The american spell checker depreciation thread

Yeah. That's me. Tootive.

 

See,,this is where I had assumed you were laughing about there being a spell checker on HF. My bad.

So much for tootive,,

 

I've wondered that myself. I think both versions of a given word should be flagged separately from misspellings... underline them in blue or green and don't simply label them as an error.

I do realize the origins of the language and while I use it in the manner that was taught to me I appreciate the differences and look at my own usage as a step away from an original, more pure form. I often wonder if British and Canadian folks cringe at my spellings the same way I cringe when I see "rediculous".

 

I use these smileys: :rofl: and :smilielol5: in 50% of my posts.

I am usually being serious. But I always laugh.

 

I kind of hate asking procedural questions, but just in this case,,

where in the heck ARE those smileys? I don't see those available in the posting window.

 

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Danke

 

Ahh yes I get what odon means now.

 

In general or something specific?

 

General:

-odon

suff.

An animal having a specified kind of teeth: sphenodon.

[New Latin, from Greek odōn, tooth.]

 

- LauraMay

Person.

Erm, a nice bird from across the water.

[New Oxford English Dictionary (very new).]

 

A whole lot of people who post on this site could really really use a spell-checker.

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

If you have Firefox, there you go, you whiner. There's Australian, British, South American, and American English on there.

 

Haha, I just went to the quick reply, right clicked, found my spell checker and the ability to download more, and ding! There it was! Amazing. lol I want to download the Spanish one on here, but I'm pretty sure my roommmate would be pissed if it was trying to make him type in Spanish.

 

Thought as much.

Just do it!

 

oooooh I coulda just done all that, yea yeah aye, but then I wouldn't have been able to create a bit of a drama and moan about it all on here.

 

you could use UK spellcheck

Sometimes, when I use spellcheck, I do. but, usually, it's just wild west.

 

It turns my Canadian writing into some sort of strange American dialect

 

Google Chrome ftmfw. Why don't you right click the underlined correctly spelled word and click "Add to Dictionary"?

I'm american, but i really like how Europeans spell.