How's your spilling? ;)

[Gary Duane]

Or how do yoo do wen you have too right with know spill chucker? @stringertom

ST, by the way, has personally make my spelling worse, since he writes daily with his own custom way of spelling. But this is actually a potentially serious thread.

My spelling was atrocious before word processing, and I literally had to use synonyms in writing for all the words I could not spell. It's gotten a lot better because of the constant red lines that not only alert me when I'm typing too fast, which is not really a spelling problem, but also when I spell something I either think is right, or hope is right, when in fact I have it wrong.

In the last 24 hours I had to Google about 5 words, one of which is "colossal", which I tried to spell: collossal, collosal and colosal. Well, I knew the last one was wrong, but I give myself one or two tries of trying to make the red line go away before I revert to checking.

I write hundreds of words every day, and when I have time to check I almost never make visible errors. My students all think I am an excellent speller because I type like the wind and sometimes without looking at the screen.

I'm the only one who knows the truth - I'm "spelling challenged". So I'm coming out the closet.

How many other people here can't write 200 words without errors if they turn off spell-check?

 

[Gary Duane]

And, by the way, when I talk about "spelling challenged" I'm not including typos. I just found four in the above post that I already fixed. My careless mistakes are another thing. I can't write anything correctly without proofing, and I don't always catch stupid mistakes until later. They only jump out at me when I've forgotten what I wrote and start reading through my own text as if someone else write it.

 

[stringertom]

Eye knead a drinque two eeze mye knerves aftur seaing ewer poast.

 

[MurraysMetalHip]

Brilyunt

 

[Lleytonstation]

Well with my perfect score of a 100 on the IQ, I would say I would spell 100 right out of 200...

But seriously, I rely on it too much, but it has helped my spelling.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

I thought that that is a whisky thread in disguise.

Disgust.

 

[r2473]

How many other people here can't write 200 words without errors if they turn off spell-check?

200 words without errors

 

[Gary Duane]

200 words without errors

On a good day, maybe, for me. But I have to get lucky and not use words I don't normally write. My passive vocabulary is huge.

How do you know what something is right? Do you just close your eyes and see it? My mother was a secretary. She could type very fast without errors, and she was like a walking spelling dictionary.

I have a similar ability in sound. When I hear something, I know what it is. Perfect pitch, so no searching, and I hear chords and scales totally accurately. But I don't remember text, never could. I can hum any theme in the universe, then sit down and either play it or write it out. Yet I can't quote anything. My visual memory sucks.

 

[Gary Duane]

I thought that that is a whisky thread in disguise.

Disgust.

Or an AA meeting: "I've spilled more booze then you've drunk in your life."

 

[Gary Duane]

Well with my perfect score of a 100 on the IQ, I would say I would spell 100 right out of 200...

But seriously, I rely on it too much, but it has helped my spelling.

It's actually improved my spelling so much that most of the time I'm right. I can type quite a bit without getting a red line except for typos, so I find the line useful for catching careless errors. Sometimes weird things come out of my fingers as if they have a life of their own, so some of my typos are correct words but wrong, the "their are" kind of typos.

Still there are times when I try spelling something two or three ways and strike out, then go to Google. Thank GOD we don't have to look things up in dictionaries.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Or an AA meeting: "I've spilled more booze then you've drunk in your life."

I already like the person who said that.

 

[Gary Duane]

I already like the person who said that.

Me too:

Another favorite:

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

But my very favorite, not AA approved:

"Sought through prayer and medication to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him..."

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Me too:

Another favorite:

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”

But my very favorite, not AA approved:

"Sought through prayer and medication to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him..."

That is some elite attitude towards the important things in life.

 

[Lleytonstation]

It's actually improved my spelling so much that most of the time I'm right. I can type quite a bit without getting a red line except for typos, so I find the line useful for catching careless errors. Sometimes weird things come out of my fingers as if they have a life of their own, so some of my typos are correct words but wrong, the "their are" kind of typos.

Still there are times when I try spelling something two or three ways and strike out, then go to Google. Thank GOD we don't have to look things up in dictionaries.

The blue lines are killers for me. Never know what they mean either. That is punctuation or ordering mistakes.

 

[Tennease]

Eye knead a drinque two eeze mye knerves aftur seaing ewer poast.

Wait till the afternoon.

 

[Tennease]

"Sought through prayer and medication to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him..."

