Speaking of spelling...(OT)

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I received this e-mail from a friend of mine, and I thought it was interesting…

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

Did you understand it? FYI, this does not mean this is a substitute for spelling correctly. This is just FOR FUN.

Matt

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Yes, I understood it. Doesn’t change the fact that correctly spelled words are still easier to read…

Jeff

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Yes, I could read it. It took about three times as long, though. It could have been encrypted and taken a thousand times as long. So what? It doesn’t palliate the use of improper grammar and spelling…

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Muchof the spam I get uses this technique, so you cannot add specific words to be used as spam filters. Deth to spam’ers!

Bob Boudreau

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Sure, Matt. Why don’t you go out and get a brand-new Big Boy with factory sound and paint “Uionn Pcaifc” on the tender. [:D]

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Yeah, it seems that people look for an excuse to be lazy nowdays… “It’s
okay to spell poorly as long as people know what I am saying”.
Dave

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Easy cure for spelling. Download the spell checker for Internet Explorer. Much quicker that 8 years of spelling in grade school.

http://www.iespell.com/

Tom

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Hey, it’d get me out of licensing fees. [:0]

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Alright, post has become a failure. This was just for fun. Nowhere did I say “So, if you get it this close, everything will be cool.” But, of course, we just have to take it to that point.

Matt

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That may be true; but I disagree entirely.

There is a big difference between … “I am a fool” and “I am a fowl”

Every spellchecker in the world will tell you that both sentences are correctly spelt; but you’ll get a very different response from people who read them.

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Now <that’s> funny…

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I think the point of the research should be that the brain sees what it thinks should be right-the quoted/scrambled PH is composed of mostly common word we have seen thousand of times and just assume what they are-99% of the time you are right but its that 1% that can be dangerous, foul vs fowl-close but not the same

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A spell checker OK’d this:

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 four two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Bob Boudreau [:D]

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I agree with Bob and Timothy. There are certain words that sohuld be banned from spell checkers. For example, they’re, there, and their should not be allowed but should be highlighted, requiring the user to make sure the correct word is being used.

For those who misunderstood, my remark about spell checkers was meant to be facetious. The ability to communicate clearly is an important part of our development. Proofreading is an important part of communication. Spell checkers have a very long way to go before I will rely on one as a sole means to verify the content of my writings.

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I know where this thread is going, therefore (or is that therefour or there4? [:o)]) I’m locking it.

This has come up multiple times in the past and it always leads to an argument.

Bergie