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This blog results from a combination of my passion for writing and my random thought processes. From life experiences to pet peeves to witty quips to serious thoughts to absolutely randomness, this blog covers a wide array of topics. Some blog posts may cause you to think while others may cause you to laugh. My only hope is that you will be entertained. Feel free to leave me feedback or comments.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

splel check

Spell check certainly has it's place. I feel that some people should use it more regularly. I hate reading things and seeing like a million spelling errors. Don't get me wrong, I make mistakes as well and mistakes are expected from us. After all, "To err is human." What I'm talking about, however, are the people who make more errors in their spelling than they spell words correctly. Just click the old spell check button and do your best to eliminate as many mistakes as you can. That way, I only have to sift through a few of them, which is no big deal. However, that the red squiggly line annoys me, especially when I know I've spelled a word accurately. Just because it doesn't know the word or person's name I entered, it assumes I am wrong. It is probably one of the most arrogant computer helps in existence today. The green squiggly can be just as annoying. It tells me I used a fragmented sentence. Then it doesn't even give me a recommendation for how to fix my fragment. It just tells me to consider revising. If I thought it was a fragment in the first place, I wouldn't have written it, so clearly I am not as in tune with the rules of fragmented sentences as I thought. The point is, however, that I will not likely be able to correct it. And what more annoying than this is that if you tell the stupid thing to ignore your error and then go back later to change something within the same sentence, the squiggly lines which had gone away now reappear. Am I alone on this? Am I the only one that wants to punch the squiggly lines sometimes? Then again, where might I be without it? I was told no misspellings were found in this post. I hope that it was correct.

3 comments:

Cassidy :) said...

Hi. I hate spell check, but my mom makes me use it. Sometimes when I do the google search i spell it wrong and, BAM!, I get somethin' I don't want.

Lillian said...

Spell check is my friend. So is grammer check. I have a nasty habit of writing fragment sentences and split infinitives (the most famous of these is "to boldly go..." it should be "to go boldly...").

My mother was strong in editing/proof reading...she was my spell check before MS Word!!

Leah P said...

I too am frustrated by the squiggly lines and would love to punch them as well.