Point of Order -- Part Trois
 

A real estate agent is not necessarily a Realtor. The name Realtor is a registered trademark of the National Association of Realtors and can only be used legally by members of the organization. As a registered trademark it is always capitalized.

No rain, not grumpy, just saying.

I didn't know that P.

OK YOUSE GUYS , KNOCK IT OFF , SOME OF USENS ARE VERY SIN SET IVE..


fUMAR

With very sincere respect to the English majors.
 

I know that I spelled more correctly more often when I was in my prime. I know that I was more careful of my grammar.

I love to read what everyone writes here even if some of us would get points off for perfect inflection and syntax. (Wait, I have to go to dictionary.com to see if those are the right words.) I guess I like the gist of things more than perfectly presented ideas, but I like those too. I like hearing the wisdom and debates that flow back and forth from you, my peers. I like to hear your ideas and views. I like to read it in your way.

And although sometimes I write right...sometimes I write wrong.

Please still like me Russ.

hindsight
 

Sadly,Gracie, I wish I, too, had been more careful of both my grammers. They are no longer with us.

I miss my grammer.

Thanks for reading my posts despite the bad spelling. I would like to thank the person who invented spell check. I have dyslexia and only see the first and last couple of letters of a word so spelling is a real problem. I am sorry that I, sometimes post without spellchecking in word and pasteing it in, resulting in very bad spelling.

What makes me feel stupid is when I try to understand people who use what I call tribal language. Words and phrases that are only used in certain industries or areas. (Hubby uses engineering areospace languange all the time, one of his few flaws.)

Thank you, Gracie. Sometimes I agree with you even more than I agree with me. No wonder you're a sage!

If you use Firefox version 3+ then the spell check is built right in as you type. Try it.

Russ

I don't think that is in question GG!

Where spell check is concerned, you gotta remember -- use it but do not trust it. Mistakes in writing can happen to anybody. And it really is OK. Communication is what it's really about. (I think I just ended that sentence with a preposition. And I don't care.)

Here's a little rhyme that makes the spell check point in a fun way. (And when in the heck did 'fun' become an adjective? It sure wasn't when I was in high school.) Anyway, this little rhyme has been floating around for a while. I did not write it.

Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques for my revue,
Mist steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word,
And wait four it two say,
Weather I am wrong oar write,
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore to long,
And eye can put the error rite,
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am sure your pleased to no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

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Boomer

P.S. -- I just looked up 'fun' on dictionary.com and saw that it actually had come into usage as an adjective by the time I was in high school. Who knew? Oh well, Mark Twain supposedly said, "If the world is coming to an end, go to Cincinnati. Everything there happens 15 years later." -- or he might have said "20 years" or he might not have really said such a thing, at all. Oh well. I digress.

Spelilng is oevr rtaed. Stduies have fuond that if the frist and last letetrs
are proper, msot poeple can undrestnad setnences jst fnie. Our haeds
intepret the wrods for us.

The Voices in my head
 

After reading this whole thread, and replies, it reminds me of some of the late night arguments with 'the voices in my head' (which I usually lose).:loco: I love TOTV! Makes me feel like I'm already in TV. Fortunately, won't have to wait much longer, closing 4/29. Counting down. I think most english majors have suffered cardiac arrests after getting text messages from today's kids anyway. As far as spell checkers go, I think they are pretty useless unless they are checking context too. The backspace key does me more good than a spell-checker. Don't have all that white-out on the screen anymore. All I need now is for my shoulder to co-operate so I can properly swing a club. Hope to see y'all soon.:wave:

Enjoying this thread
 

A word to Gracie...I am so glad to hear that someone else has problems remembering all the correct grammar we were taught. I used to love it so...

To Boomer ...if only you could straighten out lye, lay, lain, laid....

I sometimes help with ESL classes and am ashamed of what I have forgotten.

Not me
 

Im not going hear nor their.

So they're.