[Pturner]

Originally Posted by Russ_Boston

You all know my other beefs (Sumter not Sumpter for example)

I have one more forum shorthand note for newbies: We like to use the abbreviation TV for THE VILLAGES. It is not TV's. The 's' is already in the word - don't add another one And don't lowercase it. That would mean television.

Guess I'm just grumpy with this new round of rain!!!

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.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Pturner

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.

[The Great Fumar]

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


fUMAR

[graciegirl]

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.

[mulligan]

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

[Donna2]

Originally Posted by mulligan

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

I miss my grammer.

[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

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.

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.)

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

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.

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

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by TrudyM

I am sorry that I, sometimes post without spellchecking in word and pasteing it in, resulting in very bad spelling.

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

Russ

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Please still like me Russ.

I don't think that is in question GG!

[Boomer]

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.

[tony]

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.

[macro]

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). 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.

[ssmith]

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.

[cashman]

Im not going hear nor their.

So they're.