Darth InSidious Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Originally posted by DarthMoeller @JediGoku I recommend you try some Star Wars books. Theres tons out there, and your obviously a SW fan if you post here. The Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy is very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 well, as far as spelling and grammer goes, i really don't care about it as long as i can make sense of what's being said. i know that i kinda have a wierd style of posting (by not putting in capital letters except for proper nouns), but my posts are still legible and (hopefully) easy to understand. and if your looking for a good read, i highly recommend any book written by Tom Clancy. his stuff is just absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 You mean Tom Clancy like some game manuf. or creator or the like? I can't remember what that game was maybe Ghost Recon? or is that a different one? General Kenobi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 You mean Tom Clancy like some game manuf. or creator or the like? I can't remember what that game was maybe Ghost Recon? or is that a different one? Tom Clancy is a writer and those games like Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell are based on his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Thanks DM Ghost Recon was the one I was thinking of. It came with my graphics card for a machine once. Does anyone think that programs with heavy spell checking like Word and Word Perfect have lessened our spelling and the like? General Kenobi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rok_stoned Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 I recommend you try some Star Wars books. Theres tons out there, and your obviously a SW fan if you post here. watch out tho some star wars books are really depressing in both depth and plot wise... but maybe some1 should start a thread on good and bad star wars books or series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoffe Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Does anyone think that programs with heavy spell checking like Word and Word Perfect have lessened our spelling and the like? Doubtful, they're rather handy in picking up typos and the like that's easy to overlook when you are writing some long text. If you don't know what it should be anyway a spell checker won't be much help since they aren't really context sensitive. Some texts become quite hilarious if you blindly follow what it suggests. That just reminds me of this little gem, in case you haven't seen it (read it out loud): Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 very funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Kenobi Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 LOL....That's hilarious Stoffe.... Jsut gews tu shu yu spull shuckurs r guud General Kenobi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Now that's kewl stoffe! Hilarious! Yah, I tend to get more annoyed rather than finding the checkers being helpful. Especially in MS Word! Red lines here, Green lines there... it's maddening I usually wind up turning off the "suggest while typing" option just so I can see my text rather then gobbly-gook color lines everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rok_stoned Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 stoofe wear does u finder that"DAS"ASD" das erfin froidikousin wilkommen das frinkler snerve. seriously where'd you find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdKnightR Posted July 31, 2005 Author Share Posted July 31, 2005 Does anyone think that programs with heavy spell checking like Word and Word Perfect have lessened our spelling and the like? It may have played a part in it. I know for a fact that much of our modern media (phones, typewriters, e-mail, etc.) have contributed greatly to the loss of penmanship skills over the years, so I would think it is highly probable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourdad Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 Well, thanks to both MdKnightR and Lion54. You guys are too much I don't think spelling mistakes bother me that much. I can overlook them. However, when somebody makes a post, without proper punctuation and add in a lot of spelling mistakes, I simply can't read it. I don't think spell checking programs can help you. If something is grammatically incorrect, the program won't help you much. It might even change the entire meaning of the sentence. I'd like to point out, that most of the non-english speaking LF members, can spell very well. Ranging from the french-canadians to the scandinavians, passing by the dutch and the germans, all of them, all of us, seem to make much more effort in spelling correctly, avoiding grammar mistakes and using good puctuation then some of english speaking ones. Not pointing at anyone, but I find some posts unreadable. I'm a native from GeeBeedotcom and there was a member who would write his posts in a big block without paragraphs or punctuation. After a while of complaints from fellow members, he changed his ways and now posts in a very "neat" manner. Oh, in case you're wondering, no, english classes in Québec are not good. Our schools are not capable of teaching english to anyone. They can't even teach proper french. You mostly learn it on your own, reading books and watching TV. Yes, TV helped me learn english and they dare say that it's bad for your education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rok_stoned Posted July 31, 2005 Share Posted July 31, 2005 I don't think spelling mistakes bother me that much. I can overlook them. However, when somebody makes a post, without proper punctuation and add in a lot of spelling mistakes, I simply can't read it. thats true language barrier exaserbates misunder standings and too bad about english classes there we get good french edjucation here in bc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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