Speell Chacking
 

Does anyone know if you can spell check your posts before posting ... maybe Fodors can add that feature to the board...would help me!!

Type your reply on Word.
Do spell check there.
Cut and paste to your "post a reply" space.

That's it!

DON'T DELETE THIS BECAUSE IT LOOKS WEIRD. BELIEVE IT OR NOT YOU CAN READ IT.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind: aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Such a cdonition is arppoiately cllaed Typoglycemia.

Amzanig huh? Yaeh and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

Robyn :)>-

Yup, you can read it, but have you ever seen how quickly spelling errors are picked up and commented on here?

>This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.<

I must disagree.

I can understand what you have written because I look at each letter in a grouping and then try to create a pattern that is congruent to a previous pattern of a known word.

Sort of like playing Scrabble.

>and yuo awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.<

The fact that I am capable of making sense out of gibberish doesn't mean that you are relieved of the responsibility of not writing gibberish to begin with.

Whit da yie nike of thus singins?

((I))

This board has a spell checker. Just type your message, post it and within 5 minutes your message will receive a reply pointing out all your spelling errors. Works great!

Larry J

Larry, LOL!

PLEASE, don't kill the messenger...

I humbly apologize for not clarifying the origination of my first post on this thread. I cut & pasted the entire post (sans Robyn :)>- ) from an e-mail I had received last night. When I saw the title of the thread, I immediately thought of the e-mail, and thought it would be an interesting little ditty to share, especially since it is April Fool's Day. It was meant in a light-hearted manner.

In no way do I think that proper spelling is unimportant. Peace.

Robyn :)>-

Hey Robyn,

No need to apologize.

The item you posted has been around for some time.

Besides, we need something to get our blood flowing. :)

((I))

artstuff-
I thought your post was interesting!

Larry? You're on the money!

Larry,

You've made my day!! roflol!!

Too cool!

i'll add my LOL to larry's post too!
- nutella (recent victim of the fodors spell checker :)

Good one, Larry!!

Very funny Larry! Thanks!

Yes, I get many replies :)

I also think it's important to spell correctly but I would never correct anyone on their spelling. Except for my husband that is.

Robbyn

4totravel: Composing and spell checking in Word is fine, but do be aware that there are some signs and symbols that come out totally wrong when you put them into the "Post a reply" box.

Therefore, unfortunately, you also have to use the "Preview my reply" option before posting.

What one doesn't have to go through in order not to incur the wrath of the Fodor's spelling police...

Eloise, you can make Word documents come out right on Fodor's by turning off Autocorrect, I believe.

Robyn that was so neat. I could not believe it was that easy to read. Larry, I have noticed how that spell checker works. I am determined not to let it stop me from posting. I can hardly type, and am not the greatest in spelling.

I always thought I had a chronic case of typoglycemia. It's low blood sugar that causes my brain and fingers to work out of sync....I am sure of it. I tried that excuse in college. They did not "buy" it.

To DSM22

When I was a kid I could spell anything. Now that I'm old I've developed the dreaded CRS disease. It's a memory loss syndrone but then if you are over 55 you know all about it or you soon will.

Larry J

My Grandfather a few years ago scared the bejeebers out of me. He told me that he just came home from the doctors. When I asked him how his appointment went he said, "Not so good."

"Why? Are you okay?" I sputtered.

He replied, "I was diagnosed with CRS honey, there is nothing that they can do."

Fighting back tears, I asked, "What is CRS, gramps?"

He replied, "Can't Remember S@!T"

I wanted to kill him.

True story!!

I figure this slowed me down on comprehension about 30%. There is some merit to that study.

But then, we all receive emails at work like that, don't we?

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mind: aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I've not seen any forums with a spellchecker...seems like it would slow things down even more if it were added.

>I always thought I had a chronic case of typoglycemia. <

Bravo, dsm.

((I))

How come people who don't think correct spelling and grammar are not important get huffy when you mispronounce their names?

((I))

the only problem with using Word first (which I do when writing longer reports b/c I like to save them on my hard drive) is that a cut and paste here tends to turn the apostrophes into ? and sometimes the - into ?

it's a pain in the tuckus, but if you want to keep a document for yourself I like that better than typing it into this little screen then cutting and pasting it to Word - you can see what you wrote more easily as you are writing it.

Flygirl, see my earlier reply to Eloise. Try turning off autocorrect in Word before writing the report to copy here. There is actually a more complicated procedure which Indytravel explained to me a year ago that doesn't involve turning off all of autocorrect, but I don't remember the details. Since I've done this, I can copy from Word with no renegade apostrophes.

If you change the format to "Text only" it works.

Nikki, whoops, you're right. I tend to read the first few replies then just plunge right in. thanks!

I don't even know where those are.

Thank you ira, I think I am blushing.


You touched on something I have wondered about for a long time. Especially in this day and age where no one spells their names the way they used to. How are you supposed to know how to pronounce some of these names??

Never mind the challenge of spelling them the creative way that the doting new parental units have decided to.

I want to know if they know how much their poor kids are going to get picked on?

Artstuff, that was fascinating.

I note, though, that the 'rseerach' team seems to have scrambled the order only of words that were otherwise spelt correctly with respect to letter content. This is significant since a lot of spelling/typo errors involve content changes such as letter substitutions, or the addition of letters where none are required. (I'd even venture to say the majority of errors are content errors, notwithstanding the common breakage of the i-before-e-except-after-c rule.)

Wood the acefft be smililir if one lsoot the cnotnnet as whlel as the odrir?

And which 4totravel posted this??

LOL Scarlett, I think that 4totravel would not know which one they are, so how could we?