Also, many of you destroy the English language! Is it lazyness or were you sleeping in school?
2007-10-11 02:39:37 · 6 answers · asked by maur911 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
mmm.. is it only me? I don't see the button any more (I am using Opera. Would that have to do with it?).
Anyway... I never used it. It could let me know I typed "your", but it will never tell me "Hey, you, idiot! You mean YOU'RE!!". so.. if you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"... you are still lost even if using the button.
English is not my native. So any mistake (typo or grammatical), is my fault.
2007-10-11 02:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by kamelåså 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some are just lazy. But that's why they have that button. So if you didn't pay attention in school you do look stupid you can check and make sure everything is correct. People just seem to choose not to use it. It don't take much to move the mouse over the the spell check and click! It drives me nuts too. I want to understand what I am reading I don't want to have to guess. I want to understand what I am giving advice about and what advice someone is giving me. I understand if you are learning the language and still don't have it down that's fine but if you live here and have spoke English all your life start using spell check!!!!!!!
2007-10-11 02:51:43 · answer #2 · answered by ???? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of things spring to mind.
First that misspellings don't ultimately hinder your ability to understand my message even if it degrades your perception of me.
Two, the Internet has become a medium of casual communication so jargon, slang, excessive abbreviations and such are the norm which spell check rejects.
Three, yeah the laziness thing and not caring so much that other people are bothered by a few misspelled words.
If you still answer the question even though it irritated you, pragmatically it doesn't matter to the writer.
2007-10-11 02:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Cinder 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a very valid point.
I would hope though that Yahoo will improve the Check Spelling" feature. it does not pick up many errors nor dies it often give teh appropriate choices.
2007-10-11 03:02:19 · answer #4 · answered by DrIG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been wondering the same thing. Perhaps everyone is in such a hurry... or maybe it really is
"laziness"
2007-10-11 02:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by inmyopinion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they must be under a bad spell.
2007-10-11 02:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