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I have just had to read through a post three times, to try and work out what the poster was on about.
It’s not the first time, it seems to be happening a lot lately.
I'm not sure if it is due to spelling errors or that ghastly text message abbreviation that seems to be generally infecting our beautiful language these days.
Now I realise some people have problems with spelling, I’m no star myself, but if there was a spell check facility on the site it would be a great help not just for the poster but also the readers.
If it is just down to lazy text speak then can I respectfully suggest that if it’s not worth spending a few extra seconds communicating properly, then perhaps it’s not worth communicating at all.... :soapbox:
I could not put it better myself :D
Bisamratte
21-03-2007, 18:07
Firefox has a built in spell checker which is great, it even does German which comes in very handy :rolleyes: :D
funny thing is, it doesn't recognise firefox as a name so must be spelt fire fox :confused:
BorderReiver
21-03-2007, 18:17
Firefox has a built in spell checker which is great, it even does German which comes in very handy :rolleyes: :D
funny thing is, it doesn't recognise firefox as a name so must be spelt fire fox :confused:
IE 7 has got one too.
IE 7 has got one too.
Where? :confused:
I dumped IE7 after it played up and now use Firefox. If you add the Google toolbar, there is a nice spell checker with it :)
PS, there is a nice free 'add on' for Firefox which lets you download video from a lot of sites, including Google, straight to your hard drive
wingstoo
21-03-2007, 18:56
Here is the google search on google tool bar...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2007-11,GGLJ:en-GB&q=google+toolbar
LS
Why not just cut and paste from word. I do it all the time, it’s helpful as it not only checks your spelling, and it also gives you a suitable separation, so you have time to think what you are saying. Reply in haste, repent at your leisure.
Westnorfolk
21-03-2007, 19:29
im dislexic so cant tell if its correct or not :lmao: :lmao:
It is probably due to that awful Text writing:rolleyes: , why do people insist on using it when you can write as much or as little as you want to on here. There is no limit, not that I have reached anyway!
That Text writing is down to the fact that you only have so many available characters on mobile phone messages isn't it? I wouldn't know, I don't own one:D
Spell Chucker would be good :lmao:
Klenchblaize
21-03-2007, 19:39
Why not just cut and paste from word. I do it all the time, it’s helpful as it not only checks your spelling, and it also gives you a suitable separation, so you have time to think what you are saying. Reply in haste, repent at your leisure.
Job done Tadpole.
I have to say, while it is very good, the firefox spell checker doesn't half come up with some funny ideas of what you were trying to say! Still some ironing out needed I think! I believe the new Vbulletins has a spell checker, though it will be a little while before BCUK is upgraded.
Klenchblaize
21-03-2007, 20:08
If you had the misfortune to struggle with the fundamentals of the written word and, when it mattered most, believe me you’ll make the effort to get it right on a forum such as this if you came through that trauma and at any time in your “three score years and ten”. Even your text messages will be word and punctuation perfect – at least in so far as one’s individual true limitations permit. Trust me on this one please because such an affliction is not only the prerogative of footballers who, thanks to the wider acknowledgement of dyslexia (some may call it a simple “wiring fault”), have found they have an all-too handy excuse for what is so often no more than a lack of application.
For many people who struggle with words it is so often no more than the desire to communicate meaningfully in this manner that sets them on the road salvation. Like so much in life you have to want to achieve something before the gates to wider world our finally opened. And regrettably for us all this is not to be found (to societies benefit at least) through the fug of crack cocaine and the like.
Nothing then too heavy for budget day!
Cheers
If I'm writing a long post I use the “Word” cut and paste method but if it's a short post I don't bother very often.
As far as the Firefox spell checker goes I've never quite worked out how to turn it on in my copy, and I don't like Internet Explorer in comparison.
I must confess I can actually tell the difference between someone genuinely challenged by spelling or language and the slovenly practice of text speak.
I suppose I was looking for a gentle way of saying how annoying text vocabulary is when you are trying to read a thread.
I tend to just ignore posts that aren’t clearly legible but that can make following subsequent posts more difficult.
It certainly doesn’t encourage me to reply to someone who can’t be bothered to ask a question properly.
Bisamratte
21-03-2007, 21:32
As far as the Firefox spell checker goes I've never quite worked out how to turn it on in my copy.....
If you right click in the post reply box thing its on the menu there
British Red
21-03-2007, 21:42
I do feel like saying "and I don't like that rock and roll beat combos all the young people like either"..but..I hate txt spk too :D
Pass the younger man and the jump leads :o
Red
To me too much wittling about correctness is too much like work. But when you get posts like this I can't be bothered trying
can neone tell me what tent and knife and mat i should buy and alsowhat sleepingbag and meestin shoud i get what do you think of product x as ive haerd that its quite good but is expensive so i want to know if i can get product z insted and itll still do the same thing ok. thanx lol
Spikey DaPikey
21-03-2007, 23:18
I didnt know there was a spell checker in Firefox, and im still trying to find it !! :o
John Fenna
22-03-2007, 07:54
Yes - let's have a grammar/spell check that is simple to use and will eliminate TXT nonsence.
As a lousy typist with thick fingers and a command of speling that is poor (due to having been educated in Belgium (speaking French in a Flemish area) at both American and British schools and now living in a very Welsh part of Wales) I find my sell cheque invaluable - especially as I earn my living (or part of it) by ryting.
Poor grammer and dpelling/tiping make everitging hard too read.........
Jogn (dammn - cany spill mi one name sum daze!)
British Red
22-03-2007, 08:07
Should we have a forum for "grumpy old bushcrafters"?
