SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

Otherwise known as the spel cheker poem


I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

Cornishpete Loc: Illinois

Brilliant MisterWilson! I'm saving it for future use.
Thanks!

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

Because the proper single space between a sentence-ending period, and the initial opening letter of the next word at the beginning of a sentence is often not enough visual separation. It's why we went to initial caps in the first place. Not using them is simply a question of laziness. Unless you're e.e.cummings, in which case you're excused.

I've resisted suggesting grammar and usage corrections on this site since Day 1, because many people get offended if you correct them. This, I believe, is an offshoot of the somewhat recent teaching guideline in many public schools of "every child is a genius", and to de-emphasize correct spelling and grammar in favor of maintaining self-esteem and 'creativity'.

Yes, language is an evolving craft. Yes, new words come into usage every day. Yes, most people are familiar with and comfortable decoding "ROFL" and "LOL" and such. But as the original poster noted, composing long-form posts and replies in a forum such as this is not the same as texting on an iPhone screen or tweeting 41 characters or less.

Clarity is always useful. I've seen people get very offended at a post in reply to one of theirs, because the reply misinterpreted the original due to unclear grammar and misspelling.

And if you think capitalization doesn't matter, I offer an illustrative example:

I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.

LittleRedFish Loc: Naw'lens (New Orleans)

Sme peopal r dsylexit, ya no. they hav to louk up all most everie word. taht gets triyring.

:lol: So let th morral be "done't be a english polices" it's not a forum for landgage. Its about photography. this ain't english class.

LittleRedFish Loc: Naw'lens (New Orleans)

I have to save this. I don't have spell check on my computer, but I've got it on my iphone.

My husband is going to love it.

:D

Just Tami Loc: Long Island

My pet peeve is chewing with your mouth open, hate it.

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

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SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

:lol:

PalePictures Loc: Traveling

Looks like I'm going to have to hire an editor.

jenny Loc: in hiding:)

Yeah! And to add to all that.how about "bring" vs.
"take".You take something with you when you go somewhere. When you're there you'll be fortunate if
someone remembered to bring something you forgot
to take.

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

I brung the stuff you done forgut to have tooken.

jenny Loc: in hiding:)

Zaroba & arphot...what in the world is your native
language?? All i was saying is if it's English you
should know how to speak English.....

jenny Loc: in hiding:)

Zaroba & arphot...what in the world is your native
language?? All i was saying is if it's English you
should know how to speak English.....

Dave K

With all due respect, a message's being readable is in the eye of the writer. Your entry here doesn't meet my criteria, as a reader, of readability; hence, your message was a waste of your time. We use capitalization, grammar (spelled just as I wrote it), spelling, and punctuation for one reason: to communicate with our fellows. Anything that makes our message difficult, if not impossible, for the reader to understand serves only to make that communication worthless.

I do know about the research you mentioned and it's cute, albeit meaningless. So our eyes can figure it out. So what? The message itself - the entire reason for writing anything - is lost in our trying to decipher the writer's "creative spelling" or lack of proofreading.

Just my opinion on the matter. If you're going to tell me something, have the courtesy to write it so that I can read it. :x

Dave K

Oops. Posted this twice. My apologies. :oops: