Free Spell Check Software

http://www.quinion.com/mqa/spell.htm ^ | Nov. 9 2001 | me

[Senator Pardek]

For those of you who are not as fortunate as myself to be blessed with a classical education, I present to you Spell Checker for Edit Boxes.

I feel that some folks with a great deal of insight/wisdom are reluctant to post because they may possess a "less than stellar" spelling talent.

Just as tall people (such as myself) are unfairly viewed positively by society, so are people who don't spell every word correctly.

Proper spelling is to intelligence as typing 100 WPM is to playing a Chopin etude - very little correlation.

(There's not a Mac version, but if you know Mac users like I do - they'll claim it's impossible to make a spelling error on a Mac or sumpin'.)

Carpe Remotum Controllum

[riley1992]

Ahem.

[Eala]

Just as tall people (such as myself) are unfairly viewed positively by society, so are people who don't spell every word correctly.

Huh!! I was not aware that "people who don't spell every word correctly" are "unfairly viewed positively by society", but if so, it sure explains much!!!

[Cagey]

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

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

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

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

[idealog]

Yes this is an esential program for all the home skoolers on FR.

[riley1992]

Very good! See? You're improving already.

[Dallas]

Man, you're whistling past the graveyard with that comment...

How about picking on "outkum baced edukasion" instead.

[El Sordo]

I'll get a copy.

It's for a friend......

[woofer]

Carpe Remotum Controllum

I keepinz der remoten controllen unzer cushion.

P.S. you spelt "sumptin" wrong.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Thanks Pard...I could use a Spel Czech

[Egg]

Funny! Who's the author?

[Germanflower]

Smart people automatically spell everything correctly. And they type well because their brains connect with every other cognitive and sensory perception. They have fully internalized language at a very very young age and often do not remember actually having to learn to read and write. It's not a matter of much thought for them, us, the classically educated dwelling on the short end of the curve. The reality is that some things just cannot be learned. Use the device but realize that it does put you in the intellectually disadvantaged realm. That's just the way it is. We tolerate your spelling mistakes because we actually do not notice them, having already processed and corrected the error for you. We also do this in conversation, and though it does get a bit annoying, finishing your sentences for you, what else can we do if you forget the English word for house or car or sandwich and resort to the vernacular use of the phrase, "youknowthatthing?"? It's the errors of logic and thought processes which tempt one to throw laptop out of window(but not quite). Ginko Biloba, alright? Deutsche Blumen leiben sie auch!

[Cagey]

Sauce Unknown

[Erasmus]

You can start by having it automatically reject Vanities if the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Level is at Eighth Grade or below.

Or, for that matter, if the poster fails the Voight-Kampff test.

[Illbay]

Well, it took hundreds of posts from you--ten times a many as usual--but now it's clear: You're a Replicant.

[AlaskaErik]

Cool! I'm tirred of cutting and pasting to Word.

[AlaskaErik]

Hey, it doen't work.

[jammer]

I don't give a darn about your height. Play me "Winter Wind" and then we'll decide if you're worthy. :)

[Senator Pardek]

See post #4 - my "height" comment was a joke. I ain't no giant, dropped out of the 10th grade, and I cannot spell worth a lick.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

for people like me that don't know how to spell yacht, LOL