Spellcheck on boards.ie

User45701

I was thinking would it be that hard to place a spell check at the bottom of your post that you are about to post

Ive seen them on other boards. It gives you the option to spell check before you click post. I would say it would be usefull here. I cant spell and i have senn other people camplaining about other people not spelling.

I would say it would be very usefull and probbley very easy to implement

Puck

We used to have a spellchecker a couple of years ago I believe, but I think the crowd that supplied the service started charging for it so it was dropped.

Personally I don't mind the odd spelling mistake or typo in people's posts. It's people that don't even seem to make the slightest effort to make their posts coherent at all that bug me. They just seem to bash at the keyboard and click submit.

Don't get me started on txt spk.:rolleyes:

Ryaner

I'd def appriciate a spell checker cause my spelling aint the best espec late at night. I'm sure there are other free alternatives available but I agree it's the people who seem to purposly misspell words and dont try that are the main problem

ykt0di9url7bc3

but what about the Grammer Police!*



*anal retentive twats

Ragamuffin

A spell checker would be good

User45701

I find that i do tend to rush my posts quite allot. im always in a hurry, unless im bored like now running a nortan virus check.

oeNeo

I agree. Some people on boards ned this reel good.

Mr E

Originally posted by User45701
I find that i do tend to rush my posts quite allot. im always in a hurry, unless im bored like now running a nortan virus check.

Even when you're not in a hurry, you've made 2 spelling mistakes.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

How about a spelling mod? Someone who can fix spelling mistakes in topic titles.... (one of my pet hates!)

- Dave.

phaxx

Originally posted by TmB
How about a spelling mod? Someone who can fix spelling mistakes in topic titles.... (one of my pet hates!)

- Dave.

Are you actually suggesting we have a group of Spelling Nazis?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i do think that if a spellchecking thing was implemented on boards..people would just get very very lazy with their typing because they know the computer will do it for them..

it will be a disaster for typing skills all over the country

echomadman

http://www.spellcheck.net/

lazy bastards,

User45701

That solves that.

Dont be at yourself

Originally posted by SearrarD
but what about the Grammer Police!*

Grammar Police.

I'll just get my coat.

ykt0di9url7bc3

back in the car you!

Victor

Originally posted by TmB
How about a spelling mod? Someone who can fix spelling mistakes in topic titles.... (one of my pet hates!)

The person who starts the thread can edit the title, just PM them.

mike65

Whos' spelling standard would we use? I bet we'd end up using an American checker.

Mike.

phaxx

Over my cold blue-colored dead body.

WizZard

"supercalafragilisticexpialodocious" is misspelled.
Here are some suggestions:

superciliary

That spellcheck site doesn't have a good dictionary! I know thats a word...

On topic, here is a good discussion of a free spellchecker thats easily incorporated into a vBulletin forum.

Although I'd imagine if implemented here it would be underused, as spellchecking would take a long time on a 56k connection, and most of Ireland are still using those...

Funky

I'm completely against this, people should make the effort to spell / learn how to spell, it'll be better for them in the long run and make them stop being such lazy bastards!

egan007

oh my god im back at school
You don't see nokia putting spell checkers on phones.
The idea of forums is to get messages across

fi i wroet leik tihs u wud stlil geddit

Keep spellcheckers for essays and emails to the boss.....

Crash

if you wrote like that i would automatically categorise you as an idiot. no offence tbh its just my automatic text speak blockage.

egan007

my point is proved
you understud what it said -
in this case the message is of greater importance than the medium in which it is carried

scojones

A spellcheck on boards would be as useful as a bottomless bucket.

Dustaz

Originally posted by egan007
oh my god im back at school
You don't see nokia putting spell checkers on phones.
The idea of forums is to get messages across

Actually, nokia ,and any phone that has predictive text, DO have a spell checker. I guess ur 1 of d ppl hu tp lk dis on phns. w/e ur gy den.

The idea of forums is to get the message across, not torture people.

egan007

Originally posted by Dustaz
Actually, nokia ,and any phone that has predictive text, DO have a spell checker. I guess ur 1 of d ppl hu tp lk dis on phns. w/e ur gy den.

The idea of forums is to get the message across, not torture people.

