Spellcheck on boards.ie

Capt'n Midnight

Spell Chequer

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.

DRakE

Get one, so i dont have to read garbage from User again.

Ta.

User45701

Try the ignore button Drake
also if u notice i was the 1 who sugested the spell check

The Muppet

Hi,

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it

deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod

are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and

lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a

total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey

lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

Teh Mueppt

User45701

Very interesting i was able to read that with no problem the only wrd i even had to think about for more than a second was rset

Ryaner

Yeah but the main problem with the people who make no attempt to spell is just that. If they had the first and last letters in place with the rest just mixed around we'd all be able read what they said but the messages tend to be quite unreadable at times.

Funky

How about learning to spell? And take your time while typing until you're GOOD?

ixoy

Originally posted by Funky
How about learning to spell? And take your time while typing until you're GOOD?

I'd be worried if they didn't know how to spell already. All school kids surely learn the likes of: it's/its, their/they're, your/you're, et cetera. It should generally be something you don't have to think about. I mean we're not talking about getting perfect posts, or anything similiar. I don't really care if you say: "John and me went to the Boards Beer Bash" instead of "John and I" because subject/verb agreement can be tricky.

Seriously, how difficult is it to glance over a post for thirty seconds before hitting the Submit Reply button? Iron out any glaring errors? It would ease my poor soul and, judging by this thread, calm other posters as well...

DeVore

technically an unfeasibly large amount of work.... theres no Enable Spelling Checker option in the system. I'm not coding it in for people who wont use it anyway.

Interesting debate all the same...

DeV.

The Muppet

User 45701 if you're using windoz, Ispell is a handy freeware spellchecking proggy that imbeds into Internet explorer. Its available here .

rymus

How about an intoxication translator? Handy for those drunken posts that make very little or no sense in the morning.

Winters

People seem to be too lazy to either:

• Open Microsoft Word [or other text editors] and check the spelling there
• Google for an online spelling tool and check it there
• Ask users (or "real people") in MSN, IRC, Yahoo! etc. how to spell the word

I'd be against putting on it. You must do the work for yourself children, Boards.ie cannot be there to do everything for you. I do occasionally open word if I cannot get the word spelt correctly. Or if I cannot think of a word I use the "real people" option, it can be spooky talking to these "real people" but it does get easier with time.

Is there not going to be something in VB3 about spell checker or am I thinking of something else? It might just be the enhanced input thingy.

Victor

Originally posted by rymus
How about an intoxication translator? Handy for those drunken posts that make very little or no sense in the morning.

Based on what some people post when drunk, disabling [url] and [img]tags would be more important. [/img][/url]