Hi.
I've found that I also tend to do the proofreading as I write. I'll
usually write a sentence, line or maybe a whole paragraph, then try to
read it carefully to see what I did. I never type with keyboard echo
turned on except on my MBook since it's keyboard is so much smaller I
feel it's a good idea to have constant info on which buttons I'm
hitting, at least for now. I find it less distracting to type on my
computer with no typing echo. Especially since I type so fast I really
don't get to hear what letters I actually hit anyway, except on that
MBook I mentioned earlier.
I think it was Thomas that mentioned colons, semi colons and dashes
being semi acceptable errors. I hope so since I never really use them
myself. Very occasionally I will try to use a dash to add a tidbit onto
the end of a sentence, but I'm not really sure if I'm getting it right
so usually I just find a way to make a new sentence out of it. One thing
I notice a lot is messages where none of the word I's are capitalized. i
think people usually do that when they type on something that speaks
with a speech synthesizer besides Eloquence which doesn't read the word
I differently than the letter i. i really find it difficult to
understand sentences when Eloquence does strange inflections because of
that. I think someone named Ian, please excuse if I'm using the wrong
spelling for the name, who types on his iPhone is doing that a lot. I
understand totally given the extra step to hit the shift key on all the
uppercase letters. I try to take the time to do it myself.
I can legitimately keep this one on topic because truthfully the reason
I replied to your message was because of how I found out I really do
proofread, while I write, rather than doing it, as you say, after the
fact. Hmm think I used too many commas there. Anyway, when I play Alter
Aeon, I use Monkey Term as my mud client of choice. Well, it doesn't do
this on any other computer, or for any other players who use it- at
least as far as I know, but when I do say line with JAWS to read my
command before I hit enter to send it in, my carrot gets moved to the
beginning of the line. That stinks because often I will read what I've
got so far, then add a few more things onto the end, oops, beginning or
perhaps somewhere in the middle, but certainly not the end, of the
sentence. I've never seen that happen any where else but goodness it's
annoying. Here I am typing a command, and I want to check what I have so
far before I type too much to be able to read the beginning of the
command, but that means when I type again my remaining part of the
command gets put on the beginning. *ouch!*
Oh, That reminds me. Those of you who'd like practice typing, and want
to have fun while practicing, I suggest playing a mud like Alter Aeon.
You have to type a lot to play, and if you socialize you'll be typing
that much more. You'll eventually become faster too.
You know, I just realized after I wrote that that there really aren't
that many poor typers on there. Plenty of spelling errors and silly
screw ups do to going too fast but the punctuation usually goes in some
semblance of the right place. You should have heard me on my MBook
earlier though. I was having a bad time of it, and trying to hurry to
boot. I typed something to my clannies and hit enter. I swear I have no
idea what I tried to write. It was only three words but I have no clue
what those words were supposed to be- none of them were words I ever
heard. Typos are funny to me as long as they don't get seen by the wrong
people. I've managed to make the most amazing sounds by accident before.
I use that Tiny Spell program someone mentioned on here earlier myself.
Mostly I use it to try and make sure I don't mutilate anything when I'm
writing room descriptions and stuff like that for Cyber Assault, where
I'm a builder. Everybody simply has to know I write emails with
Thunderbird given my persistent signature. I keep the option to spell
check messages before sending turned on. When I hit ctrl+enter to send,
I land in the spellchecker- assuming I made any typos that is, and I
either go through the process of a good spell check or just hit alt+s to
go ahead and send it.
I saw some flaming going on regarding this subject. It was funny though
that the flaming was all from people who didn't really take part in the
discussion in any other way. Speaking of the discussion, it was a good
one. I feel it was conducted in an unusually mature manner. I hope this
kind of attitude remains apparent in the future when the list starts
gnawing on a new subject with an ever lengthening thread.
And that's that, another one of my long messages. Why do I always start
writing whoppers at 2 in the morning.
Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.14 portable.
On 12/18/2011 10:14 AM, Clement Chou wrote:
While I don't disagree, it should be simple courtesy to check an email
as you go for maximum intelligibility. I don't necessarily think that
spellchecking has to be done after the fact... I myself proofread as I
go, to ensure my grammar and spelling are up to scratch. It just makes
life easier, and makes me more presentable at the same time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben" <gamehead...@aol.co.uk>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Gamers Being Taken Seriously?
I completely concure on the points suggested, such as putting
proofreading
elements in the guidelines. However, I think we are all probably taking
this a little too far, although I could be wrong. I just don't want
people
posting to the list and having to check several things, and thus getting
borred of doing this every time they have to send a message.
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