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 04/22/2006 04:55:36 PM · #1
Dont worry about spelling, the human mind is so sharp people can read this with out a problem. So all you good spellers can quit bitching when us bad speller spell somthing wrong.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Tiravs

04/22/2006 04:58:36 PM · #2
You da man trav you da man!

04/22/2006 04:59:29 PM · #3
You obviously did not see some of the spelling I have to deal with.

Talk about spelling. There is actually a sentance in Afrikaans and English which has exactly the same meaning and spelling;

it is; MY HAND IS IN WATER (Could also replace the WATER with SAND)
 04/22/2006 05:02:40 PM · #4
Yeah but "Urfotntunae Sucjebt" don't look to good as a title.

I'm a shocking speller but I do think its important for the Title to be correct as it can't be edited once the voting starts.
 04/22/2006 05:08:52 PM · #5
Originally posted by Travis99:

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

Tiravs


I think I read this fact in "Rippleys believe it or not" fact book! It's soo cool innit? (can't be bothered to write like that now - ha ha ha)
 04/22/2006 05:14:16 PM · #6
Finally I have an excuse! Some were born to spell, and some Were born to find excuses why they can’t I guess, lol. Suits me either way ;-)

Haha, Wow, talk about run-on sentence... Anyone have an excuse for that?

Message edited by author 2006-04-22 17:15:16.
 04/22/2006 05:24:19 PM · #7
... and some were born to spell but then were teacher's assistants for several years and lost the ability to spell correctly from seeing nothing but thousands of examples of poor spelling. :(
 04/22/2006 06:33:29 PM · #8
My problem is that I am thinking three words ahead when I type something and in the mean time need to do the translation as well -> I mix letters from words that I am thinking about with the letters of words that I am typing at that moment.

When I read I do no really read words, I manage to read entire lines at once and my mind is just able to make sense of it all before I go to another line. With books it almost goes per paragraph. Funny how you suddenly don't notice anymore that you are reading but experiencing the whole package like a private movie.


04/22/2006 06:51:22 PM · #9
Why is it the good spellers are more vocal then those of us that cannot sprell (yeah, I know it's wrong) well but CAN add and subtract more than 2 numbers - I can even do some other complex maths stuff, like division, if pushed :-) [before the spellers get to this, maths is plural in most of the english world, okay :)].

I remember as a kid those silly maths puzzles that were a parragraph of words - took me longer to figure out the equasion then it did to do the maths (maybe why I ended up doing maths/computing at uni and not journalism huh).

I look at it this way: I feel sorry for linear people that feel compelled to spell the same word the same every time :-)) Besides spell checkers can get most of my stuff but calculators can still only do very basic maths :).
 04/22/2006 07:02:53 PM · #10
Originally posted by robs:

I look at it this way: I feel sorry for linear people that feel compelled to spell the same word the same every time :-)) Besides spell checkers can get most of my stuff but calculators can still only do very basic maths :).


Its not that I am a linear thinker; quite the opposite. I spell words the same way everytime because I am a visual thinker rather than an auditory one (I can only spell words that I've seen before). Being 40% deaf for 20+ years makes you rely on sight (visual cues) more than sound - I can't understand you (or hear you really) unless I am looking at you.

I get along with the world visually, unless the music is really loud. :)
 04/22/2006 07:04:35 PM · #11
Try spelling in English when English is not your first language. I do much worse in Zulu that I do in English though. Spell checks are great, but 50% of the time I write in Afrikaans - No spell checks for Afrikaans.
Then with some Windows XP programmes it automatically corrects your spelling as you type. Chaos when this program tries to correct Afrikaans words to English...
 04/22/2006 07:13:49 PM · #12
Just a suggestion: you can always type something in word, and copy & paste it when you're done! That way you can do a quick spell check!
 04/22/2006 07:16:39 PM · #13
Spell checkers are stupid because they won't spot a correctly-spelled word used incorrectly. I try to maintain a collections of such published inanities.

I think my favorite is still a report of a school board meeting refusing to investigate what was supposed to be a fact-finding trip, but which apparently became an entertainment-based junket, on the grounds that it would be a waste of time since it was already a "fete accompli."

There was a recent headline in the SF Examiner, touting the President's resoluteness with the declaration that "President Bush Refuses to Waiver" -- I can only hope that means his buddies had better resort to other legal defenses and not count on presidential pardons after all ...
 04/22/2006 09:17:32 PM · #14
A funny one I saw in a published technical paper a few years back -> "data whorehouse" instead of "data warehouse"; although I think sometimes it's the more correct term for some of the stuff I see :-)
 04/22/2006 09:54:26 PM · #15
Originally posted by dahkota:

Being 40% deaf for 20+ years makes you rely on sight (visual cues) more than sound - I can't understand you (or hear you really) unless I am looking at you...

