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Camo-sling Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Forge your own path. Posts: 1419 Australia Gender:	Spell-Check Apr 17^th, 2008 at 3:26am Ive read a quite alot of articles and noticed some spelling mistakes and I had a thought that we could include a spell check button/option when writing a topic/p.m/reply. Does anyone agree that a spell-check option should be included in the YaBBc tags?
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Re: Spell-Check
Reply #1 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 3:04pm

I would love a proper spell checker, by preference one that knows British as well as American English.
But just one language would do if no better one is available.

On the other hand, the worst spellers have English as native language and are just too lazy to read what they wrote. Most mistakes would show up with reading back and taking time to change to proper language.

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Ethan Funditor Offline so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow... Posts: 858 On the edge of a lake... Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #2 - Apr 17^th, 2008 at 3:14pm Mozilla Firefox has a built-in spellchecker for everything the user types. I'd recommend that.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #3 - Apr 18^th, 2008 at 5:57pm spell checks are for wimps - real men make typos :-)
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Re: Spell-Check
Reply #4 - Apr 19^th, 2008 at 2:41pm

Well, as a not-natural-english writer, I suppose it would be OK with a spell check. But I like it whithout, too.
Now, I must read and re-read a few times what I write, to find bad spelling. And this gives me a little chance to try to sort out bad thinking and logic, too. Can be rather usefull, sometimes

And it allways seem to be possible to comprehend what bad spellers intend to write, if a bit annoying, sometimes..

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southpaw Descens Offline Posts: 161 Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #5 - May 11^th, 2008 at 1:02am [quote author=curious_aardvark link=1208417167/0#3 date=1208555830]spell checks are for wimps - real men make typos :-)[/quote] That's rite, kurious ardvark! ::)
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Re: Spell-Check
Reply #6 - May 12^th, 2008 at 7:33am

Of course the whole north american education system insists on building typos into the english language people over there are taught anyway :-)

colour - much too complicated let's miss spell it color.
And then there's the whole al gore school of spelling. We'd just need too many dictionaries :-)
So at the end of the day we all spell differently and think we're right.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #7 - May 13^th, 2008 at 6:23am As long as you can understand it.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #8 - May 14^th, 2008 at 7:15am exactly apparently as lnog as the ltrrers at the strat and end of the wrod are coerrct we can work out what the word is suppoesed to be anyawy. Which is pretty cool :-)
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Dave M Descens Offline Slinging Rocks at seagulls Posts: 239 Littlehampton West Sussex Eng Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #9 - May 18^th, 2008 at 12:01pm Try and find a copy of Bill Brysons book Mother tongue this will give you a good insight how the English language evolved
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #10 - May 19^th, 2008 at 7:58am lol but he's an american ;-)
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Ethan Funditor Offline so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow... Posts: 858 On the edge of a lake... Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #11 - Jun 10^th, 2008 at 7:12pm [quote author=curious_aardvark link=1208417167/0#10 date=1211198324]lol but he's an american ;-) [/quote] Actually, he's back on your side of the pond again. Unless you're talking about original nationality... Then he's a Iowan! ;D
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #12 - Jul 22^nd, 2008 at 7:50am just a quick update - I've recently switched over to firefox on all machines and it prompted me today to install an english - british dictionary. So that's the answer - get firefox, it's very good.
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Branmun Tiro Offline Never drink and sling Posts: 15 northwest ontario Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #13 - Dec 6^th, 2008 at 11:29pm I think YaBB 2.3 has a spell-check, but then you'll have to update everything, move the posts, setup the forum to just the way you want it(although I'm guessing the old css will not need vary much change). But I never seen any communication problems anyway so
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: Spell-Check Reply #14 - Mar 9^th, 2009 at 5:25pm no! most internet spell checkers are horrible, when i type 'wen' instead of 'when' it says every possible word except for when itself best not use it
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