy crap! I can’t believe it!”
Or do you think: “Yep, I’m a good spellr alrite.”
Me, I’m a “Holy crap! I can’t believe it!” kind of guy.
Neither. While I am an exceelent speeler, I’m convinced a made a stupid typo that spelled a different word than what I intended.
C) It is SO a word. Sentence fragments are okay too. As a matter of fact, “sentence fragment” is a sentence fragment!
Yeah, pretty much what I say, or just “Wow!”
i make a lot more typos than spelling errors, as I type very fast and rather than stop and fix something, I just say, “What the hell, the spell checker will fix that later.”
Greatest invention since sliced bread (and I make my own bread, so have to slice it anyway).
This thread reminds me of a “Dilbert” cartoon.
An employee is talking to Dilbert’s Boss
Employee) And for your information my name is MYRON not MORON, please be more careful in the future when you use spellcheck.
Dilbert’s Boss) I have spellcheck?
I don’t use spellchecker because I don’t make spelling errors.
Generally, what I do is press the button a few more times; if that doesn’t work, I copy and paste the entire text on a fresh file and check again. If I still don’t get any results, I proofread the text very, very carefully until I find all the typos and spelling mistakes. It’s a pain in the neck, actually.
People use spellcheck? It underlines the objectionable words in red!
I proof it again to make sure I haven’t typed “diary” for “dairy.”
The last time I did it my only reaction was, “Whew! Now I can send this and go to bed.”
I don’t hit the spell checker function. It checks as it goes. But I kin spel gud neways.
I think I mentioned it in another thread some time back, but I don’t need a spellchecker.
I have an error correcting modem…
I haven’t hit the spell check button in … maybe 13 years. All you need to do is look for the red squiggles.
I think I added in a number and the spell check ignored some words because of that. Li2ke t7his.
I think “oh, hell, I accidentally marked the English language sections as ‘do not check’.”
I proof it to make sure “public sector” isn’t “pubic sector”.
Considering that I’ve always been a good speller, that I’ve been working in the language field for nine years, and that I just won $30 in a spelling bee (no, not joking), I accept it as business as usual.
Exactly - my thought is “Hmm, so all my typos created valid homophones. What a pain in the arse.”
You can get it to spot those, you know. In Word 2003, open your spellchecker, go to “Options” and uncheck “Ignore words with numbers”.
*Please *say it was to correct spelling.