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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: pedigree porker on February 22, 2010, 08:46:16 pm
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I will admit, I'm the worlds worse speller, but at least I know where the spell checker is, my errors are usually typographical anyway. If i can locate the spell checker, then why can't other people????
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Oh but the spell checker comes up with loads of alternatives and you have to know which one you want???? ;) and anyway, it was my keyboard, honest, I now have 2 new ones and they are much better so bad spelling is down to me :o......some people may be dyslexic and some not so educated!! I am not a person with either but many people are!!! I just have always had too quick a brain to stop to check everytime and I think most people get my drift and as I am not in an exam, thats OK...done that, done well but no more, I'm just me! You can mark/correct my posts if you want!!!
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It's bad punctuation that gets my goat. I find badly punctuated or, more likely, unpunctuated text incredibly difficult to read and understand. But then that's why we have punctuation. My former boss bought me Lynne Truss's book "Eats, shoots and leaves", which I loved. I can spot a misplaced apostrophe a mile off. It's funny how folk will tolerate poor spelling, punctuation and grammar in e-communication but wouldn't in the written word.
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Been thinking about this!!! This is a nice friendly forum, I would hate to put those off people who struggle with spelling (like me) I used to have to write court reports and that was a different kettle of fish, I would check and double check, grammer and punctuations as well as spelling, but this is for fun, I love it but hate people correcting me..if I was not such a strong personality I would not post anymore and I am well able to read and have a laugh or to be informed by those who spell poorly or write poorly, after all, it's our different charactor's and I read each post as if I know that person and have different voices in my head for their spellings etc, so please, let's not get too correct, after all, it's fun and a great forum for EVERYONE, not just those who have no learning difficulties ;)
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We're not going to black ball anyone, Sandy. What amazes and disappoints me is the standard found in official communications. I don't mind here because it's a fun thing. It's things like road signs and notices in shop windows - it's just such a lack of attention to detail. I've got a daughter with learning disabilities who can't write at all but I love her anyway - I'm not that judgemental, but the apostrophe is my "thing", I suppose.
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if i new ware the spel cheacker was i would ewes it for shure my speling not very good butt i doo trie quiet hard ;D
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But I understand from school that spelling is only important in certain lessons!! It is not corrected in other lessons as it seems to be deemed irrelevant. I understand to a certain extent (the odd mistake is not a problem and can add, albeit unintended, humour!) but what seems to be forgotten is that something poorly spelt and punctuated can be very difficult to understand. I have e-mails from a young relative which are almost indecipherable - and its not all down to text-speak!
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;Don't worry, I totally agree when it comes to work!!! I used to read reports etc all the time that even I noticed were very poorly written, a lot you could hardly read, I used to be shocked by that as the level we were all employed at demanded a certain amount of intellect ;) ;)I did try very hard at work and would do again.....I remember helping as a teaching assistant in an upper school and the Young people were asked to name some millitant and terrorist groups, I came up with loads ALL had names I had difficulty spelling and the deputy Head was looking over my shoulder as the young people asked me how to spell them..how embarrassing :-[
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heyuprosemarydoyoumeantotellusyoucannotunderstandthewrittenwerdwhenitsroteandspeledlikethis.Oh heck ;D
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;DNearly passed out holding my breath
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Looks like someones on the autism spectrum?
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Im the same as Rosemary, at work (shhhh!) I have been known to change incorrectly spelt or inappropriate apostrophes on notices & memos. I fully understand people have difficulties, (I work with young people with special educational needs after all !)
but take time and think....
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Im the same as Rosemary
I take it you mean I'm? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Why the devil we are even discussing spelling is beyond me - I love reading Sandy's posts - never know what she is going to say next or whether I'll even understand it ::). Thank goodness she is only up the road and I can drop in past and ask her!(and cadge a cup of tea ;))
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It really doesn't matter how people spell things as long as we can all understand what it written.
Technically our brain would figure out whatever was written to something we are familiar with.
As an ex nurse has anyone tried to understand what a doctor writes?