:D
I might enjoy that.....---they don't make Vaughan minis like they used to! :)
Red
My Spelling isn't great at all, I use the cut and paste method, unless like Gary it's just short.
I've also got firefox installed and that does help out a bit.
I think there is a level that spelling makes little difference but there’s also the level where it makes a lot of difference, now and then I give up on something because it's hard work trying to get the meaning of what's being said, if we want people to understand and communicate we do need to put some effort into it. Typing in word and then pasting it into here isn't hard at all.
Yes, I could spend the time setting up a spell checker and that's on the cards in the revised site, it's not going to be in the next little while though ;)
Umm, I glad I spell checked this, I had misstyped words all over the place, thoughts are faster than fingers…:D
Silverback
22-03-2007, 10:51
Umm, I glad I spell checked this, I had misstyped words all over the place, thoughts are faster than fingers…:DDo you mean I'M glad I spell checked this :lmao: you did that on purpose didn't you :D
anthonyyy
22-03-2007, 12:31
The odd misspelling doesn’t bother me: I’m not a great speller myself. But a lot of posts here are almost impossible to understand because some posters don’t even make the slightest attempt to write in sentences.
It is particularly annoying when someone posts a question and expects readers to waste their time trying to understand their gibberish.
I took the liberty of translating Wayland’s post.
iv jst hd to rd thro a post three times to try and work out what d poster was on about its not the first time it seems to be happen a lot ltly im not sure if it is due to spln rs or that ghastly txt message abbvns that sms to be gen infecting our beautiful lng ts dz now i realise some pple hav probs with spelln, im no * myself but if there was a spell check facility on the site it would be a great help not just for the poster but also the rdrs if it is just down to lazy text speak then can i respectfully suggest that if it’s not worth spending a few extra seconds comming properly, then perhaps its not worth comming at all.... :soapbox:
mi is from de west indies init, me knows a good speller, she the local voodoo lady, she give you all de good spells you want man init, she even check em first. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Grooveski
22-03-2007, 12:41
At my work there's a computer that controls the messages displayed on the overhead gantrys on the motorway.
Last year when they started displaying the message "R U 2 CLOSE", quite a few folk(myself included) complained that it was, well, the sweary filter here wouldn't let me say what I thought of it.
Pointing out that there were enough letters on the gantry to display "ARE YOU TOO CLOSE" was met with comments that it was a big government safety campaign and that "R U 2 CLOSE" stickers, signs, mugs and all sorts of paraphernalia were being produced as well.
What chance do you stand? :rolleyes:
Wouldn't mind ten minutes logged onto that box. There's definite giggle potential there :p.
"Spell check pleeze ;-)"
sure... "CHEQUE", there you go.
Should we have a forum for "grumpy old bushcrafters"?
:D
Red
I'd b a member 4 sure, I don't c a prob with txt writin really m8. :rolleyes:
Dave ;)
Klenchblaize
22-03-2007, 13:19
I understand that to imitate a poor piano player one must first achieve a certain advanced level of competence! Texter-stileeee type contributors please note!
British Red
22-03-2007, 14:06
"Spell check pleeze ;-)"
sure... "CHEQUE", there you go.
Or perhaps Czech?
;)
Hmmm... :bluThinki .... I do have grumpy bushcrafter days occasionally.
Usually I just pick up my bag and get away from it all for a while.
Unfortunately, the last time I did that, I ended up having to clear up one of my favourite camp sites because some braindead oxygen wasters had taken load of flat pack furniture halfway up a mountain to use as firewood.
Obviously they didn't have the skills needed to burn it completely so they left most of it in a smouldering pile surrounded by beer bottles and cider cans.
I came home a very grumpy bushcrafter........ :rant:
It is probably due to that awful Text writing:rolleyes: , why do people insist on using it when you can write as much or as little as you want to on here. There is no limit, not that I have reached anyway!
That Text writing is down to the fact that you only have so many available characters on mobile phone messages isn't it? I wouldn't know, I don't own one:D
I think that texting is an invention of the devil... I finally cracked and reluctantly learned (as enjoyable as having a tooth pulled without anesthetic) when I realised that I would have to, if I wanted to communicate with my children when they were further away than the next room. At the least they gleefully reply to text rather than grunting: Yeah?? nah...bye..... :D
Ho, and I think a "grumpy old bushcrafter" thread is a very good idea! :D I'll join in...
I’m afraid txt typing is here to stay. It may well be a irritant for the older generation but its only going to become more prevalent. There could be a major social uprising on the issue to stop it in its tracks but I don’t believe its that big a crisis, people can’t even be arsed to vote.
I’ve just used the “spell-check and paste form word” idea, its dead good and if you use the thesaurus you can pretend to be literate.
BorderReiver
22-03-2007, 19:00
Where? :confused:
Mine is on the bar next to the "Tools" button,it is under a couple of chevrons >>.
Regards the Grumpy Old Bushcrafter thread I think I may have started one a while back here (http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=8519&highlight=etiquette) :rant:
British Red
23-03-2007, 00:33
Right I'm going for a look!
British Red
23-03-2007, 00:46
Right I'm going for a look!
Should we have a forum for "grumpy old bushcrafters"?
:D
I might enjoy that.....---they don't make Vaughan minis like they used to! :)
Red
Yes please :You_Rock_
The English language has got simpler over the years anyway, take a song like this
Original Lyrics
Put your left foot in,
Your left foot out,
Your left foot in,
And shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey
And turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
Shakespearean Style
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.
Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke.
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from heaven's yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.
The Hoke, the poke -- banish now thy doubt.
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about.
;) ;)