Hi, One best way to get rid of spelling mistakes is to use Tiny Spell software. Once you install this, as soon as we type a spelling wrongly, there will be a beep and as you press down arrow, a list of nearest correct spellings is displayed. Press enter on the word you want to substitute for the wrongly spelt word and you can go ahead.
Importantly, it's a free software, and you can get a link to download the same by googling. Another way to improve the grammar is to read mails written by experts on this list. That's how I have learnt writing mails. Regards, Vamshi G M: +91 9949349497 R: +91 877 2243861 Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org >From darkness unto light -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Subramani L Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 4:56 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Care for spellings in postings - a request The criteria is not if one has studied in English medium or have learnt English through and through at school. I have seen this in some blogs and other platforms where the so-called learned folks share information. Even there, I found plenty of mistakes and very obvious grammatical errors. I wish I am able to share a few examples, because recently I read an article written by an "AUTHOR" (and, of all the things, she is an American) which was full of errors... so much that it was hard to believe that the person who actually wrote it was an author. Imagine someone who is making a living out of writing putting out messages like that? The root cause of poorly written mails in my opinion is lack of care. People do not understand that their writing says something about them and it definitely has an impact on other people and they have a responsibility to write in an intelligible, clear way. I list the following points which people may like to take into account while writing: 1. Avoid SMS language. SMS language has had a negative influence on people, particularly on youngsters. Believe me, how much ever you try and simplify your writing in terms of shortening words and using alphanumeric, writing, as a process, is essentially different from speaking and you do not have the necessary expertise to use one for the other. So when writing, whether through a mobile phone or twitter/facebook, treat it as a writing task. 2. Read sites like BBC, which uses simple sentences to convey the news. If you read it for a long time, it has an influence on the way you write. If you need help in honing your language skills, you can switch to learning English or other specific sites in BBC, which provide both audio and text information for practice. 3. Never send a message without reading it at least once. I am having a terrible time with the keyboard I am using to type this message (and so many other things like filing my stories) since it doesn't type A with a single touch. I have to hit the key several times to get it typed, but I do it since I don't want my messages to appear bad (still you may find a word or two with a missing A, but that is after I try my best). Take pride in the fact that you are amongst the privileged few in this country to use things like computers and emails to communicate and so have to show you actually do what it takes to use them. 4. Your writing is a part of your personality. You wouldn't like to attend a party wearing an awful dress, dirty and dishevelled. So why should you write badly and show that you are after all not someone who people like to meet in person? You indeed raise your stakes (expectations) higher if you write well. So put in that effort. If you think you can't, learn. Subramani -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of prateek aggarwal Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 10:14 PM To: accessindia Subject: Re: [AI] Care for spellings in postings - a request Agreed. I too have observed a few mails with major errors in spellings. While we are using screen readers, we don't usually read the word letter by letter, hence our focus does not go to the spelling of a word. Yes, I fully understand that many of you folks haven't got chance of doing studies in English medium schools, and that's not at all a problem, neither that is any criteria of judging your capabilities. In fact, a lot of you folks are scholars and experts in your respective areas, and I'm proud for that. Sometimes, incorrect spellings or grammar makes your e-mail ineffective to an extent that the intended recipient does not notice it that warmly, hence you remain destitute from the right answer which you would have got if the spellings were all correct. Moreover, the fact described by vasu bro about the appearance of search results by search queries is also one of the major factors. Considering this, I request all the learned fellows without any preference of name that please try checking the spelling of the word you are writing here, it only takes a bit. In fact, a better approach is to write the e-mail in Microsoft word first, and run the spelling and grammar check. Of course, the spelling and grammar check is not the best solution and it won't point all the mistakes, neither the suggested things by it are all perfect, yet you can get an idea and decide what to correct. An other important thing that I'd like to suggest is to read whatever you have written with the help of your screen reader. Many times, your screen reader will pronounce a word in strange way if its spelling is not correct. This will let you know that there's some problem with the spelling of that respective word, which you can correct then. I have been thinking to write spellings of some of the most commonly used words so the chances of collision can be reduced down. Based on your suggestions, I may start a series somewhere either here or on my website about the spellings of some very commonly used words. Response awaited. regards, Prateek agarwal. Skype: Prateek_agarwal32 Wanna see inside me? My blog is the telescope: http://www.myfriendprateek.blogspot.com website: http://www.prateekagarwal.webs.com the best way to accomplish your softwares/websites development needs. You tell, I'll build. ---------- Original message ---------- From: "Srinivasu Chakravarthula" <sriniv...@srinivasu.org> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:54 +0530 Subject: [AI] Care for spellings in postings - a request Dear all, Off late, there are several emails with lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. I do understand some of you may not got opportunity to study in English medium school and I'm one of them and that would be one of the possible reasons for spelling mistakes in emails and I don't mistake any of you. At the same time, please understand that postings of Access India are archived and easily available for people to come across the content through search engines and useful information posted by you would not come up in the search engines unless your content matches to the spelling that a researcher is looking for. So it would be a biggest disadvantage for us, if our content do not have correct spellings and grammar. To make your postings better, may I please suggest a couple of things, although I am aware, this would be a little more additional effort: 1. If you are using Microsoft Outlook / outlook express, be sure to do a spell check by pressing F7 (not sure for outlook express) 2. If you compose emails using webmail and use Mozilla Firefox, most often it notify you about spelling errors and by using the applications key, you can access the suggestions and use the correct spelling. 3. This suggestion would really be an additional effort, but you can try; if you are using webmail, may be, draft your email using Word Processor and run the spell check, then copy the same and paste to your compose box in web mail. Hope this would be of help to someone. No offense please. Best regards, Srinivasu Chakravarthula Hand phone: +91-990-081-0881 Website: http://www.srinivasu.org Yahoo! 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