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| Thread ID: 31430 | 2003-03-21 10:49:00 | Spelling | oldfart (3118) | Press F1 |
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| 129900 | 2003-03-21 10:49:00 | Hi guys I’m one of the world’s worst spellers. It is an affliction I try to hide as much as possible. For example I’m writing this in Word so that I can eliminate as many mistakes as I can. The other day I came across a little app called ieSpell and it will do a Spell Check in any Internet Explorer form or window. The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools")—after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check. It’s free for personal and not-for-profit use. If your like me then you may like to check out ieSpell (http://www.iespell.com/). I recommend it. The main benefit is that it is much quicker that a browser based spell checker like the Press F1 example. I find that I am quite reliant on Spell Checkers but I really hate it when my spelling mistake is actually the correct spelling for another word. The Spell checker gives me ten out of ten and I end up looking a fool—when someone points the error out to me. Cheers—oldfart |
oldfart (3118) | ||
| 129901 | 2003-03-21 10:54:00 | >...much quicker that a... than (sorry, couldn't resist) |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 129902 | 2003-03-21 11:14:00 | Bugger See what I mean. cheers—oldfart |
oldfart (3118) | ||
| 129903 | 2003-03-21 14:11:00 | Hi Oldfart, If your like me then If you're like me then Sorry, but I couldn't resist the temptation to rub it in. Gorela |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 129904 | 2003-03-21 23:52:00 | Hello Oldfart In these days of computers and spell checkers bad spelling is not so horrendous but if you are from my era it was a very punishable sin...I vividly REMEMBER at Primary School in STD 4 when the headmaster took a Spelling Test every Friday and each one we got wrong was " one cut" on the hand.....a cut was from a black Strap about 4" wide and about 10' down from the handle divided in the 5 small straps.....yes it hurt......but now nearly all of STD 4 are now good spellers..... As it was many years ago I will reveal his name...MR ABEL ......Musselborough Primary DUNEDIN.... |
olldaddy76 (2539) | ||
| 129905 | 2003-03-22 00:03:00 | HI olldaddy76 I remember the days. I used to get so many words wrong the teacher stopped strapping me. The rule was we had twenty five words to learn and received a cut of the strap for every incorrect answer. Most times I would get most of the words wrong. All the kids thought that this teacher was a heartless old sod but he didn't have the stomach to stand there and give me twenty cuts. The unfortunate thing about spell checkers is they are not infallible. Cheers—oldfart |
oldfart (3118) | ||
| 129906 | 2003-03-22 00:11:00 | Dont wuri! Speling is int important 2 the nu generation. | Danger (287) | ||
| 129907 | 2003-03-22 00:24:00 | >Dont wuri! Speling is int important 2 the nu generation. I don't believe you. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 129908 | 2003-03-22 03:11:00 | I'm not sure where I saw this, but a test was done on university students a while ago. Asked to write and proofread "manually" an essay, the highest graded (in the US SAT test) students had an average of 5 spelling errors, and the lower graded ones had 7. Similar groups who used a spelling checker scored 16 and 17 errors. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 129909 | 2003-03-22 04:14:00 | >I'm not sure where I saw this, but a test was done on university students a while ago. Asked to write and proofread "manually" an essay, the highest graded (in the US SAT test) students had an average of 5 spelling errors, and the lower graded ones had 7. Similar groups who used a spelling checker scored 16 and 17 errors. Are we to conclude that we should not use spell checker? |
Thomas (1820) | ||
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