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(August 8, 2014 at 9:34 am)ignoramus Wrote: What makes me laugh is he "knew" it was about him and his spelling mistakes.
If he knew he made that many spelling mistakes, why didn't he bother to correct them? Even after the fact!

That's just laziness and inconsiderate to the extreme.
We all make the odd mistake, no ones cares.

EXCELLENT point. Logic win!

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(August 8, 2014 at 10:03 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(August 8, 2014 at 9:24 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm with the grammar Nazis. Folks, if you think your ideas are important enough to make a new thread accessible by all, use a damned spell checker already.

I personally am disciplined about spelling; I cannot stand misspelling a word. I very rarely use a spell-checker, too. I'm a writer; language is my tool. I take pride in wielding it well.

But I don't hold the misspellings of others against them, so long as they're not crowing about how intelligent they are.

I think of it this way. Sometimes a guy just has to fart, and there's nothing he can do about it. But if a guy will just let 'er rip anywhere, anytime, and expect me to accept it, that's rude.

Everyone makes mistakes. It's the obviously not trying to prevent them that bothers me, because that shows a disrespect for everyone on the forum.

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(August 8, 2014 at 10:57 am)Thackerie Wrote:

(August 7, 2014 at 4:29 pm)Diablo Wrote: I always cross the 7's when I'm writing here in France, since they put a thingy on the 1 which makes it look like a 7.

I cross 7s most of the time because I thought it was cool when I first learned of it when I was a teenager. I am now 56 but far from mature.

I never cross 7s, because then it looks dumb when I tell people how "1337" I am.

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(August 8, 2014 at 10:06 am)Napoléon Wrote: If everyone just used Google chrome we wouldn't have an issue with spelling mistakes, it has a spell checker built in.

Yeah, but Google products take pictures of you while you masturbate. That's a problem for me.

(August 8, 2014 at 10:06 am)Napoléon Wrote: If everyone just used Google chrome we wouldn't have an issue with spelling mistakes, it has a spell checker built in.

I agree with this 100%. Apart from the Google Chrome bit.

(August 8, 2014 at 10:06 am)Napoléon Wrote: If everyone just used Google chrome we wouldn't have an issue with spelling mistakes, it has a spell checker built in.

So does Firefox with the added benefit of not starting a new instance of the program with every freakin' tab.

(August 10, 2014 at 4:08 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:

(August 8, 2014 at 10:06 am)Napoléon Wrote: If everyone just used Google chrome we wouldn't have an issue with spelling mistakes, it has a spell checker built in.

So does Firefox with the added benefit of not starting a new instance of the program with every freakin' tab.

Does it? I never knew. Not that I'd need it.

So, basically: Use something other than IE, and you shouldn't have any spelling troubles.

Alterntivly yu cud lern to spel.

Or post everything on a picture of a cat, then we'd all think you're being deeply intellectual and genre-savvy.

(August 10, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Or post everything on a picture of a cat, then we'd all think you're being deeply intellectual and genre-savvy.

(August 10, 2014 at 4:08 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: So does Firefox with the added benefit of not starting a new instance of the program with every freakin' tab.

It doesn't do that...