David Hobby wrote: > > Julia Thompson wrote: > ... > > > The "Speling Simplifikashun Ak of 2004" was pasd by kongres and synd by > > > President-for-life Bush right after the kansilashun of the elekshunz. > > > > ... > > > In keeping with that spirit, this community is fairly relaxed about > > > spelling errors. In fact, it may be the /only/ thing we're relaxed > > > about. Try mentioning religion in a positive sense and see what I mean :-). > > > > You mean I've wasted maybe as much as 20 minutes so far this year > > consulting the dictionary? :) > > > > Julia > > I'm with you there, Julia. I do enough writing where the output > must be good that I have to keep working on my spelling. After > awhile, it's hard to stop!
Actually, this is one of the only places I really worry about it. There's another mailing list on which I try to be careful, as well. I'm not sure when I'll next be writing stuff for a more formal audience. Maybe it's good to stay in practice for that? > Spellcheck makes it easier, but won still has two check four > homophones... > ---David > > Who confesses to not reading posts with bad spelling/grammar. I read them, but ones with bad spelling take me significantly longer, and if one is too long, or there are too many of them, I start getting a headache. Bad grammar doesn't bother me as badly, as long as it's reasonably consistent. I don't use spellcheckers, except ones that call the misspellings to my attention as I'm typing. I caught one yesterday that way. Dealing with a dictionary is easier than customizing a spell checker to recognize words it doesn't already have, at least for me. Julia
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