solution to Spelling errors in this forum and other on line forms

My trusty Speak and spell has passed.....been disassembled and properly recycled

I did find Ispell

it is a spelling correction program, its free and open source,

I don't really mind simple spelling mistakes here, I know what is being said

I just wanted to offer this link for those who would like a spell checker for the forum or other online web forms.
it works great and works from the tool menu. at least in windows and UNIX/Linux.

the link?
http://ficus-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html

its free, its open source

This is a answer to resident.

but if i need to Phrase it as a question.

Does anyone need a spell check program for the forums? or even want one?
it this worthy of a sticky?

There are some stickies that are past there prime....

OH - as a note it don't do no good with grammar

just being a smartarse.. context and apostrophes seem to be beyond it too lol

Inc

Yes but the spelling in on spot...

Thanks for pointing that out. I think I'm in love.

crap. i hate being judged by my forum and chat verbage, grammar, puncuation and spelling. cripes, this isn't RL and we aren't getting paid. loosen up and go with the flow. half of us are snockered by the time the workday has ended and we get in here, and i can't see why it's such a big deal.

I was wondering if it not only does spelling checks but also does grammatical checks as well i hate grammatical errors its very annoying sometimes it seems like their posts go on and on and it gives me a head ache it certainly says a lot about a person who cant use proper punctuation theres a thread recently that i dont want to mention that i purposely avoid because of how many errors were in the original post its really something many people need to get better at before they all look like fools;

i no bradley hah i git the poynt of punctuation but i dont git the need to worrie abowt speling and gramerr n shortcutts n stuff lets jest git ulonng and knot werry abowt thoze uthr theengz

verbiage
punctuation
schnockered

My regular email program tries to fix things that I know are grammatically correct but not stylistically....um....."standard." I bow to no machine. Nor shall my friends. Carry on! If I get the meaning and it isn't mean I just move on. Unless I can poke fun at a fellow office product

it's wut i live for. poke away. just stay away from my orifices.

Totally agree, but I was shot down in flames by a nasty individual on these forums for expressing that once before. I have since noticed he's in conflict with a lot of peeps.

But yes I totally agree, if you understand the content and context of a post, a few typos or spelling errors are irrelevant. It's not a freaken board report.

If people want to use a spell check that's cool too.

ignore. carry on.

Seriously, amen to that. I check and correct spelling and typos all day. If someone thinks i'm going to do it while posting in a forum, they'd be wrong. unless, as you said, it affected the context.

can you please convert? i want to marry you.

If you use FF3, spell checking is available at Tools / Options / Advanced / General tab, "Check my spelling as I type."

yea use firefox its

A) faster
B) doesn't let spy ware infest your computer just cause you typed in mirosoft.com
C) automatically blocks most pop ups (took ie almost 4 years to figure this out)
D) has a search bar that you can set to pretty much anything (including the wiki)
E) has inline spell check
F) doesn't make you install yet another memory leak next to your clock!

and oh yea, if i just type secondlife in the url box it doesnt take me to the most useless search function ever (live?) it just finds the page and moves on

true for most things, but doesn't work in these forums.

Spell checking works for me in this forum using Firefox 2, Firefox 3, and Firefox based Flock. It's a Windows XP system. There's a red underline under XP as I'm entering this text right now.

Maybe you have an add-on that conflicts or an old version of Firefox.

yep FF worked for me 2.

here I thought I was great with my spelling and all my typos in world was a SL glitch.

sniff sniff reaches for a tisue I am smart I am I swear it

Also, for IE7, the IE7Pro add-on does spell checking, and is working in this forum as I type. They don't have IE7Pro in the dictionary. It doesn't seem quite as good as FF's built-in. The red lines can go away while the word is still spelled wrong.

"The Spell Checked Poem"
*Author unknown*

I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pour o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of non eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware four pea seas.
And why I brake in two averse
By righting want too pleas.

still words wrong in the if they Properly spelled are nothing mean order.

Noscitur a sociis, my dear Avacea. Noscitur a sociis.

i use FF2 and it does not spell check for me in this forum. works in other forums though.

Perhaps it's time to switch to the current version of Firefox.

Assuming you have the memory to spare. I stopped using firefox when I looked at task manager the other day and saw that firefox had bloated to a massive 400mb of memory! That's as much as Secondlife itself was using.

No offense to the OP, but if someone really cared about spelling, they'd have one of the several spell check software applications out there. While I can appreciate and admittedly am positively affected by someone who can convey their thoughts in complete phrases with proper punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar, I have to agree with a few others here... this is largely a social forum and a great many won't be arsed to correct their typos after a long day of work. People are here to unwind and why should they, good and intelligent people, be made to feel unwelcome?

However, having said that, I think it's rather obvious to discern between someone who is ESL, tired, lazy or a complete and genuine illiterate idiot (although this may take several posts by said person to determine). And really... what does it matter?

If the illiterate and idiotic wish to post, how are their needs any less important than a highly literate individual capable of composing in utter compliance with the latest grammar rules (including that nasty new one where possessive plurals are now to be written as s's).

If'n someone wants ta spell good, theyll use a proggie ta help 'em if they needs it.

And finally, a number of people use their SL character voices here in the forum too (self included sometimes), which is not necessarily a reflection of what one is capable of when expressing oneself in a textual medium. I like the "weeeeeeeeee" and "okie" and "thankie" verbiage of my SL personae character. If someone disregards the rest of my chatter and focuses only on the playful expressions I oft times uses, then I really don't think their opinion will carry that much weight with me either.

Signed,
a kitty who kin reed