how can so many people misspell so many words when they have spelling check at their fingertips?

Answer 1

They don't care. They think it's funny.

Answer 2

It is called spell check, but then the spell check program would not catch that since spelling is a word.

I think there is a lot of misspelling because a lot of folks aren't real good typists, and a lot of the most recent generations are used to talking on line with abbreviations, etc.

Answer 3

It's called 'check spelling' and many people are thinking more about their question and are simply typing too fast, or are using 'internet text slang' and they do want answers, and fast so they hit the 'submit' button sooner than someone who 'knows' how truly FAST the Internet is, and take the time to write their questions correctly. GIVE THEM A BREAK. I've got an advanced degree, and I still sometimes 'forget' to use the 'check spelling' before I hit submit ...we are all JUST HUMAN, after all.

Answer 4

No one has picked up on the fact that your sentence contains a mispelled word...........it is NOT miSSpell, there's only one s
All of you must now stand in a corner for 10 minutes for missing this.........it jumped off the page at me.

The Asker must give me the 10 points for finding this or suffer the YA curse...........

There's an old idiom which says:

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

In our efforts to improve ourselves, we often set in motion the kinds of aids such as the subject you've asked about. But in doing so, are we really helping? Or have we taken yet another step toward validating carelessness and making it that much more acceptable to stop learning? When we rely on 'tools' to simplify what we failed to learn before, what we're really doing is saying, it's okay, be lazy, don't learn.

Just a further slide down the slippery slope. Nearly half of the students in the USA are not finishing high school. Why bother? All of the answers to life can be Googled just like much of the information on Yahoo Answers.

And for those who do complete high school and college, they're heavily in debt.............so have we helped them?

Answer 5

Ann Owed two the Spelling Checker

(original source unknown)

This entire poem ran through a spelling checker (Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh) without a single mistake being caught:

Eye have a spelling checker
It came with my Pea Sea
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 weight
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two read,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And it were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun 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.

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Spelling checkers can't do it all for you. People still need to be educated in grammar and usage.

Answer 6

look, some of us just don't have the patience for it, 'cause if we misspell something 'cause we're typing too fast and it's not that bad, we just leave it. most people are at lest inteligett enoghu ot figrue ti uot, unscramble a few letters. or if we have to answer a question that's going to be resolved in a couple of minutes.

Answer 7

It is amazing! Are people getting lazy or do they just not care? Spell check is a great tool, if it's used.

Answer 8

Um, because they don't use the spell check - or maybe English is not their first language. Can't you be a little more tolorant?

Answer 9

I thought it was called spell check :)

Answer 10

some people do it on purpose....which is stupid. I don't usually on things like this because i don't think it's worth it because i usually get words pretty close

Answer 11

I think they just get impatient, forget or don't know about it. I agree. Doesn't look very good for them