Your guide to Forum Speak!

[Bacardi Jim]

Bragging rights!  Those are important!

They are the MOST important rights.  Ask LR.

[Ann in Arlington]

Jim, et al:

So, are you all like me in that, when you pick up a menu in a restaurant or a flyer in a store, your eye automatically goes to the one word in the whole thing that's misspelled? 

Ann

[chynared21]

Jim, et al:

So, are you all like me in that, when you pick up a menu in a restaurant or a flyer in a store, your eye automatically goes to the one word in the whole thing that's misspelled? 

Ann

I sure do!!! This week one of the class moms sent in a party letter that is supposed to be a surprise daddy shower for her son's teacher. I read it and honed in on "suppling" instead of "supplying". Doesn't anyone use spell checker anymore??? Anyhow, the letter is going out that way as she only wanted it approved for it's content but I had to laugh when I showed it to one of the other girls in the office...I said, "She's shouting at everyone!" Her entire letter was in capital letters 

I completely understand where you're coming from Jim. For the life of me I can't understand/read the texting shortcuts that teens make these days! I will always reply as if I'm replying to a letter...a big bonus of having an iPhone is the Qwerty keyboard :-))) Let's not forget that I'm from the age of non-texting cell phones the size of a brick 

[Eclectic Reader]

This is slightly different, but at first I thought you were referring to 'leet' - also known as leet-speak, or l33t. It's the use of keyboard characters and symbols to approximate the shape of traditional alphabet characters, and is a sort of code used by gamers and texters.  

Here's an example:

\/\/3Lc()M3 2 |<|N|)L3|30^R|)S

I'll let you play with decoding that.  

lol.  Thanks for the welcome.    To be honest, if I saw that somewhere, I would just see it as a "mathematical forumla" for something, because that's sort of what it looks like to me.

[Eclectic Reader]

Jim, et al:

So, are you all like me in that, when you pick up a menu in a restaurant or a flyer in a store, your eye automatically goes to the one word in the whole thing that's misspelled? 

Ann

Yep.  In fact, I'm the person at work everyone comes to AFTER putting their documents through spell check in order for me to give "the final spell check".  Misspelled words just seem to literally "jump off" the page at me. 

[Kirstin]

Jim, et al:

So, are you all like me in that, when you pick up a menu in a restaurant or a flyer in a store, your eye automatically goes to the one word in the whole thing that's misspelled? 

Ann

YES!!   I see them automatically as if they are calling out to me.   Doesn't stop me from making my own typos though.  ha ha   - I wish the boards had a spell check.  (and if they have got one, that someone would show me where it is!!)

[Leslie]

The forum does have a spell-check feature. If you misspell a word, it will be lightly underlined in red. Right click on the word and it will show you a choice of properly spelled words.

To turn the feature on, right click with your mouse. It will bring up a list of options...choose Check Spelling.

[admin]

Leslie is right - that is actually a browser feature. I have also added a 'Spell Check' button to the posts page.

[Kirstin]

The forum does have a spell-check feature. If you misspell a word, it will be lightly underlined in red. Right click on the word and it will show you a choice of properly spelled words.

To turn the feature on, right click with your mouse. It will bring up a list of options...choose Check Spelling.

Holy cow batgirl!  that is awesome!

OK, in testing this feature, I spelled awesome wrong and no red line.  I have to right click everytime but that's OK - at least I know how to do it now!!

[Bacardi Jim]

I can forgive misspellings and typos.  It's grammatical errors of ignorance that drive me up the wall.  The overload of improper apostrophes makes me want to tear my hair out and scream from the rooftop.

[Sailor]

oh my goodness...a whole forum about my writting skills!!!  yikes.  I am just happy when I write and someone figures it out enough to give a reply back.  I guess my English grammar and punctuation are cryptic and atrocious to scholars.  My sister is ALWAYS correcting my English skills...gee, just because she is the teacher in the family.  I don't have to know how to write...I am a hair stylist.  As long as you look AWESOME and you love the 'miracle' I have transformed you into, I have done/did my job.  Laughing Out Loud   spell check: 4 errors corrected.

[Bacardi Jim]

oh my goodness...a whole forum about my writting skills!!!  yikes.  I am just happy when I write and someone figures it out enough to give a reply back.  I guess my English grammar and punctuation are cryptic and atrocious to scholars.  My sister is ALWAYS correcting my English skills...gee, just because she is the teacher in the family.  I don't have to know how to write...I am a hair stylist.  As long as you look AWESOME and you love the 'miracle' I have transformed you into, I have done/did my job.  Laughing Out Loud   spell check: 4 errors corrected.

And now you know why you aren't our new Vice-President.

[Teninx]

"and, my favorite:

WSHWYAT - We Should Have Warned You About Teninx"

Sure, go ahead and encourage me. You know how I thrive on notoriety!

[Harvey]

^ Just testing your sense of humor. Ha!

[Angela]

I can forgive misspellings and typos.  It's grammatical errors of ignorance that drive me up the wall.  The overload of improper apostrophes makes me want to tear my hair out and scream from the rooftop.

YES!!   I see them automatically as if they are calling out to me.   Doesn't stop me from making my own typos though.  ha ha   - I wish the boards had a spell check.  (and if they have got one, that someone would show me where it is!!)

I have more of a problem with grammer than spelling, but I tend to drive myself crazy when I send off an email or post to a board and then discover after the fact that I made an error myself! Glad to know there is a spell check feature. This will stop me from going back and correcting my mistakes after posting.  Which is another feature I love (modify)... If only I would use the preview button first sometimes. 

[Angela]

The forum does have a spell-check feature. If you misspell a word, it will be lightly underlined in red. Right click on the word and it will show you a choice of properly spelled words.

To turn the feature on, right click with your mouse. It will bring up a list of options...choose Check Spelling.

I tried that and the menu you show does not show up for me. I only get the IE menu.

[Bacardi Jim]

I have more of a problem with grammer than spelling...

*feasts on the irony*

[Leslie]

I tried that and the menu you show does not show up for me. I only get the IE menu.

Yes, my first post was a little bit wrong. It appears that version of spell check is a Firefox feature, not IE. Sorry about that...

But Harvey enabled spellcheck in the forum, so on every post you should see this, now:




Hope that helps and sorry for the confusion!

L

[Angela]

*feasts on the irony*

LOL... darn... you caught me! LOL

[Bacardi Jim]

LOL... darn... you caught me! LOL

And fed well.

It's my way.

[Sailor]

And now you know why you aren't our new Vice-President.

I don't get it but I "KNOW" there is a joke in here...

[Harvey]

A reference to his (Biden's) verbosity, I believe.

/attempts to keep thread from derailing politically

[Bacardi Jim]

A reference to his (Biden's) verbosity, I believe.

/attempts to keep thread from derailing politically

Nooooo..... wrong VP candidate.  Wrong joke.

[Kirstin]

  I don't have to know how to write...I am a hair stylist.  As long as you look AWESOME and you love the 'miracle' I have transformed you into, I have done/did my job.  

Hey!  I am in desperate need of a haircut - I need you!!

[Angela]

Hey!  I am in desperate need of a haircut - I need you!!

me, too!!! After we go "sightseeing" at Octochick's we can go to sailor's for haircuts!