Wouldn't sound so bad if you switch the c and t, sounds a bit Spanishy. Meditacion.

 

[stringertom]

Wait till the afternoon.

Y waist a good eaukashun two git drunque just beecoz itt happinns inn the mourning???

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Y waist a good eaukashun two git drunque just beecoz itt happinns inn the mourning???

It is no coincidence that some spell it "moarning".

 

[Tennease]

Y waist a good eaukashun two git drunque just beecoz itt happinns inn the mourning???

You might miss the benefit of drinking in the afternoon with @SoBad.

 

[stringertom]

You might miss the benefit of drinking in the afternoon with @SoBad.

Happy Hour iz four ammatours...a preaux lyke mee drinques mourning, newn anne knight!

 

[stringertom]

200 words without errors

That’s only 5 (200 is two words).

 

[r2473]

That’s only 5 (200 is two words).

I wrote exactly what he asked me to write

 

[stringertom]

I wrote exactly what he asked me to write

Repete 39x anne ewer misshun wood bee akkomplished.

 

[Chadalina]

How many other people here can't write 200 words without errors if they turn off spell-check?

I disabled my spell check and all the other tracking options in the browser/os.

 

[Tennease]

This is why AI is bad for the development of future human's brains. They rely too much on AI to auto correct their writing and lower their spelling skill.

 

[stringertom]

This is why AI is bad for the development of future human's brains. They rely too much on AI to auto correct their writing and lower their spelling skill.

Lurning mye knew langwidge haz maid mee mutch sharpurr!

 

[Sudacafan]

I am a spelling freak.
I think that spelling mistakes represent punishable offenses.

 

[Sudacafan]

Lurning mye knew langwidge haz maid mee mutch sharpurr!

True. I read something of the sort regarding the benefits of mastering additional languages to enhance brain function and prevent related diseases.
I hope you have already experimented these advantages since you started.

 

[Sudacafan]

Or how do yoo do wen you have too right with know spill chucker? @stringertom

ST, by the way, has personally make my spelling worse, since he writes daily with his own custom way of spelling. But this is actually a potentially serious thread.

My spelling was atrocious before word processing, and I literally had to use synonyms in writing for all the words I could not spell. It's gotten a lot better because of the constant red lines that not only alert me when I'm typing too fast, which is not really a spelling problem, but also when I spell something I either think is right, or hope is right, when in fact I have it wrong.

In the last 24 hours I had to Google about 5 words, one of which is "colossal", which I tried to spell: collossal, collosal and colosal. Well, I knew the last one was wrong, but I give myself one or two tries of trying to make the red line go away before I revert to checking.

I write hundreds of words every day, and when I have time to check I almost never make visible errors. My students all think I am an excellent speller because I type like the wind and sometimes without looking at the screen.

I'm the only one who knows the truth - I'm "spelling challenged". So I'm coming out the closet.

How many other people here can't write 200 words without errors if they turn off spell-check?

I will read your whole post later, but in the meantime I hope you are not talking about urinary behavior in the toilet.

 

[Sentinel]

In the last 24 hours I had to Google about 5 words, one of which is "colossal", which I tried to spell: collossal, collosal and colosal. Well, I knew the last one was wrong, but I give myself one or two tries of trying to make the red line go away before I revert to checking.

So basically you can't remember where double letters are required. Is it really your fault or some arbitrary choice in the language ?

I am embarrassed to admit that i can't spell embarassed without a spell-checker.
Then there is occasion and accommodate.
I occasionally type occassion and accomodate.

 

[Sudacafan]

So basically you can't remember where double letters are required. Is it really your fault or some arbitrary choice in the language ?

I am embarrassed to admit that i can't spell embarassed without a spell-checker.
Then there is occasion and accommodate.
I occasionally type occassion and accomodate.

You will love committee.

 

[Gary Duane]

I will read your whole post later, but in the meantime I hope you are not talking about urinary behavior in the toilet.

Hold on: are you talking about urinarie incompatance?

Seriously, I wish I had a list of words I've looked up in the last month. Sometimes I look at the screen and swear: "What the fork did I do THIS time???"

But to me the funniest thing is that I also have a mental list of words that get a red line that are perfectly correct but for some reason not in the dictionary.

Then there are these:

• theatre
• libelled
• judgement
• pedalling (we use this a LOT in piano)
• practise
• colour

My rude American system labels all of these as wrong except judgement, which traditionally should be judgment.