It's amazing how pretentious people can sound on forums

I have predective text and don't abbreviate as you have shown that you are more than capable of. However you (and im not surprised) have completely missed my point

ixoy

Spellchecker? It's a superb idea. Frankly, I find some of the attempts at spelling here abhorrent. Grammar seems like a mythical concept. I can appreciate that some people are in a rush but, for crying out loud, is the concept of "your" and "you're" that difficult? It's not like we're boldly debating the use of the split infitive!

It's fine to have a few mistakes here and there, but half the posts here would fail even the most rudimentary of first class tests. It's all well and good saying it's the "message not the medium", but the medium itself speaks about your general ability to form coherent thoughts/arguments. It's particularly noticable in debating threads, but I'd like to see the option of "purer" posts throughout all the various boards.

Oh and, for what it's worth, I really do endure grammar police in my line of work and, as the months go by, I'm less tolerant of the dismissive attitude some posters seem to have towards the written word. Bring it on.

Dustaz

Originally posted by egan007
It's amazing how pretentious people can sound on forums

I have predective text and don't abbreviate as you have shown that you are more than capable of. However you (and im not surprised) have completely missed my point

Your point was twofold. Firstly that nokia phones dont have a spellchecker. They do.

Secondly that it doesnt matter how you communicate your idea, as long as you get it across. However, if that idea is communicated so badly as to be unreadable, then it will not get across. Another side effect (as demonstrated by crash) is that people will just not bother reading your post, so your point has noone to get across to. Is that so hard to understand?

Anything else?

scojones

Originally posted by Dustaz

Anything else?

Yesh. Nice hat mr clawz

Mossy Monk

how many would actually go to the bother of using one if one was added

Ryaner

I'd make use of it espec late at night. But I think the people who cant spell at all will just not bother as it will be too much hassle.

ixoy

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
how many would actually go to the bother of using one if one was added

Not enough probably How about we all pay a small fee to have someone proof read every post and edit all the major grammar and spelling mistakes? Or am I taking my pedanticism too far?

Capt'n Midnight

Spell Chequer

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 two 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.

DRakE

Get one, so i dont have to read garbage from User again.

Ta.

User45701

Try the ignore button Drake
also if u notice i was the 1 who sugested the spell check

The Muppet

Hi,

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it

deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod

are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and

lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a

total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey

lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

Teh Mueppt

User45701

Very interesting i was able to read that with no problem the only wrd i even had to think about for more than a second was rset

Ryaner

Yeah but the main problem with the people who make no attempt to spell is just that. If they had the first and last letters in place with the rest just mixed around we'd all be able read what they said but the messages tend to be quite unreadable at times.

Funky

How about learning to spell? And take your time while typing until you're GOOD?

ixoy

Originally posted by Funky
How about learning to spell? And take your time while typing until you're GOOD?

I'd be worried if they didn't know how to spell already. All school kids surely learn the likes of: it's/its, their/they're, your/you're, et cetera. It should generally be something you don't have to think about. I mean we're not talking about getting perfect posts, or anything similiar. I don't really care if you say: "John and me went to the Boards Beer Bash" instead of "John and I" because subject/verb agreement can be tricky.

Seriously, how difficult is it to glance over a post for thirty seconds before hitting the Submit Reply button? Iron out any glaring errors? It would ease my poor soul and, judging by this thread, calm other posters as well...

DeVore

technically an unfeasibly large amount of work.... theres no Enable Spelling Checker option in the system. I'm not coding it in for people who wont use it anyway.

Interesting debate all the same...

DeV.

The Muppet

User 45701 if you're using windoz, Ispell is a handy freeware spellchecking proggy that imbeds into Internet explorer. Its available here .

rymus

How about an intoxication translator? Handy for those drunken posts that make very little or no sense in the morning.

Winters

People seem to be too lazy to either:

• Open Microsoft Word [or other text editors] and check the spelling there
• Google for an online spelling tool and check it there
• Ask users (or "real people") in MSN, IRC, Yahoo! etc. how to spell the word

I'd be against putting on it. You must do the work for yourself children, Boards.ie cannot be there to do everything for you. I do occasionally open word if I cannot get the word spelt correctly. Or if I cannot think of a word I use the "real people" option, it can be spooky talking to these "real people" but it does get easier with time.

Is there not going to be something in VB3 about spell checker or am I thinking of something else? It might just be the enhanced input thingy.

Victor

Originally posted by rymus
How about an intoxication translator? Handy for those drunken posts that make very little or no sense in the morning.

Based on what some people post when drunk, disabling [url] and [img]tags would be more important. [/img][/url]