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How to keep the grammatically challenged off the Internet.
Happy Place ^ | August 7, 2011 | Matthew Baldwin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at happyplace.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: grammar; internet; internetgatekeeper
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To: martin_fierro

Heh heh heh lolololol


21 posted on 08/07/2011 12:55:32 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: Venturer

No! It is Hugh and Series!


22 posted on 08/07/2011 12:55:34 PM PDT by WayneH (STCM USN Retired - Winning the Future - WTF)
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To: glock rocks

yeah but what about “tars” ?


23 posted on 08/07/2011 12:56:16 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! I know i was kidding)
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To: EveningStar

People should of learned by now that if your grammar and spelling is bad, you sound like a looser.


24 posted on 08/07/2011 12:57:11 PM PDT by Maceman (Obama: As American as nasei goreng)
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To: WayneH

Very sirius.


25 posted on 08/07/2011 12:57:11 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: EveningStar
Just keep them busy....
26 posted on 08/07/2011 12:57:55 PM PDT by The Theophilus (Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
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To: EveningStar

27 posted on 08/07/2011 12:58:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: al baby

Best be rain tars, else ya’d be skiddin on all that floatin motor all.


28 posted on 08/07/2011 1:01:57 PM PDT by glock rocks (Primary is a VERB)
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To: glock rocks

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


29 posted on 08/07/2011 1:04:42 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! I know i was kidding)
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30 posted on 08/07/2011 1:05:26 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I can see 2012 from my house!" Jim Thompson, 7-16-2011)
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To: jrd; EveningStar

And you are a jackwagon


31 posted on 08/07/2011 1:09:44 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! I know i was kidding)
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To: EveningStar
This

"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!

32 posted on 08/07/2011 1:10:11 PM PDT by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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To: EveningStar

That was great! I loved it. Thanks.


33 posted on 08/07/2011 1:15:30 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: sirchtruth
I will reserve my inalienable unalienable right to retain and consult my Creative Spelling Dictionary during any prose related event.

Their, I fixed it.

34 posted on 08/07/2011 1:16:21 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: re_nortex

The FR speller not be fine.


35 posted on 08/07/2011 1:18:55 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: EveningStar
The site is defective. It told me the correct answer was "than"

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."


36 posted on 08/07/2011 1:29:17 PM PDT by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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To: Revolting cat!

Whom dat;


37 posted on 08/07/2011 1:30:48 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: ALPAPilot
Ya fixed it good!

Thanx!

38 posted on 08/07/2011 1:31:24 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free)
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To: EveningStar

“Your an idiot”

Prolly


39 posted on 08/07/2011 1:46:05 PM PDT by Magic Fingers
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To: EveningStar

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.


40 posted on 08/07/2011 2:12:37 PM PDT by livius
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