PizzaTrophy wrote:
I'm just a good spellist and grammarist.
Are you also a wordsmith?
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| Author: | Did he sell eggs? [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:44 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Einoo T. Spork [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:20 am ] |
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MIE AWESUMELY INTELIGENTS SPELUN BRAINZ, DATZ WUTT. |
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| Author: | Ju Ju Master [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:21 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:03 am ] |
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Ju Ju Master wrote: 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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| Author: | PizzaTrophy [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:07 am ] |
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I'm just a good spellist and grammarist. |
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| Author: | Beyond the Grave [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:14 am ] |
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Google: The Ultimate Spell Checker. I spell check everything. |
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| Author: | Einoo T. Spork [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:15 am ] |
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PizzaTrophy wrote: I'm just a good spellist and grammarist.
Are you also a wordsmith?
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| Author: | Droideka [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:20 am ] |
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I generally have promo excellante spelling. |
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| Author: | Code J [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:25 am ] |
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I've got pretty good spelling - but the Firefox spell checker is a dream. |
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| Author: | Shwoo [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:42 am ] |
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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... On the TV Tropes wiki, I wrote: The Snowflake Day episode also contained the a scene where... In a fanfic, I wrote: He was starting to wonder if it he really was dreaming. In an edit summary on the H*R wiki, I wrote: I just tested this out, but it may be because the my connection isn't very good
I seem to have a problem with editing sentences. |
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| Author: | PizzaTrophy [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:56 am ] |
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Einoo T. Spork wrote: PizzaTrophy wrote: I'm just a good spellist and grammarist. Are you also a wordsmith? Yes. Thanks for noticing. TP. Toast paint, not toilet paper. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:59 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Did he sell eggs? [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:18 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Revenge of the Burninated [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:14 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Schmelen [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:19 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: 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.
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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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:53 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Schmelen [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:33 pm ] |
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That's history skills. |
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| Author: | PianoManGidley [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:43 pm ] |
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Schmelen wrote: That's history skills.
More etymology skills, which is part of language, in which spelling is also key. |
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| Author: | Schmelen [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:45 pm ] |
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Well, it's still history, right? History of language? |
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| Author: | Droideka [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:23 pm ] |
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Did he sell eggs? wrote: 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.*
Who wants to be awesome when you can be awesome, like me?
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| Author: | ramrod [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:33 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: 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. 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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| Author: | Dark Grapefruit [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:15 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Chekt [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:56 pm ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | ChickenLeg [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:54 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | StrongRad [ Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:13 pm ] |
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ramrod wrote: StrongRad wrote: 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. 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.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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| Author: | Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:22 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Join The Homestarmy [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:24 am ] |
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StrongRad wrote: Spelling classes were unfair to students who can't spell. I kid you not!
... 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... |
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| Author: | PizzaTrophy [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:03 am ] |
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StrongRad wrote: Spelling classes were unfair to students who can't spell. I kid you not!
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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| Author: | Code J [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:31 am ] |
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Code J wrote: I've got pretty good spelling - but the Firefox spell checker is a dream.
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> |
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| Author: | Shwoo [ Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:39 am ] |
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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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