Posted on 08/07/2011 12:36:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
If the atrocious illiteracy of the average Internet commenter has ever driven you to anger, frustration, or violent homicidal thoughts, you'll love this series of Internet CAPTCHAs, created by Matthew Baldwin. By requiring you to discern from various sets of simple but somehow commonly mistaken words just to be allowed online, these CAPTCHAs would rapidly rid the web of phrases like "Your an idiot" and "I'm definately getting Nickelback tickets." We dream of a day when this Internet entrance exam is mandatory, creating a grammatically sound, idiot-free online experience for the four of us who actually pass it. Below are several of the other word options you might encounter when taking it, followed by the screen that greets you if you fail.
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Heh heh heh lolololol
No! It is Hugh and Series!
yeah but what about “tars” ?
People should of learned by now that if your grammar and spelling is bad, you sound like a looser.
Very sirius.
Best be rain tars, else ya’d be skiddin on all that floatin motor all.
No kidding went out to the garage at the red flag to hose it out busted the garden hose needless to say i tossed in the trash came back in and made nachos
And you are a jackwagon
"I'm definately getting Nickelback tickets."
is definitely misspelled. Nowadays, people are typing
"I am defiantly getting Nickelback tickets",
and while a taste for Nickelback is certainly something about which one would naturally be defensive, it's actually a spell check problem. When people try to spell "definitely" as "definitaly", spellcheck tells them that it looks like they're trying to spell definatly-and since people nowadays can't 'sound out' words, they just blindly accept that spelling. Drives me nuts!
That was great! I loved it. Thanks.
Their, I fixed it.
The FR speller not be fine.
| Hello, and thank you for your interest in The Internet. Please type the correct sequence of characters into the field below.  "I'd rather be a Democrat ___________ a Republican." |
Whom dat;
Thanx!
“Your an idiot”
Prolly
My grammar, spelling and syntax are quite good, but I make scads of typos when I’m typing or dictating my posts.
In any case, who the heck cares? I know what people mean, and that’s the important thing.
My feeling is that if you want to correct somebody’s spelling (so that they don’t make the same mistake again and subject themselves to criticism from nitpickers), just write something to them using the word with its proper spelling. Or just ignore it.
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