Spelling nazis

[MSTRS:Me]

American....

[Badjelly]

Do people really [c]are so much about spelling? Are people really that bored?

On an average day there are approximately 93,422 errors of spelling, punctuation, usage and grammar on KB, of which 3 get commented on. Which do you think is the bigger problem, the errors or the comments?

[mister.koz]

American....

So the English/GB would use an 's' instead?

On an average day there are approximately 93,422 errors of spelling, punctuation, usage and grammar on KB, of which 3 get commented on. Which do you think is the bigger problem, the errors or the comments?

Fact for useful conversation or unfounded fiction?

[MSTRS:Me]

i just found i got a negitive rep becose i criticizced some1 four corecting mi speiling, it was'nt the criticiszed who repped me by the way.

ill admit my messige mite of been snappy but i see pointless posts in threds all the time and allot of them are to do with speiling.

its quiet annoying when you are waiting for some help/advise from nowlidgable peeple who are in abundance here and you click the "new post to thred ..." link in yore email and get a pointless coment.

do peeple reely are so much about speiling? are peple reely that board?

i dont now how peple find the time!

This thread is just getting hilarious, if only i could have spelled everything wrong from my first post.

Fixed. And I agree with you...finding the time/effort to translate and extrapolate the meaning behind some posts can be more than it's worth in terms of what that poster may have to say.

[MSTRS:Me]

So the English/GB would use an 's' instead?



Fact for useful conversation or unfounded fiction?

Yes

[Badjelly]

On an average day there are approximately 93,422 errors of spelling, punctuation, usage and grammar on KB, of which 3 get commented on...

Fact for useful conversation or unfounded fiction?

Somewhere in between, tending to the latter. I think everyone will agree there are a lot of errors, in some cases enough to make it hard to understand WTF is being sad, more often just rather irritating.

[slimjim]

Yup, was going to mention that.
I'm crap with spelling/grammar, if KB didn't have spell check I think we would all be suffering...

fuck it. has spell check...aarr shit..where do you find that..

[AllanB]

Speaking of spelling, does anyone know whether 'z' in words like "categorization" are from an American dictionary or an English/GB dictionary?

Iwastaughtmanydecadesagotouse's'inthesecases,asint heEnglishspellingnottheAmerican.

[Hoon]

Spelling is important. First impressions are based on how well you portray yourself and if your post is full of spelling and grammatic errors, people may write you off as a dumbass and treat you as such.
The intelligent people whose advice you are desperately seeking may be put off and dismiss your post after the first sentence.

If someone corrects your spelling don't take it negatively. They are just trying to help. If you take offence at having your flaws pointed out then that is a "you" problem.

[mister.koz]

Fixed. And I agree with you...finding the time/effort to translate and extrapolate the meaning behind some posts can be more than it's worth in terms of what that poster may have to say.

I can't find a graphic that more expressive than combining and

I will set all of my auto-dictionaries to English/GB on my computers.

Somewhere in between, tending to the latter. I think everyone will agree there are a lot of errors, in some cases enough to make it hard to understand WTF is being sad, more often just rather irritating.

There are an abundance of errors but surprisingly some of them go unnoticed, although i am guessing than any spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors in this thread will be pointed out quite quickly

[MSTRS:Me]

Iwastaughtmanydecadesagotouse's'inthesecases,asint heEnglishspellingnottheAmerican.

Fuck me. You remembered some of those lessons...capitals, commas and apostrophes. Pity about the unecessary space...

[Badjelly]

fuck it. has spell check...aarr shit..where do you find that..

It underlines misspelled words in red as you type. It always works for me (though since I seldom mispell anything I seldom see the red line). Does it depend on the "Message Editor Interface" setting in your User Control Panel? I have "Standard Message Editor with Extra Formatting Controls".

[mister.koz]

Spelling is important. First impressions are based on how well you portray yourself and if your post is full of spelling and grammatic errors, people may write you off as a dumbass and treat you as such.
The intelligent people whose advice you are desperately seeking may be put off and dismiss your post after the first sentence.

If someone corrects your spelling don't take it negatively. They are just trying to help. If you take offence at having your flaws pointed out then that is a "you" problem.

Its pretty short-sighted to judge someone based on their spelling or grammar. Some of the smartest people i know failed English terribly at school, but their mathematics or physics results were in the high 90s.

[mister.koz]

It underlines misspelled words in red as you type. It always works for me (though since I seldom mispell anything I seldom see the red line). Does it depend on the "Message Editor Interface" setting in your User Control Panel? I have "Standard Message Editor with Extra Formatting Controls".

I thought that was Firefox rather than KB?

[MSTRS:Me]

Firefox also has a spellchecker inbuilt