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Re: How much does spelling matter BryanP, I totally agree with you. I cannot stand the u instead of you, r instead of are, and 2 instead of to. Ive seen something like that no more than three times in my life, but my patience for it is virtually gone. Im more lenient about writing

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Re: How much does spelling matter It would also help if people learn the correct way to use certain words. I particularly notice this with words like affect and effect. People say that something effects something else when the correct word in that situation would actually be affect

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Re: How much does spelling matter Well, When I am writing, Im also nervous about my mistakes as well. but I hope everyone wouldnt mind me. because obviously English is not my first language... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186720#p186720

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Re: How much does spelling matter I fully agree with both KeyIsFull and Tward.Unfortunately I cannot take much care of spelling in English since it is not my native language, but in Spanish Im too perfectionist, even on informal channels like Facebook or text messaging, although using

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Re: How much does spelling matter I fully agree with both KeyIsFull and Tward.Unfortunately I cannot take much care of spelling in English since it is not my native language, but in Spanish Im too perfectionist, even on informal channels like Facebook or text messaging, although using

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Re: How much does spelling matter As an advance placement graduate who spent a fair amount of time being schooled into a grammar and spelling Nazi, there comes a time when I want to thump skulls on the internet regarding these issues, particularly among people I believe are supposed

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Re: How much does spelling matter It also seems like the person has to actually be willing enough to change their habits, as having good spelling would be useful if you were a prospective employee. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186574#p186574

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Re: How much does spelling matter Nocturnus, I have to agree with you. Particularly about higher education. When I was in regular school, grade school through high school, I really didnt pay attention to spelling or give it much thought because most of the teachers were willing to let

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.As for me. My spelling isnt that good and my punctuation is quite bad. In school it didnt matter that much as tward has said before, but in college it mattered a lot more. But the thing was they never told me off because of my spelling. The courses were

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Re: How much does spelling matter @brad as someone whos been through mainstreem school and speshel schools I can completely agree with you their. I know my spelling isnt really the best, but I have been slowly improving and making attempts to change it. My brail, however, is far below

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Re: How much does spelling matter Actually Ive heard that literacy among blind people has been dropping like a stone since some idiot came out with a concept that braille didnt matter any more now we have wider access to screen readers, with the addition that major VI organisations arent

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Re: How much does spelling matter I agree with CX2, and at Brad, what does P 2 mean? Part of the thing to note is that many of the stuff used in short hand lingo I do not understand. Someone asked me if I ever used the internet, because I would act like one of those people from the 1970s

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Re: How much does spelling matter Quite often those fraudulent sites are made by people from non-English speaking countries, this isnt a matter of racism on my part so much as the fact that many smaller countries have a weaker legal and law enforcement system, thus the people running

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Re: How much does spelling matter So far, I agree with everything that has been said. Tward you are definitely right about braille displays and this is something I have also noticed. I am fortunate enough to live in a country where you dont have to pay for your entire display

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Re: How much does spelling matter @Green Gables Fan: Its most likely supposed to mean up to. I would never use that sort of language myself, as in writing like that, but Ive seen enough examples of it to at least being able to guess what they mean.Regarding commas and grammar rules

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Re: How much does spelling matter I didnt know Danish used a lot of commas, but there must be a reason for that of course.Also, using or not using contractions determines the tone of what the person is trying to convey.I have also seen this on a Spanish website, where none of the acute

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Re: How much does spelling matter GreenGablesFan, if that wasnt something a lot of people would fall for itd be hilarious. Right up there with girls who get pregnant then worry their babyll drop while theyre on the toilet. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186433#p186433

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Re: How much does spelling matter I wont say that Danish uses a lot of commas, but theyre used differently... Or so I believe. Commas can be some tricky bastards at times, so I tend to just put them where ever I think they fit.I just found this link to a Wikipedia article that at least

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.It doesnt mean anything. I made it up on the spot. What I was getting at was that people use stupid short hand sometimes that no one can understand. and p was meant to mean up. as in. hi what are u up to today? I went to the shops and it was fun. URL

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Re: How much does spelling matter What I have liked to see was autocorrecting tools for teens. Im not sure what kind of an algorithm would be needed, or if one already exists, but it would detect things that teens like to use and it will change it automatically so that no one will complain

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Re: How much does spelling matter Sebby, my major complaint was that it tried correcting things that didnt need correcting. Changing settings other than simply turning it off wouldnt really help this, I just got fed up of cancelling unnecessary corrections. URL: http

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.I dont mind things like U for you and R for Are and itz instead of its. and once you know the text speak as people like to call it, its easy as well. I dont mind that and can put up with it. What I do mind is important topics on any webpage not only