I get along with the world visually, unless the music is really loud. :)


I have an online friend who is legally deaf, and he gets upset when I intentionally misspell in our conversations (eg. "wanna"), for the same reason. Even though he knows what I'm saying he dislikes any misuse of the written word, since it is so important to him.
I've always been naturally good at spelling and grammar, but poor in maths. Put three letters together and they can form a recognisable word; put three digits together and, for me, they're still just three digits!
 04/22/2006 10:52:29 PM · #16
Misspelling can be forgiven and misuse of english language words can be forgiven if english is not your native tongue. But I do have distress when people mixup common words and misuse them. As an example, many people write 'loose' when they mean 'lose'. That type misuse is just plain ignorance or carelessness. Another much more disturbing trend is misspelled words in journals, newspapers, and textbooks, supposedly written by people whose business is writing. In the long run, it probably doesn't matter, today's corrupt language will be in tomorrow's dictionary!
 04/23/2006 12:27:59 AM · #17
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Spell checkers are stupid because they won't spot a correctly-spelled word used incorrectly. I try to maintain a collections of such published inanities.

I think my favorite is still a report of a school board meeting refusing to investigate what was supposed to be a fact-finding trip, but which apparently became an entertainment-based junket, on the grounds that it would be a waste of time since it was already a "fete accompli."

There was a recent headline in the SF Examiner, touting the President's resoluteness with the declaration that "President Bush Refuses to Waiver" -- I can only hope that means his buddies had better resort to other legal defenses and not count on presidential pardons after all ...

Years ago, someone showed me (what he claimed was) a military change order that was a test to see if anyone read the orders. The whole thing was long and boring, but the key point had the effect of changing a meatloaf recipe--

Change line "ground hog meat" to "groundhog meat".

Supposedly, no one noticed.

04/23/2006 12:34:58 AM · #18
Originally posted by hankk:
Years ago, someone showed me (what he claimed was) a military change order that was a test to see if anyone read the orders. The whole thing was long and boring, but the key point had the effect of changing a meatloaf recipe--

Change line "ground hog meat" to "groundhog meat".

Supposedly, no one noticed.

I wonder if the camp commander went horse yelling at the mess sergeant fur following that order, or if he decided to be pig about it and frog it -- the hole thing.

BTW: it's kinda unfair to test people where the typo is just a missing space -- you're expecting people to notice that nothing has been omitted.

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 00:37:14.
 04/23/2006 02:41:17 AM · #19
Originally posted by ElGordo:
Misspelling can be forgiven and misuse of english language words can be forgiven if english is not your native tongue. But I do have distress when people mixup common words and misuse them. As an example, many people write 'loose' when they mean 'lose'. That type misuse is just plain ignorance or carelessness. Another much more disturbing trend is misspelled words in journals, newspapers, and textbooks, supposedly written by people whose business is writing. In the long run, it probably doesn't matter, today's corrupt language will be in tomorrow's dictionary!


Mix up is two words:)
 04/23/2006 02:58:54 AM · #20
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by hankk:
Years ago, someone showed me (what he claimed was) a military change order that was a test to see if anyone read the orders. The whole thing was long and boring, but the key point had the effect of changing a meatloaf recipe--

Change line "ground hog meat" to "groundhog meat".

Supposedly, no one noticed.

I wonder if the camp commander went horse yelling at the mess sergeant fur following that order, or if he decided to be pig about it and frog it -- the hole thing.

BTW: it's kinda unfair to test people where the typo is just a missing space -- you're expecting people to notice that nothing has been omitted.


After all this it's nice to know that nothing has been vomitted.
 04/23/2006 04:44:16 AM · #21
Originally posted by GeneralE:

I wonder if the camp commander went horse yelling at the mess sergeant fur following that order, or if he decided to be pig about it and frog it -- the hole thing.

BTW: it's kinda unfair to test people where the typo is just a missing space -- you're expecting people to notice that nothing has been omitted.


The camp commander went "horse" from yelling? Or maybe he went "hoarse". Who knows?

;-)
 04/23/2006 04:59:24 AM · #22
Originally posted by Travis99:
....the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.


Sometimes people misspell words such that not even these are in the right place... no wonder I couldn't understand them. There are words easy to spell correctly, for everything else, there's Webster.

also, what is it with people these days misspelling "program" as "programme", "center" as "centre", "catalog" as "catalogue", and "color" as "colour"... (joking)
 04/23/2006 05:24:39 AM · #23
Keep in mind that there actually is a considerable number of us on DPC that to not consider English as our mother tongue but a second, third or fourth language, acquired when we are teenagers or even later. In my case, it is the 3rd of 6 languages I speak fluently. Some of us have got the spelling gene, some of us do not.

And as for being on DPC, I am here to learn about photography, and I actually find many shots here absolutely spellbinding.

I'll turn elsewhere to improve my spelling skills.

Edit: Spelling.

Message edited by author 2006-04-23 05:26:29.
 04/23/2006 06:35:45 AM · #24
Originally posted by DrGee:
Originally posted by Travis99:
....the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.


Sometimes people misspell words such that not even these are in the right place... no wonder I couldn't understand them. There are words easy to spell correctly, for everything else, there's Webster.

also, what is it with people these days misspelling "program" as "programme", "center" as "centre", "catalog" as "catalogue", and "color" as "colour"... (joking)

I say, old chap, misrepresenting the Queen's English here a little, what? And by the way, Websters is spelt Oxford English Dictionary. The free version is here Compact Oxford.

Chuckle

You say tomato, and I say tomatoe
You say potato, and I say potatoe
etc. etc.

Spelling tip: get the Google toolbar and use the spelling checker on the tool bar. Won't get waiver versus waver but it does capture the silly ones.

Carl
04/23/2006 08:13:23 AM · #25
I spell very well.
I can't type worth a damn though.
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