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 #2 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 20:52 pm Spell checker on the forum |
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Hi Tom. As of now we don't have a spell check feature at our forum but it's on the list of things we want to add with the next upgrade.
In the meantime you can use an external program such as EditPlus or even Microsoft Word. Just create your text, spell check it and then copy and paste it into the forum. |
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 20:59 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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Nice to 'see' you, Slava! :D
I think in four months (that seem like ages) this is the first time you ever answered my query.
By the way, how do you do?
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Aug 23, 2006 21:50 pm Forum questions |
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| Tom, most of the time I have to concentrate on programming. If only one character in the code is incorrect the entire system may not run correctly. That's why I have answered so few questions on the forum. In the next months this might change and maybe I will have to more time to talk with you here... |
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Aug 24, 2006 19:51 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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| Are you guys a twin brothers |
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Aug 24, 2006 20:41 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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You do ask some unique questions, nami... :lol:
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:14 pm Spell checker on the forum |
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| Slava wrote: |
| Hi Tom. As of now we don't have a spell check feature at our forum but it's on the list of things we want to add with the next upgrade. |
Do me a favor and don't add it. I don't want to use UK spelling in my posts, and I'm sure many Canadians won't want to use US or UK spelling. In fact, the Canadians probably won't be able to spellcheck correctly, because most companies -- particularly Micro$oft -- don't have a Canadian spellcheck dictionary. This causes problems for some people, but the companies don't care. |
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Aug 25, 2006 18:47 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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Jamie, I still believe that a word spelt according to UK or US standards is better than a word spelt according to no standards at all.Please see below:
1- Colours
2- Colors
3- Colros :shock:
And, needless to say, you are a fast typist! I am pretty sure you can type without looking at the keyboard, am I wrong, Jamie?
Any slow and inexperienced typist like me would like his/ her incorrectly spelt words to be underlined automatically so that he/ she can correct them.
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| #9 (permalink) Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:23 am But, please, don't add automatic CORRECTION! |
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I do lots of spelling mistakes in English.
But it’s a language learning forum... and I prefer to have a feedback from people.
I also know well that when/if software 'check-and-correct(s)' spelling mistakes automatically, you (a learner, - nothing personal) might not recognize some of his/her typical spelling errors, ever.
And – so - never learn correct spelling…
More pleasant and comfortable, of course, but not the best, generally…
I wouldn't not use such a function here, even if it be optional.
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| #10 (permalink) Sat Aug 26, 2006 12:39 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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I agree with Tamara. In fact, I specifically tell my students not to use spell check programs when they're doing homework assignments.
Amy (the teaching tyrant ;))
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| #11 (permalink) Sat Aug 26, 2006 13:01 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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Here is one of the classic paragraphs to show why spellchecking is no good unless you know how to spell.
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| They're know miss steaks in this newsletter cause we used special soft wear witch cheques you're spelling. It is mower or lass a weigh to verify. How ever it can knot correct arrows in punctuation ore usage: an it will not fined words witch are miss used butt spelled rite. Four example; a paragraph cud half mini flaws but wood bee past by the spill checker. And it wont catch the sent tense fragment which you. Their fore, the massage is that proofreading is knot eliminated, it is still berry much reek wired. There are no mistakes in this newsletter because we used special software which checks our spelling. It is more or less a way to verify. However, it cannot correct errors in punctuation or usage, and it will not find words which are misused but spelled correctly. For example, a paragraph could have many flaws but would be passed by the spell checker. And it won't catch the sentence fragment which you write. Therefore, the message is that proofreading is not eliminated. It is still very much required. |
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| #12 (permalink) Sat Aug 26, 2006 13:05 pm Spell checker on the forum |
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You are right in saying that a software spell checker can't teach you correct spelling but it can do a great job in eliminating typos. I always run my messages through a spell checker when I compose an email. Here on the forum I use Babylon to make sure my texts don't contain any spelling errors.
By the way, a lot of forum users have difficulties with their punctuation and a spell checker usually doesn't recognize all those little things. I believe that you yourself should be your best spell checker.
Practice how to type correctly and your written communication skills will improve too.
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| #13 (permalink) Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:48 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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Hello everybody! If you really want a good online spell checker that also works here on the forum you should install and use Firefox 2. It has the best spell checker I have seen so far.
Try it out, it works great!
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| #14 (permalink) Fri Dec 15, 2006 21:25 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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| Hi friends! Hi Torsten. Before 10 minuts, I install in my compjuter fire fox 2, you recommended me , and I see this new things, in my page, and I liked, but, I can to post in forum, because , any think is wrong with my import from microsoft before and this new, . Now, I return again in my home page , had before, because , I don`t have idea, what`s happen, or what I to make for to see every time my spell chek in my page, because in my inbox I have.Sorry, maybe I don`t to tell you right , actually, but, maybe you given me any idea,and helped me. Thank you for your time. Sincerely Bora. |
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| #15 (permalink) Fri Dec 15, 2006 22:21 pm Spell check in the forum! |
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| Hi again friends. maybe , now everythink fixed in my compjuter, I just to trying, how working. thank you. |
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