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Spelling 101
Okay, I'm going to cut straight to the chase here, people NEED to use spell check on their Instructables I've seen a butt load of crappy ones that I can't even understand, let alone read (not mentioning any names *cough* Knex *cough*). Okay so here's some helpful hints.
1.MICROSOFT WORD
I mean holy crap is this elementary copy and paste it from Instructable into word then hit spell check, I know it doesn't really work for grammar but its better than nothing.
2. Dictionary Tooltip If you have Firefox which you should, this is just a spell checker that works in Firefox.
Comments
13 years ago
Agreed. (But I'm the sort of person that uses full and correct language and punctuation in text messages, emails and the (rare times) I use instant messageboards.) Oh, and "color" has a "u" in it ...
Reply 13 years ago
Only if your British, or are old, lol
Reply 13 years ago
Or both. I even use full sentences and grammar in phone text messages.
Reply 13 years ago
me too and i'm only 15 ;-P
Reply 13 years ago
I'm known for using semicolons in IM chats.
Reply 13 years ago
Damn, I think I love you now.
Reply 13 years ago
Hahaha! How easily you swoon over the grammar-gifted!
Reply 13 years ago
Indeed. I'm just wonderful like that.
Reply 13 years ago
(Sings)
I'm telling Eric! I'm telling Eric!
Reply 13 years ago
This sounds suspiciously like a pop-culture reference.
Reply 13 years ago
Nope. Slightly closer to home(page).
Reply 13 years ago
I do too.
Reply 13 years ago
Is it irony that on a post ranting about using correct spelling that you used "your" wrong? It should be "you're" as in "you are." Spelling and there/their/they're are peeves of mine also.
Reply 13 years ago
Or Australian and thus awesome.
Reply 13 years ago
Yes Australia is AWESOME!!
Reply 13 years ago
Yes! You are so my second best friend now!
Reply 13 years ago
Yay, you get 50 gold stars 1000 taco bell points AND a cherry on top!!!! But wait theres more, you can be my best friend 4eva that I met online and probably will never meet in real life, or for short B.F.F.T.I.M.O.L.A.P.W.N.M.I.R.L!!!!!
Reply 13 years ago
And we shall share virtual pancakes!!! +Ahundredbilliongoldstarstoyou. *Hug.*
Reply 13 years ago
Good grief...
(It's British and feeling old, by the way. The end of term approaches but slowly...)
Reply 13 years ago
I'm not excitable at all.
Reply 13 years ago
you lie color does not have a "u" in it and its called a trunk not a "boot"
Reply 13 years ago
There is no you in color. And I am enjoying the humour. 9921, I can't afford MS Word, but I do no how to spele and how two use a dickshuneerie.
Reply 13 years ago
solution to the problem of no MS Word?
OpenOffice
Reply 13 years ago
You have to be kidding me, i really hope that was sarcasm
Reply 13 years ago
No I was DEAD serious
Reply 13 years ago
Oh i know u were kidding i was talking about SacTownSue
Reply 13 years ago
oh, lol
Reply 13 years ago
lolz doowd sew d3w eye
Reply 13 years ago
and it's called a shopping trolley not a shopping cart, and it's called petrol not gasoline and colour has a u in it, and it's coffee not cawfy.
The differences are not worth squabbling over!
Reply 13 years ago
I don't think acer was squabbling, just partaking of humour.
And it's pavement, not sidewalk
Reply 13 years ago
Correct Kiteman, i was partaking in the humor. I think im going to eat some candy instead of sweets
Reply 13 years ago
Oh, Ok then shall we carry on? (:
Reply 13 years ago
depends some people use "u" some people don't use "u".
Reply 13 years ago
And some people use "u" when other people use "you"... .... that didn't sound very good ;-/
13 years ago
I love the firefox tool. Whenever I make a spelling error, it puts a line under it, and I change it. It is just a matter of laziness nowadays.
Reply 13 years ago
Right-click it and it gives the options and changes it automatically. soon we won't even have to move a mouse around. (:
Reply 13 years ago
My, how technology has changed our lives.
13 years ago
Spelling bad is one thing (that I can't stand); spelling bad and then apologizing in the same comment/Instructable/topic for the bad spelling is another. Take the time to use spell check. Personally, spelling can make a big difference to me whether I think an Instructable is quality or not.
13 years ago
Fo-shizzle.
Reply 13 years ago
No seriously, I try to get the spelling and grammar right in my instructables (typos notwithstanding) but sometimes in the forum posts it just doesn't seem worth it to go back and fix a typo that doesn't obscure the intended meaning. Not really sure why Squid Labs doesn't let us edit posts.
13 years ago
I would probalbly only spell check my instructable(s) everythinng else... WHO would be bothered.. apart from u kiteman
Reply 13 years ago
I'm bothered by it, and I'm not British or old.
Reply 13 years ago
Same here.
Reply 13 years ago
Everybody who isn't American? Everybody who cares about the way they express themselves? If you switch to Firefox as your browser (as I did recently), you'll find that, by installing the dictionary options, everything you type will be automatically spell-checked. (I don't know if it checks grammar, but even my six-year-old knows that you end a question with a question mark.)
13 years ago
Welcome to the internet. ...but I agree, forums etc. should have good spelling, channels/IRC, IM it doesn't matter to me.
Reply 13 years ago
right on, besides on aim I don't have time to spell right cause there is so many people (not to brag) lol
Reply 13 years ago
I hardly use IRC except for Linux support and IM doesn't interest me. :P Cam.SS correct.
13 years ago
Those who are saying that it is the Internet, and you shouldn't expect perfect spelling...You are not posting messages in your blog, or MySpace, or Xanga, or whatever the heck you use. You are adding to a website that has higher standards, and if you are intelligent enough to open an Internet browser, you are intelligent enough to use one of the many spell checks available to you. talkin lik dis iz fin fo da rst uv da nets, but Instructables has higher standards. And just so you know, even I'm not sure what that gobbledygook says.
13 years ago
Thecheese9921, i talk to you on AIM all the time, and you suck at spelling, so this instructable is more for you then us.
13 years ago
I've given up all hope in regards to people always typing properly online. I'd suggest you do the same. ;) When I was a mod on IGN I'd actually edit posts to do spell and grammar checking for people. They'd normally get very upset that I improved their posts so others could read them. :P