Posted on 04/03/2012 10:04:18 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The University’s journalism school has officially recognized the power of a spell check.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s spelling and grammar test, a requirement for all students in the school, will no longer include a spelling portion as administrators attempt to adapt to the changing industry.
The school will alter the test in the fall for the first time since the test’s creation in the 1970s
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytarheel.com ...
Spell check technology is pretty good but in my experience the grammer checkers are still just awful.
It is simply rude to correct people in casual conversation. Which is what this is.
Technology in the hands of gorillas promises to be amusing.
The school will altar the test in the fell for the fist time since the tests creationism in the 1970s
*snicker*
Tough call. It's like telling someone they have toilet paper on their shoe. Ignore it? Or save them from further embarrassment?
But the spelling police aren’t the really obnoxious types. It is the folks that respond to a political point they disagree with by LOLing a misspelling. Which is the equivalent of saying “You’re dumb and your point is dumb” which is intellectually lazy and a conversation bomb.
Have you noticed books also have so many errors in them? No more editing for misspellings.....it’s disgradeful!
Ah yes. The ones who can't spell, and never will. The "secretary" can fix the problem, because they're too important to bother.
In all fairness, I refuse to use spell check and make the occasional typo to give them a small opportunity to gloat. If they don't need to worry about proper spelling and grammar, neither should anyone else. The incompetent have rights too. Hell, they can even be president and handle the occasional corpse.
When you do that here it’s like standing up on the table and shouting HEY JERK YOU’VE GOT TOILET PAPER ON YOUR SHOE!!!”
If your intention is pure you would send a private message.
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 too 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.
Wut?
Mockery must be flawlwss?
The very reason I don't do it to fellow members. Professional writers are fair game.
I make plenty of mistakes on my own but nobody is paying me to write either.
That's "intellectually lazy" but sloppy spelling and grammar isn't?
You got that wright!
Grammer is overrayted.
The spell checker at work is on by default which is a pain because Herat, Afghanistan is always automatically changed to “Heart” in messages, documents and spreadsheets. That’s just one example. We’ve turned it off but I still see it from other people. How many other foreign words will get changed and no one notices?
Eye think ewe our wrong.
We know that the language is dynamic. Definitions morph and words are added every year due to widespread use (and misuse).
So you're correct. If we don't CALL OUT the LOOSE use of LOSE, then the language will become looser and our culture will be the loser.
Thin-skinned incompetents would say that.
Most of the private messages I receive are laced with profanity and megalomania. I ignore them all.
The few which are from competent people are never criticized in any way.
Selective on my part? Yes. My call.
I have noticed. It used to be that Editors got beaucoup dollars for doing their jobs. Now, they still get paid well but they are failing. They are probably far too distracted with the party scene, who's coming to dinner and which Merlot goes best with the new tangerine chicken arugala salad at Spago.
It also doesn't say much about Word Craft skills among the new crop of writers.
Two bee oar knot too be ...
You got it right. Some FReepers and others are quickly throwing away American culture by their disregard of American English. Noah Webster was a great patriotic American. He wrote his dictionary for the home, school and church. Some folks here trash the language and it’s usage, apparently not realizing that the language is one thing that can communicate American and it’s heritage. Then some rail against the use of ebonics. The use of standard American English unites us. Some FReepers fight against that.
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