Muppet grammar grinch creeps into class

[mimitabby]

I really DO know that bad spelling and/or grammar is not a sign of poor intelligence. But the confusion of homophones here seems to be getting worse (rode/road, pedal/peddle). It does bug me. I admit it. I still read everything, though. I just wonder if some people write like that at work, or is it because this is a more casual usage situation. Some errors are so consistent over many posts, that I know they are not typos. I make many of those myself, but my browser (Safari) picks them up. Like I tell my students, "Those little red and green lines mean something!"

ah, the spell checker.
Someone I know wrote a short story about someone named Smitty. It's dramatic and sad. Well, somehow the spell checker kicked in and changed some of the Smittys to Smutty. I couldn't help but laugh out loud, as he fixed some of them but not others....

[trickytiger]

ah, the spell checker.
Someone I know wrote a short story about someone named Smitty. It's dramatic and sad. Well, somehow the spell checker kicked in and changed some of the Smittys to Smutty. I couldn't help but laugh out loud, as he fixed some of them but not others....

Oh, you mean like the time I wrote a paper about relative plate motions for a geology class in college, and the dang spell-checker changed every "subduction zone" to "seduction zone" and "orogeny" to "erogeny" (which I failed to notice)? (Gives a new meaning to "thrust fault!")

My prof got a good laugh out of that.

[mimitabby]

Oh, you mean like the time I wrote a paper about relative plate motions for a geology class in college, and the dang spell-checker changed every "subduction zone" to "seduction zone" and "orogeny" to "erogeny" (which I failed to notice)? (Gives a new meaning to "thrust fault!")

My prof got a good laugh out of that.

this is way better than Smutty.

and Possegal, I used to put odd things in work reports I wrote to make sure my lead was reading them.
If he didn't catch them the first time I would tell him he'd better check again.

[Trek420]

That's it. I can know longer post to TE from work. There's know Mozilla hear.

[GLC1968]

I admit that I cannot spell. I have always been missing that gene so I apologize ahead of time for my mistakes as they are bound to happen (spell check or not). That said, I do my best.

I will say that I find things like road/rode and peddle/pedal actually highly distracting when I'm reading a post. I also bristle at the use of 'alot'. Of course, neither of these things really compare to my utter hatred for the non-word 'prolly'. I actually used to work with people who honestly thought that prolly was a word. These were people with advanced degrees in engineering, no less. Ugh.

[mimitabby]

. Of course, neither of these things really compare to my utter hatred for the non-word 'prolly'. I actually used to work with people who honestly thought that prolly was a word. These were people with advanced degrees in engineering, no less. Ugh.

Speaking of non-words, how about welp? Is that like a dog ?
Where did it come from?

[Crankin]

When we first moved back to Massachusetts one of my sons, who was 8, came home and insisted that the word drawer (like dresser drawer) was spelled draw. I was furious, because I knew he had picked this up at school, most likely from a teacher (she had sent something home with this spelling). I had worked so hard to lose all traces of my accent when I moved away and I made sure my kids kept their flat little midwest accents that they got from being born in AZ. I mean, I check every single piece of paper or e mail that goes out to parents. So, I think that some people really *do* think that things like "prolly" and "draw" are real. It depends where you live. I have parents, not much younger than me send me notes with "u" for you. People really don't see what's wrong with this.
We are a dying breed.