Comments on: It Checks The Spelling On Its Blog! http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/ "It is a pinch of scribble not wortha bottle of cabbis." James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:23:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert Glen Fogarty http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1398 Robert Glen Fogarty Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:47:55 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1398 Hey, I'm sure that, if I had to try and write instructions in another language, I'd butcher them as well! Sure, the manufacturers could hire competent translators to edit that stuff -- but <a href="http://engrish.com/" rel="nofollow">would it be as funny</a>? I'm always willing to give people for whom English is a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) language a break, though. My beef is really with native English speakers who should know better and don't. Hey, I’m sure that, if I had to try and write instructions in another language, I’d butcher them as well!

Sure, the manufacturers could hire competent translators to edit that stuff — but would it be as funny?

I’m always willing to give people for whom English is a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) language a break, though. My beef is really with native English speakers who should know better and don’t.

]]> By: Cliffystones http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1397 Cliffystones Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:23:29 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1397 Robert, I wholeheartedly agree! But when is the last time you had to decipher a "Chinglish" users manual. It would be nice if the folks manufacturing goods overseas would cough up a little of the money they save using slave labor, and have someone re-write those things! CS Robert,

I wholeheartedly agree!

But when is the last time you had to decipher a “Chinglish” users manual. It would be nice if the folks manufacturing goods overseas would cough up a little of the money they save using slave labor, and have someone re-write those things!

CS

]]> By: Robert Glen Fogarty http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1396 Robert Glen Fogarty Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:05:07 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1396 Cliffystones: While I agree that people should proofread anything they plan on sharing with other people, I think checking spelling with tools easily available to anyone who professes to know how to use computers is the very least they could do! anonymous: Thanks for helping to prove my point! Cliffystones: While I agree that people should proofread anything they plan on sharing with other people, I think checking spelling with tools easily available to anyone who professes to know how to use computers is the very least they could do!

anonymous: Thanks for helping to prove my point!

]]> By: anonymous http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1395 anonymous Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:17:26 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1395 Spel chekc is for loesers. Hahahahahahzhahsha!!!1!!one! Spel chekc is for loesers. Hahahahahahzhahsha!!!1!!one!

]]> By: Cliffystones http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1394 Cliffystones Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:49:04 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1394 What is worse than not using spell checker is this. People who do not proof- read before they send e-mails or (worse) printed material. I'm not talking about my 10-year-old son's book report either. I'm talking about middle managers and executives who write as if they only have working knowledge of the English language at a 10-year-old level! Cliffystones What is worse than not using spell checker is this. People who do not proof- read before they send e-mails or (worse) printed material.

I’m not talking about my 10-year-old son’s book report either. I’m talking about middle managers and executives who write as if they only have working knowledge of the English language at a 10-year-old level!

Cliffystones

]]> By: Robert Glen Fogarty http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1393 Robert Glen Fogarty Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:59:33 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1393 Oh, I think honest mistakes like that are understandable, Ms. Wahala! It's when someone's obviously not taken the care to make even a simple attempt at ensuring a document's not riddled with little red underlines before it's put out for public consumption that makes me wonder how much that person could possibly know about his or her subject. Especially if it's a "tech expert" who can't be bothered to press a few buttons! It's not a matter of that person being a good or bad writer -- I can overlook grammar blunders and misplaced punctuation (well, I might be a little fanatical about errant apostrophes, but that's my own issue and something I'll rant about another time!). In this day and age, you don't even need to own a dictionary to make sure you're on the right track! Oh, I think honest mistakes like that are understandable, Ms. Wahala! It’s when someone’s obviously not taken the care to make even a simple attempt at ensuring a document’s not riddled with little red underlines before it’s put out for public consumption that makes me wonder how much that person could possibly know about his or her subject. Especially if it’s a “tech expert” who can’t be bothered to press a few buttons!

It’s not a matter of that person being a good or bad writer — I can overlook grammar blunders and misplaced punctuation (well, I might be a little fanatical about errant apostrophes, but that’s my own issue and something I’ll rant about another time!). In this day and age, you don’t even need to own a dictionary to make sure you’re on the right track!

]]> By: Ms. Wahala http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1392 Ms. Wahala Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:09:45 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/scribblepinch/2007/07/09/it-checks-the-spelling-on-its-blog/#comment-1392 LOL... spell checking has definitely spoiled me. My problem is that I type fast, but inaccurately. And though I proofread, I sometmes miss the same things spell check does, things like form instead of from... LOL… spell checking has definitely spoiled me. My problem is that I type fast, but inaccurately. And though I proofread, I sometmes miss the same things spell check does, things like form instead of from…

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