View Full Version : Spelling is Fun.
Brandon Martus
27-09-2004, 16:12
You can now check spelling on your UFH Nominations (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/ufh.php?action=nominate), Image Descriptions (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?), and White Paper Descriptions (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?).
Let me know if you find any problems when using these new features.
I'm thinking there may be a bug in the UFH one, so you should all go test it out and nominate your heroes. *nudge nudge* :)
Dorienne
27-09-2004, 16:25
Thanks Brandon!
That's too cool, you do too much. =)
David Kelly
27-09-2004, 17:18
I think you just made the GRAMMAR CURMUDGEON (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=2065) really happy, brandon. :]
Greg Ross
27-09-2004, 19:56
I think you just made the GRAMMAR CURMUDGEON (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=2065) really happy, brandon. :]
Wait! I'm the Grammar Curmudgeon!
I think you just made the GRAMMAR CURMUDGEON (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?u=2065) really happy, brandon. :]
Don't you mean this grammar curmudgeon (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?userid=127)?
Or just this curmudgeon (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/member.php?find=lastposter&t=30029)?
Either way, spelling is fun.
:)
Wetzel
Arefin Bari
27-09-2004, 20:06
i think brandon just made all of us happy...
what would we do without brandon? :ahh:
Wait! I'm the Grammar Curmudgeon!
Greg is totally the Grammar Curmudgeon.
Amanda is just a big dork.
Brandon, kudos on this new feature.
When do you find time for this stuff?
JV
Arefin Bari
27-09-2004, 20:19
Brandon, kudos on this new feature.
When do you find time for this stuff?
JV
when he is sitting down in his office area and cleaning his desks... :)
Brandon Martus
27-09-2004, 20:22
Brandon, kudos on this new feature.
When do you find time for this stuff?
when he is sitting down in his office area and cleaning his desks... :)
close .. i was sitting at work, with a few extra minutes around lunch time, and realized that it was a quick copy/paste .. took about 3 minut-------err. i worked on it for hours last night, and lost several hours of sleep. i dont know what i was thinking. i had to type the whole dictionary into the system three times. and then i had to spell check the dictionary.. word by----- 3 minute copy/paste. :)
Amanda Morrison
27-09-2004, 20:47
I actually wasn't going to comment about how happy I was, and make a big scene like I did when the spellcheck came back.
But I really am ecstatic! :)
JudyVandy
28-09-2004, 08:48
Not to be looking at the appropriate dental appendages of the gift horse, but what about a grammar check when that equine has another sleepless night with which to contend???
No, I really am "just kidding." (I think...) Many thanks for this feature. We can all use it from time to time.
Brandon Martus
28-09-2004, 09:13
this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30313) is the closest thing I can offer. :)
:ducks:
LOL...
i love the spelling check but they say to
Ewes spiel cheek
Whilst a spell checker should work, there is so much use in a read through beforehand
Tytus Gerrish
28-09-2004, 22:49
Oh no!
Beth Sweet
29-09-2004, 12:30
Oh no!
Oh my gosh! We're all finally going to figure out what Tytus has been trying to say all of these years! Yay spell check! :D
Elgin Clock
30-11-2004, 00:58
Hey Brandon....
Is there any way to make the spell checker thing skip web URLs?
Like why is "www" not a word? or "chiefdelphi" (non capitalized as seen in the URL)??
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=31459
In that URL alone, I get about 6 errors. "HTTP" "www" "ChiefDelphi" "show thread" "PHP" "thread id".
Weird.. I find myself hitting the ignore button more than the change button on my posts.. :ahh:
Amanda Morrison
30-11-2004, 01:13
Fixed.
Although I did get a kick out of 'showthread' being 'shortbread'.
I would like to bring this thread to the top again.
I am seeing more and more spelling errors. Please, please, please use the spell check. This may be a lot to ask, but please read through your post before you hit submit. If there are grammatical errors... fix them... if there are spelling errors... fix them... it really won't take that long and you will come out looking like a smarter person!
Thanks!
(and this post is not aimed at people from other countries... it is aimed at people who type a really quick post and hit submit without reading what they have just typed.)
Beth Sweet
21-03-2005, 20:54
Just one quick one that's been bothering me. Congratulations, not congradulations please. I know, it seems trivial but I cringe everytime I see it. It's almost as bad as its and it's. Thanks!
Billfred
21-03-2005, 20:59
It's almost as bad as its and it's.
You're dead on. I'll remind the group...
"Its" is possessive, such as "The robot had its arm fixed by the technical mastermind that is Billfred."
"It's" is a contraction for "it is," such as "Anyone reading the above sentence would know it's really exaggerating to call Billfred a technical mastermind."
Rick TYler
21-03-2005, 22:14
You're dead on. I'll remind the group...
"Its" is possessive, such as "The robot had its arm fixed by the technical mastermind that is Billfred."
"It's" is a contraction for "it is," such as "Anyone reading the above sentence would know it's really exaggerating to call Billfred a technical mastermind."
"Your" is possessive, "you're" is the contraction of "you are." "Yore" is a somewhat archaic term meaning "the old days." For example: You're going to a battle site of yore, your majesty?
"Cite" is an abbreviation for "citation" which is a document of some kind, which can, ironically, be good or bad. It means a documented reference. "Sight" is vision. "Site" is a location. For example: Your cite on the FIRST urban legend regarding artificial sight is discussed in more detail on Team Pedantic's site.
A "pedant" is someone who is obsessive about picky little details. The Grammar Curmudgeon is a pedant. A "pendant" is a weight that swings from something flexible. For example: Only a pedant would care when someone uses "pendant" incorrectly.
"Two" is one more than one. "Too" means also. "To" is a preposition indicating a direction or movement in a direction (a "vector" to you physics pendants.) For example: Two men are moving the piano to the lobby, and they are having fun, too.
There are others, but I don't want anyone's hed to ecksploed.
By the way, this thread should have been titled, "Spelling is Phun!!1!" I am so disappointed.
Daniel Brim
22-03-2005, 00:32
(a "vector" to you physics pendants.)
You mean pedant?
:runs:
-Daniel
Greg Ross
22-03-2005, 00:53
"Cite" is an abbreviation for "citation"
Not to put too fine a pedantic point on the discussion, but "citation" is the noun form of the verb "to cite". :)
Rick TYler
22-03-2005, 01:04
A "pedant" is someone who is obsessive about picky little details. A "pendant" is a weight that swings from something flexible.
(...)
"To" is a preposition indicating a direction or movement in a direction (a "vector" to you physics pendants.)
You mean pedant?
:runs:
" Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan(.)" Judges 12:6a
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