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Re: How much does spelling matter U/you and r/are really pisses me off for some reason. I mean how hard can it be to write the actual Word? To shorten a Word thats normally only three letters long like that is just pure laziness if you ask me. I can be extremely perfectionistic at times

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Re: How much does spelling matter U/you and r/are really piss me off for some reason. I mean how hard can it be to write the actual Word? To shorten a Word thats normally only three letters long like that is just pure laziness if you ask me. I can be extremely perfectionistic at times

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Re: How much does spelling matter Thanks for someone pointing the spellcheck function in firefox. I honestly didnt know about it until today lol. So thanks again, no more horrible spelling from arq, well, hope not! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186297#p186297

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi,I see mention of NVDA + Firefox being able to spell-check entered text, but how is this done? Do you need a Firefox Add-on or an NVDA add-on of some kind? Is it multilingual? Ive never heard of such a thing Regards,Balliol URL: http

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.I was talking about more spelling when texting on the IPhone I usually write u for u r for r u r for your and things like that, oh and gd for good and dw for dont worry. But not when writing on a laptop for some reason URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: How much does spelling matter I agree with AlexM94. If people arent willing to write three letters, then autocorrect would do it. Think about this. Would you feel pissed off if the person wrote the letter U, but autocorrect changed it to y o u? You would never know if the person

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Re: How much does spelling matter I agree with AlexM94. If people arent willing to write three letters, then autocorrect would do it. Think about this. Would you feel pissed off if the person wrote the letter U, but autocorrect changed it to y o u? You would never know if the person

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.Actually, with eliquence u can tell when youve wrote u or you. it sounds slightly different.But with voiceover on iphone you canttel the diffirence.and auto correct on iphone doesnt correct u for me, it just puts it as u. which i like to be honest its

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Re: How much does spelling matter KeyIsFull, as far as I am concerned good spelling and grammar is mandatory for a site maintainer. Especially, for one writing up news articles, game reviews, etc that will be read by the general public. I dont think we can expect everyone on the forum

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Re: How much does spelling matter Hi.I honestly think spelling matters a lot. Especially when it comes to writing posts on new games in the new releases room or the articles room or the main page.Its okay for people to make mistakes when writing in a informal forum like the off topic forum

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Re: How much does spelling matter HTML shouldnt be an issue, just write out whatever youre writing in a word processor and spell check it then add in the tags. If anything this makes it easier to figure out where the tags should go than when youre writing HTML on the fly, as well as making

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Re: How much does spelling matter In addition to what has been written above, misspelling also effects the site in google search rankings. Also, you can tell who actually reads as opposed to those who just use speech as their primary way of interacting with text and computers. URL: http

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Re: How much does spelling matter Not to mention that with NVDA and Firefox at least, youve got a built-in spellchecker thats really simple to use. Spelling errors are clearly indicated and pressing the applications key on them gives suggestions.I think it matters everywhere and isnt just

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Re: How much does spelling matter Practising and maintaining good spelling and grammar retains your ability to write perfectly in the long run. I know many perfectionists would feel let down when they feel they cannot make every single thing perfect. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: How much does spelling matter Just to quickly encourage people, there are more than enough sighted people out there that dont know/dont care how to spell, so sometimes, their forum posts do seem just like some of the ones I see here. And while mine definitely isnt perfect, I try

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Re: How much does spelling matter The Firefox and NVDA spelling checker has saved me from hundreds, if not thousands, of sloppy typos. I know that Dark personally uses Dolphin Hal as his screen reader and I am unsure of what it reports as far as spelling errors are concerned. I know

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Re: How much does spelling matter To be sure, its easier to spell correctly when youve got immediate feedback of spelling mistakes.Dark: its time you got that Mac. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186196#p186196

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Re: How much does spelling matter Ugh no, I turned off auto correct on my Mac because it was driving me mad. If you deal with unusual spellings such as names of people and places from games a lot it gets really, really annoying. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186205

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Re: How much does spelling matter Try setting it to lower pitch rather than speak. I find that to be a good compromise. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=186206#p186206 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

How much does spelling matter

How much does spelling matter Today I decided to reacquaint myself with the database submission guidelines penned by Dark. In the course of reading them, I noticed the abundance of spelling mistakes that he made without bothering to correct. These mistakes show up in most of the other

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Re: How much does spelling matter I think that posting a topic or a reply on a topic spelling matters a bit less. This is a more conversational forum and about games -- so, not as professional. The news and database, however, in my oppinion, are slightly different. To me, the people