A brilliant new discovery!

[wilsonscrazybed]

I've gathered you here to talk about something near and dear to my heart... TECHNOLOGY! For years I was very scared of it, afraid that the on light on my computer was actually an eye that could see me and unsuspectingly upload videos of me wanking to youtube. To this day I cover my computer with a towel if I am going to look at porn on the internet.

But no, I didn't call you here to talk about masturbation. You are reading this because I felt that you are now old enough to know about a little gadget called a "spell checker." It's pretty easy to use. Some people think that a spell checker isn't for them. "I hav purfect splling evar" says little billy unaware that right now a high school English teacher in Ohio just committed suicide because he realized that nothing he did mattered. Let me tell you that even the greatest authors of all time were terrible spellers. Lewis Carol's Jabberwocky was originally titled The Blabbermouth but since spell checkers had not been invented yet his editors let it slide because of the great debt that Carol owed to opium pushers. And if any of you have ever read the works of Shakespeare then you know how many words on each page are misspelled. That guy was a wreck. Luckily you don't need to suffer the same fate. For the lazy and (computer) illiterate amongst us, I have compiled a list of spell checkers.

IE
http://www.iespell.com/

Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

If you have other suggestions, feel free to add them here. Now go install them before I get some sort of brain hernia or something.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

Industry, Science, and Technology!

Big men putting screwdrivers into things! Turning them, and ADJUSTING them!

- J

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

"Grammar is the diffenrence between "Helping your uncle, Jack, off his horse" and "Helping your uncle Jack off his horse""
-unknown

 

[Tango]

To this day I cover my computer with a towel if I am going to look at porn on the internet.

Brilliant!

Also, thank you very much I hate making typos its irritating for me and other forum users.

 

[xMacx]

Oh, the irony.

 

[Hey Joe]

I've gathered you here to talk about...

Your post contains five grammatical mistakes.

Seriously though, I think this a great idea! I also think that anybody making repeated and glaring spelling or grammatical errors should be banned for a day, so they can sit in the corner and think about what they've done to the English language.

 

[Tango]

To this day I cover my computer with a towel if I am going to look at porn on the internet.

Brilliant!

Also, thank you very much I hate making typos its irritating for me and other forum users.

Bugger, just noticed a few typos in my message...

 

[Easykill]

"A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Just a funny grammar thing I found.

 

[defcon 1]

does it check four words that sound the same but mean different things oar is it the same as all the rest? That's wear eye have the most trouble in spell checking

 

[John Galt]

"A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing."

Just a funny grammar thing I found.

Punctuation turns ordinary speach into poetry. Huzzah for the intricacies of english!

 

[Copter400]

I think that a lot of people in my classes use proper English in tests and projects and bugger all punctuation everywhere else. I didn't think it to be possible for one to just not use punctuation at all times.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

Taylor Mali - "The Impotence of Proofreading" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg]

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

does it check four words that mean oar is it the same as all the rest? That's wear eye have the most trouble in spell checking

Point taken. Everyone here needs a spell-checker, and a liberal dose of common sense, and in rare cases an Oxford English dictionary. The irony of this post is that today I am sans spell-checker.

 

[Easykill]

BBQ? I'm not familiar with that one... Hmmm....

 

[cleverlymadeup]

there is a few issues here

1. no child left behind
2. a relaxing on focus on spelling and grammar
3. no child left behind
4. new parents and their precious little snowflakes
5. lack of kids reading and watching tv

on a side note firefox does have a spell checker albeit an american-english one so stuff like colour, neighbour, flavour and so forth aren't picked up correctly. that isn't bad english, it's just an evolution of the language.

now as for the your and you're thing, that's REALLY annoying and i still get nailed with it, tho in my head i always go say "you are" or your to make sure i'm saying the right thing. some of the short form comes not from sms but old irc and bbs days and predates sms msg'n

 

[Kaisharga]

Yeah! Woo! English! Punctuation! Does Japanese have a semicolon? Hell no! Does Korean have a dash? Hell no! ENGLISH FOREVER WOOOO YEAH

 

[Echolocating]

I would go more for a three strikes rule. The first is a one day ban, as in: I r teh greatast tiper evar. One day ban.

I second the motion.

I'd also suggest getting rid of the post count, as most idiots like to post solely for the sake of upping that number. It means nothing to people who contribute thoughtfully to this site... so why have it?

I remember a time when the Escapist was in its infancy and only the obscure (well spoken citizens) contributed. Then some dude named Yahtzee came here and took a big sarcastic shit over everything and the grammatically impaired flies have never left. ;-)

 

[runtheplacered]

Yeah.. I'm not really seeing the big deal. I believe a good use of the phrase "Making a mountain out of a mole hill" could be used here.

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

This wasn't intended to be a bash the "bad grammar people." There's a lot of people here who's native language isn't English. Shall we banish all of them? How about anyone who didn't finish high school? Ban young and underprivileged? All I am saying is that downloading a spell-checker is easy enough that if you don't you're just being lazy.

 

[sammyfreak]

Does anyone know of a good one for Opera, I followed the instructions for the one they recomended but it dident seem to work.

So far I have used an online dictionary when in doubt and OpenOffice for longer posts but a built in spellchecker could be great.