Does correct spelling really matter (Page 3): Sounds like a plan. Lol...

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

bwana wrote:

When I see a thread/post with spelling errors I automatically discount anything the individual says. Sort of like Nigerian SPAM e-mails I receive with obvious spelling errors and terrible grammar!

bwa

Sounds like a plan. Lol

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Longshadow wrote:

I believe no one is making fun of dyslexia. More directed at people who don't learn, don't care to learn, don't think it is important to learn. Medical anomalies excepted. Even though some of the side effects may be similar.

I do alot of misspelling in the attic. It sure gets them fired up. Lol

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

dirtpusher wrote:

I do alot of misspelling in the attic. It sure gets them fired up. Lol

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

G Brown wrote:

In English, spelling as well as meaning changes wi... (show quote)

The "smell"* checker is just below the mid point between your eyes.

*spelling does count, and so do typing (keyboarding to some) skills

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

dirtpusher wrote:

When you removing the dirt. Between point a an b. It is an imaginary line between the two as to when you know to quit. You just have to picture it in your head as to what it suppose look like when your done. What machines has he been on.

I would have to ask him to make sure but since Team Rubicon is a volunteer disaster response team made up of mostly veterans and they do everything from floods to brush fires it is a variety. Because of the fires and wet lands work they do in California it is probably heavy on the dozers, skip loaders and back hoes.
He and our daughter got deployed to Houston after Harvey. She got to help cleanup and get a retirement home back in business. But he went in right on the tail end of the storm and being a former combat engineer he got teamed with a Corps of Engineer's Colonel to survey, map and plan for the relief crews who followed. He was a bit upset, he had wanted to actually do things and operate stuff. Sort of like his tour in Iraq, he complained that the senior NCOs and Officers hogged most of the fun jobs. I read that as blowing stuff up.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

There is a sort of spell checker on UHH. Type in a word obviously wrong and you get a red wavy line under it. This line doesn't show in the final copy posted. For example UHH, not being a "real" word, has a red wavy line under it. And if you forget to put a space between words it will usually pick that up too. Note that it is an American spell check not the rest of the world :-)

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

robertjerl wrote:

I would have to ask him to make sure but since Tea... (show quote)

Sounds bout normal hoggin the good stuff.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

The above only works for those people who have, at one time or another, been taught to read properly.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

chrissybabe wrote:

There is a sort of spell checker on UHH. Type in a word obviously wrong and you get a red wavy line under it. This line doesn't show in the final copy posted. For example UHH, not being a "real" word, has a red wavy line under it. And if you forget to put a space between words it will usually pick that up too. Note that it is an American spell check not the rest of the world :-)

I believe the spell checker is in your browser, not at UHH.
Firefox uses a file called persdict.dat stored in the user's appdata directory. This is in addition to its standard dictionary. You can add words to your personal dictionary by right mouse clicking on the misspelled word. Firefox puts wavy red lines under misspelled words.
Maybe Chrome has a dictionary also.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dirtpusher wrote:

Cambridge University Says Spelling Does Not Matter?

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

That depends on how you define "matters." Can you still get the meaning from a line of misspelled words? Yes, you can. How would Cambridge react to an applicant who wrote sentences full of misspellings?

Dannj

Well, f wi ddnt no hau 2 spl wi woodent hv bin abl to rspnd tu yr msige, wud wi?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

jerryc41 wrote:

That depends on how you define "matters." Can you still get the meaning from a line of misspelled words? Yes, you can. How would Cambridge react to an applicant who wrote sentences full of misspellings?

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

It's true that when we read a piece of text we are so familiar with the words that we can understand what's written if the first and last letters are correct. However, that definitely does not mean that correct spelling doesn't matter. I'm a writer and sloppy spelling drives me nuts!

dirtpusher wrote:

Cambridge University Says Spelling Does Not Matter?

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

My spell checker works in UHH and I use it all the time. And it's lens not lense, and "I need advice" not advise.

Longshadow wrote:

I don't think there is one on UHH.
The spell checker might be in your browser (It is in Firefox.).

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Misspelling must be common thing to have a spellchecker