Julia Thompson wrote:
...
> > I'm with you there, Julia. I do enough writing where the output
> > must be good that I have to keep working on my spelling. After
> > awhile, it's hard to stop!
>
> Actually, this is one of the only places I really worry about it.
> There's another mailing list on which I try to be careful, as well.
>
> I'm not sure when I'll next be writing stuff for a more formal
> audience. Maybe it's good to stay in practice for that?
>
> > Spellcheck makes it easier, but won still has two check four
> > homophones...
> > ---David
> >
> > Who confesses to not reading posts with bad spelling/grammar.
>
> I read them, but ones with bad spelling take me significantly longer,
> and if one is too long, or there are too many of them, I start getting a
> headache. Bad grammar doesn't bother me as badly, as long as it's
> reasonably consistent.
I've long ago decided that I can't read everything. Although
it's obviously not a perfect screen, sticking to well-written posts
seems to work pretty well.
> I don't use spellcheckers, except ones that call the misspellings to my
> attention as I'm typing. I caught one yesterday that way. Dealing with
> a dictionary is easier than customizing a spell checker to recognize
> words it doesn't already have, at least for me.
>
> Julia
I'm exactly the opposite, I hate the ones that try to change
things as I write. I find it distracting, and much prefer to deal
with possible misspellings as a separate step. As for dictionaries,
they take much longer. Plus, I never did get an OED...
As for customization, it's not a problem. Most of the words
that spellcheckers complain about are common enough that they've
already been corrected in a year or so. I've reached the point
where the names of almost all my colleagues no longer set off the
spellcheck.
---David
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