 

[Sudacafan]

Hold on: are you talking about urinarie incompatance?

Seriously, I wish I had a list of words I've looked up in the last month. Sometimes I look at the screen and swear: "What the fork did I do THIS time???"

But to me the funniest thing is that I also have a mental list of words that get a red line that are perfectly correct but for some reason not in the dictionary.

Then there are these:

• theatre
• libelled
• judgement
• pedalling (we use this a LOT in piano)
• practise
• colour

My rude American system labels all of these as wrong except judgement, which traditionally should be judgment.

Most of those are British English spellings, which are different for certain words in American English.
Just change the dictionary employed to British English.

 

[Sentinel]

My rude American system labels all of these as wrong except judgement, which traditionally should be judgment.

I've never understood why judgement is spelled as judgment. I mean we don't write managment do we ?

I am a spelling freak.
I think that spelling mistakes represent punishable offenses.

Fedace would hang if misteaks were punishibble. (by the weigh, you committed an offence in your poast).

 

[Sudacafan]

Fedace would hang if misteaks were punishibble. (by the weigh, you committed an offence in your poast).

Offense is correct and it’s the most common spelling in American English. Offence is British English.

Offence vs. Offense—What Is the Difference?

Offence and offense are both correct. Offence is the spelling more commonly used outside of the United States. Offense…

www.grammarly.com

 

[Sudacafan]

I've never understood why judgement is spelled as judgment. I mean we don't write managment do we ?

If it was pronounced manadgment, you’d have a case. Managment would sound different.

 

[Gary Duane]

I've never understood why judgement is spelled as judgment. I mean we don't write managment do we ?


Fedace would hang if misteaks were punishibble. (by the weigh, you committed an offence in your poast).

Because the extra e is to stop mispronunciation. You can say the g in manage like manag, and managment would would have that hard g. You can't do that with judge. If you just write judg, the sound will be the same.

 

[Raul_SJ]

I am a spelling freak.
I think that spelling mistakes represent punishable offenses.

The nuns would yank on my ears and whack my fingers with a ruler for spelling errors.

 

[Sudacafan]

I've never understood why judgement is spelled as judgment. I mean we don't write managment do we ?


Fedace would hang if misteaks were punishibble. (by the weigh, you committed an offence in your poast).

delete post

 

[PrinceMoron]

I thought that that is a whisky thread in disguise.

Disgust.

Or do you mean whiskey?

Depends on what you fancy


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[Sudacafan]

The nuns would yank on my ears and whack my fingers with a ruler for spelling errors.

Did that help? It seems it did.

 

[Tennis_Hands]

Or do you mean whiskey?

Depends on what you fancy


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Them drunkards in Ireland cannot get even the whisky straight.

Talisker is a great whisky.

 

[Chadalina]

Lasangua = Lasagne for me, one of my hardest words and i eat it alot. I pronouce it with a "uuh" at the end, not a hard E

I seem to add alot of U's to my mispellings (i know two S, but doesnt look write, har har). Think its because i had a speech impedement with the letter R when i was younger, everything came out W or U. I type how i see words up there.

 

[Azure]

StringyTommy is the Tolkien of this forum. He created a new language.

Hee izz mye gewrew.

 

[GBplayer]

This thread is tongue in cheek? American English uses phonetic spelling, which means that you are unable to spell?

 

[Raul_SJ]

This thread is tongue in cheek? American English uses phonetic spelling, which means that you are unable to spell?

Colonel. Indictment. Guarantee.

 

[Chadalina]

StringyTommy is the Tolkien of this forum. He created a new language.

Hee izz mye gewrew.

 

[GBplayer]

Stringer Tom looks far more cute and cuddly than I would have imagined.

 

[stringertom]

Offense is correct and it’s the most common spelling in American English. Offence is British English.

Offence vs. Offense—What Is the Difference?

Offence and offense are both correct. Offence is the spelling more commonly used outside of the United States. Offense…

www.grammarly.com

Same for “theater” and “center”. The “er” is inverted in English English.

The Brits also love to add “u” to “o”. Color becomes colour.

 

[Sentinel]

Same for “theater” and “center”. The “er” is inverted in English English.

The Brits also love to add “u” to “o”. Color becomes colour.

I thought it was the udder whey round.
I thought you chaps dropped the "u" in colour. And switched the "er" in theatre and centre.

And that is not all !!! You also put month before date in dates. Like 9/11. Wherease everyone else would say "11/9".