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I was just wondering. I have auto-spell check on my MacBook, but I don't have horrible spelling in the first place anyway. (Don't lie!)

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MIE AWESUMELY INTELIGENTS SPELUN BRAINZ, DATZ WUTT.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

I have good spelling, but as most here know, I'm a sucker for typos (My old posts confuse me) so I use Firefox's spell check to fix those.

Yeah, that's me right there too. Thank goodness for the Firefox spell checker.

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I'm just a good spellist and grammarist.

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Google: The Ultimate Spell Checker.


I spell check everything.

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Are you also a wordsmith?

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

I generally have promo excellante spelling.

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I've got pretty good spelling - but the Firefox spell checker is a dream.

My spelling is pretty good, and I use a spell checker for the really difficult words. Like some word I can't remember at the moment. I can never remember how to spell that. Whatever it is. Maybe I've purged it from my vocabulary because I can't spell it.

My grammar, on the other hand...





I seem to have a problem with editing sentences.

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

Yes.
Thanks for noticing.

TP.
Toast paint, not toilet paper.

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We actually had to learn spelling in school when I was a kid. By this, I mean that we actually had "Spelling" class. Our spelling skills were tested in every class, though. Teachers didn't accept misspellings. Seriously, misspelling a word meant that you lost a lot of points on a paper and, if you misspelled enough words or misspelled one badly enough, you had to write the word out something like 50 times. Oh, you might not have known how to spell the word before you wrote the paper, but you certainly knew how afterwards.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Why are there 2 votes on spell check, including mine, yet a lot of awesomenessors? Did you guys just want to be awesome? *Tsks you.*

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I spell fine, but I type terrible. Thus on the internet, I look like I can't spell. So anytime I can, I use spellcheck as a crutch.

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I could use some salve.

I wish it was like that now... I hate that so many people in my grade can't spell or figure out if it's there, they're or their.
I don't have spellcheck. I don't know where to get one. I just look over my posts really carefully before I post them. And I read a lot of books when I was younger, so I've never been retarded with my spelling or anything.

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NOT A SIGNATURE!

My spelling skills are pwnsome enough to tell you that the "ye" that you have in the title there is actually pronounced "the," since back in the days when they used "ye" to mean "the," it was because the language they were coming from had a symbol for the "th" sound that resembled a thorn, and the letter "y" was the closest-looking symbol to that letter, hence its usage.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

That's history skills.

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NOT A SIGNATURE!

More etymology skills, which is part of language, in which spelling is also key.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Well, it's still history, right? History of language?

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NOT A SIGNATURE!

Who wants to be awesome when you can be awesome, like me?

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We had those classes too. But I think they got rid of them not long after I left the elementary school. I feel sorry for the younger, less educated kids.

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I learned to spell in school and I won the provincial spelling bee in grade 7. But I typo a lot because I'm a hunt-and-peck typer.

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I think I have good spelling, I try to check when I'm not sure. I know I don't have good grammar, I over-use commas and stuff.

I naturally have some very good spelling skills. Sometimes, however, I can't spell a word, so I'll open up Word and try to get it correctly. My current version of Firefox doesn't have spellcheck. Not that I want it.

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They were debating canceling spelling classes in the local schools when I was in 7th or 8th grade, and eventually did stop teaching them. The most popular reason given at the meeting when they actually voted: Spelling classes were unfair to students who can't spell. I kid you not!

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

I'm a hunt-and-peck type, too, but I think "normal" typists still make a lot of errors. Anyway, I can just spell pretty well. But I never read over my posts unless I notice a glaringly bad error, so plenty still slips by.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

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Wow. Just wow. That's the whole point of the class! To teach them to spell. I honestly wonder how schools can be so stupid sometimes...

Umm, is that not the freakin' point? If they can't learn to spell in spelling class, where else are they going to learn?
We had 'spelling class' too. Depending on our ability, the class used the same list and some students had more words to spell than the others.
Eg, of the list, some students spelled 14 words. If they got them all correct, next week they would spell 16 words.

I was usually a pretty high scorer.

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Oh. I forgot when I posted that. The spell checker, while convenient, is also really crappy when it comes to Microsoft Word. For instance, try spelling "millennia" on Firefox.

Also, I got to the finals in the spelling bee in 4th grade. </brag>

I had spelling tests in Primary School. I graduated from years six in 2000, so it wasn't that long ago. Or are spelling tests not the same thing?

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."