A plea for netiquette

This site definitely needs a spell check. Most of my entries are late at
night, next day when I read some of my posts and see the typos I am
horrified (I am carefully checking this one for spelling mistakes)

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I agree Mikefule. As long as we all understand what has been written, I
don't think a couple of spelling mistakes matter. I've always been
hopeless with spelling and would certainly lose some of my enjoyment of
posting if I felt that people were 'getting at' my spelling.

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speling - dount no wat yur tauking bout. 😉

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Roadkill, dont you mean:

Spelling? Don't know what your talking about...

:p

Sorry 🙁

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<3 Mac OS X for having universal (heh) spell check.

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<3 Mac OS X for having universal (heh) spell check.
or:
I love the OS X operating system for having a spell checker that works
with most of the programs installed on my computer.

Anyway, your plea for netiquette is in vain.

There are always "grammar Nazis" correcting other people.
There are always guys like you attempting to correct the "grammar
Nazis."
Moreover, there's always a guy like me explaining that there will always
be "grammar Nazis" and their "haterz."

(There are more characters, like the guy that points out that both sides
are "wasting bandwidth" . . .
. . and still more people that point out that bandwidth is not a
concern . . .
. . AND that it wastes more bandwidth to criticize wasting
bandwidth.)

It is the culture of a forum.
You can accept by your silence, or you can accept it by being one of the
characters outlined above.

The bottom line:
Nothing will change.

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onebyone said:

*This site definitely needs a spell check. Most of my entries are late
at night, next day when I read some of my posts and see the typos I am
horrified (I am carefully checking this one for spelling mistakes) *

There are spelling checkers available for both IE and Firefox.
'ieSpell for IE' (http://www.iespell.com/)
'SpellBound for Firefox and Mozilla'
(http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/)

For the most part posts here are informal communication. For the most
part the posts here are not the things that you would proofread several
times to make sure there are no errors then sent off to another person
to check. That level of checking would be inappropriate and a waste of
time. However, a basic attempt at spelling, grammar and content is
appreciated. I know I have have gotten words like "loose" and "lose" or
"break" and "brake" mixed up at times. A spell checker isn't going to
catch mistakes like those.

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I agree that we don't need to correct spelling or grammatical errors in
another member's post. If the meaning is not understood a simple
question will usually solve the issue.

But, before posting - why not make life easy on everyone and use an
existing program ( such as Word, or even Outlook Express) to formulate
and spell-check your messages? After that, just cut-and-paste into a
thread...

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I taught myself Quantum physics, but I couldn't spell if my life
depended on it ^^. But I'll use open office, to spell check my documents
if its a very relevent post. Where spelling/grammer could make a
substantial diffrence.

I"m just glad you guys can't see my handwriting.....

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DustinMichels said:

Roadkill, dont you mean:

Spelling? Don't know what your talking about...

Huh huh. And then you overlooked your => you're

Oh, and dont should be don't

I never criticise people's spelling on this forum (I think) unless
they somehow incorrectly 'claim' to spell correctly. All in good fun
though.

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Mikefule said:

*It was a plea for a reasonable attempt at good manners in this public
space. *

I don't get it. Do you mean:
"It was a *reasonable* plea which attempted to get people to use good
manners." ?

(There's a difference, and I understand the modified statement).

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Very droll.

It was a plea for people to make a reasonable attempt to display good
manners. This is a forum, with people from many backgrounds and age
groups, and a certain amount of cut and thrust is only to be expected.
I'm too old to expect perfection.

I was particularly annoyed when one member's first ever post was
attacked, not only for its content, but also for the spelling. That was
not the only example, but it stuck in my mind.

For myself, I think I can hold my own in any company when it comes to
disputes about spelling, grammar or punctuation. However, I would hate
to see people discouraged from posting because they were afraid that
their spelling (etc.) might be held up to ridicule.

The very fact that I felt that the plea was necessary made me fear I'd
be urinating upwind, but I thought I'd give it a go.

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onebyone - Alian is spelled a l i e n !

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I definitely agree. there will frequently be a degree of inaccuracy, be
it through bad luck (typing ability/knowledge/dyslexia) or sloppiness.
My bugbear is the laziness of not checking over one's posts or bothering
to correct blatant errors. A well written post can be very pleasing to
read indeed. There have been some posts (gladly very few) where, had I
been keen on the topic, I would have needed to ask for a translation.

As for using errors to make fun of people, thats pre-teen playground
tactics. I'm sure there will always be a few who use this. may their
minority decrease greatly.

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Thanks John_Childs. Not only can I learn new unicycle stuff, I can also
read and learn new computer stuff. I have downloaded the IE spell
checker and will now give it a go. I will have to learn some new skills
on the uni to keep up with myself.

Cheers

Yep it werks. wourw!

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No, I have checked this a thousand times. I am sure it doesn't have a
hyphen

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onebyone said:

*No, I have checked this a thousand times. I am sure it doesn't have a
hyphen *

Ah, well, if that's the case, then I defer.

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Both my wife, Mary, and my son, Ben, have an hereditary condition known
as dysgraphia. Dysgraphia affects the translation of words onto paper
and tends to make spelling difficult. For some reason, it also affects
the ability to write neatly. But both Ben and Mary are highly
intelligent. Ben's standardized test scores are off the charts (I know,
there's been some discussion about that subject, too). But
unfortunately, it's too easy for some to pass bad judgement on folks who
display bad grammar, spelling or handwriting skills.

I did come down on one of our brethern once upon a time for spelling and
grammatical errors when he attempted to call me lazy for having a few
extra pounds on my frame.
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yoopers said:

*to pass bad judgement*

Tsk, Bruce. Your use of the word "bad" is totally and completely
redundant. The phrase "to pass judgement" implies censure making the
word "bad" entirely unneeded and utterly unnecessary.

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