Comments on: Spelling is your friend

By: Blue Witch

Blue Witch — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:27:51 +0000

Witchy likes SPELL checkers - no more wonky spells! Yippee!!!

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:49:29 +0000

How about something that checks your spelling no matter where you’re typing? I haven’t gotten down to using it as a spellchecker yet, but ActiveWords tells me it can replace commonly misspelled words as you type them. It’s a neat program anyway and worth checking out.

By: Splee

Splee — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:02:33 +0000

I agree Witho, my comment above was sarky to the extreme ;)

I always know I’ve spelt a word wrong. You know when you look at a word and think to yourself, “now that’s just not right“. I just need the reference to look up the correct spelling.

By: witho

witho — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:54:38 +0000

It makes sense to me, but it would, wouldn’t it?

What I’m saying is that too much reliance on spell-checkers is bad.

By: Splee

Splee — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:14:56 +0000

Witho: I’m confuzzled… is it me or did that comment make little sense? Maybe that was the joke, eh?

Col: I’m not an evangelist… I just prefer it.

By: witho

witho — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:59:19 +0000

I think there is ample proof out there on the internet and in my electronic interactions with people who use spellcheckers that reliance on them as a substitute for reading what you’ve just written is a recipe for shoddiness. (Hmmm, did I spell that right? ;))

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:19:49 +0000

I know IE has a dodgy implementation of HTML and CSS and all it’s security holes and foibles and so on and so on.

But Firefox evangelists are like all evangelists. Annoying! :-)

I know Firefox has a better - stricter - rendering engine etc etc, but I find it slowish (for some reason), and I don’t like the download UI. I like the idea of tabbed browsing more than the reality because when I mistakenly close one window I’ve also closed 4 others….

And IE7 will be out soonish to make everything better…

By: Splee

Splee — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:48:02 +0000

That’s what technology is for Witho! It means you no longer need to use your brain if you don’t want to. Learning grammar and spelling is an outmoded concept.

By: witho

witho — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:44:46 +0000

I use my eyes and brain as spell checkers

By: Splee

Splee — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:22:56 +0000

Just because you love your IE Ron. Considering you’re a man in IT I’m dissapointed that IE hasn’t driven you loopy already. :P