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He he - my wonderful GP son-in-law once failed an exam because the examiners couldn't read his writing! He passed every other exam with distinction - I don't remember what the subject was but he had got so excited when writing that his pen couldn't keep up with his brain! ::) ;D ;D
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Im the same as Rosemary
I take it you mean I'm? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Wow, within 3 minutes! First prize to you Annie!! x
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My apologies - no offence intended. I was a proof reader in an earlier life for a time. ;)
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It was a joke! what sort of things did you proof read? Sounds good to me - as long as the taxts are interesting!
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You don't actually absorb what you are reading. I was Company Accountant for a Printing Company and the Boss decided it was about time we had a proof reader. Since I was the only member of staff with a University education I was roped in - didn't get any extra pay though ;) So the stuff I was reading was very varied, but none of it actually went into my head!
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Proper punctuation is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse. ;)
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*wipes tea off screen* :o ;D ;D
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thank god it was just tea !!!!!
cheers
Russ
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EWW RUSS!! :o :o What are you saying??? ;D ;D
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well it could have been COFFEE ....much harder to clean off !!!
cheers
Russ
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;D ;D, now thats very funny!!!!! I spell checked a report for Social Services once about a disabled young boy, I did the sell check but it changed my poor spelling into other words, I said he was a well mannerd young boy and is taken to school in a large push chair BUT, it was changed to " He is a well manured young man who is taken to school in a posh chair" :-[ see what I mean about spell checks?
My OH has dyslexia and he puts full stops, comers etc where they should not go, it can be very funny at times, he also misunderstands lot's of things far to numerous to post but the latest was when I wrote an advert saying how near we were to the power station, I said Approximately and he said, no, you cannot be that accurate!!! so he obviously thought the opposite to what it actually means......he always used to ask what he was on forms that said " what is our sexuality, heterosexual or other...OH never knows without asking!! (well maybe that says something!!) He also has to think and ask when on forms it says, "have you had any convictions etc?" he never knows whether to say, "yes, I have no convictions or No, I have no convictions" so see what I mean???? Friday we went to Tesco with one of our guests who was going to have a meal with us....my OH sometimes get a little paranoia re male guests and needs reassurance, anyway, the trolley was going wobbly so I asked my OH to push it and he said "your only showing off to John, walking without a trolley!!" we were all in stitches ;D ;DBless, he found it funny too!!!
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Looks like someones on the autism spectrum?
Do you mean me, Jackie? Oh, undoubtedly. I have to have the crockery in the right place in the pantry, with the cup handles pointing in the correct direction; my daughter has socks with days of the week on them and she HAS to have the correct pair on, I could go on.
There should be an apostrophe in "someone's" to indicate the missing "i" ;D
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Rosemary there is a story about an Irish site foreman who went inti John Lewis and bought a pair of silver wellies and had the girl paint a r for right and l for left When he got home he shouted Coleen come and look at these They're smart Murph whats the two walking sticks for why is one upside down? They're not walking sticks this on is r and this one is l so I know I have them on the right feet.Thats clever.So thats what. With out you're explicit permission I wont finish it and no its not got any GR type words in its the implication and word association oh dear! ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
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We are all good at something! I can spell and punctuate but, ask me to do sums, even easy ones and I'm flummoxed!
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Hello Sylvia Now theres a word I have not heard in the ages of a crow.How long is that? Don't know really but a good long time.Grannie Hammond always used it.To days equivalent? Gob smacked? You tell me ;D :farmer:
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Rosemary there is a story about an Irish site foreman who went inti John Lewis and bought a pair of silver wellies and had the girl paint a r for right and l for left When he got home he shouted Coleen come and look at these They're smart Murph whats the two walking sticks for why is one upside down? They're not walking sticks this on is r and this one is l so I know I have them on the right feet.Thats clever.So thats what. With out you're explicit permission I wont finish it and no its not got any GR type words in its the implication and word association oh dear! ;D ;D ;D :farmer:
A buddy of mine is a Dyslexic Pimp, he was looking some new premise and ended up buying a warehouse ;D
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I keep spell checking everything now ::)!!!! I remember the story in the papers about a man who was a paediatrician, local thugs beat him up thinking he was a pedophile!! :(
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I'm led to believe thats why the C C of the Humberside Police is so anti vigilante more than most as I read it.Yes I can read its all RAB Butler's fault ;D ;D ;D :farmer: