Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

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/sh...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:

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

Fixed.

Although I did get a kick out of 'showthread' being 'shortbread'.

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

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.)

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

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!

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

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."

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

"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.

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

You mean pedant?

:runs:

-Daniel

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

Not to put too fine a pedantic point on the discussion, but "citation" is the noun form of the verb "to cite". :)

Re: Spelling is Fun.
 

" 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