Typos

[Jerry]

I've always had a few typoa in my posts, but it is considerably worse right now. I never took typing in school, so I have to look at the keyboard as I type. I got hit in my left eye twice earlyer in the week as I was walking thru the woods, As a result, I gave a clear shielsd taped over the eye, and hve to stay up tonight, putting drops in it every hour.Ordinarily, losing sight (temporarily) in one eye wouldn't cause a big problem, But I had a special ytpe of laswe vision corrective surgery, called mono-vision. This involves making one eye see for distance and the othrt one for close up, such as reading. Since my left eye is my reading eye, This keyboard isn't very clear . I try and go bck to make corrections but some do slip by. Hopefully it will be betterin a few days.

[Southern Breeze]

I hope to hear that your eyesight clears up.I've worn glasses all my life so I know what it's like when ones sight gets messed up.As for the typos,a perfectly spelled post on this forum would stand out like levis at the highland games.Until your better,try to stay offline and rest your eyes.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

To which I address a question to the mods. Is there no spell chack feature in vBulletin? It seems like one of the most obvious user features that I find myself amazed that it does not exist. Although, being in IT I can understand chosing a product, especially for this purpose, based on admin capabilities over user features, but spell check is so basic.

[Andrew Breecher]

Hmm, I can touch type, so I'm able to type a post while in conversation with someone else in the room, and not even looking at the computer. I also almost always hit "Preview Post" before hitting "Submit" so I can make sure the post looks all right. If I'm unsure of a spelling, I look it up on answers.com. If one were really concerned with spelling, one could type the post in Microsoft Word or some such program with a built-in spelling checker, and then copy and paste into the X-Marks post format. I suppose none of that makes a difference if ones near-vision still can't see the computer screen though.

Andrew.

[GMan]

Two things I noticed where I make my major typos.

1. Extremely tired
2. Too much drink
3. Not enough drink

Hope your eyesight gets back to where it should be Jerry.

[Iolaus]

Hmm, I can touch type, so I'm able to type a post while in conversation with someone else in the room, and not even looking at the computer. I also almost always hit "Preview Post" before hitting "Submit" so I can make sure the post looks all right. If I'm unsure of a spelling, I look it up on answers.com. If one were really concerned with spelling, one could type the post in Microsoft Word or some such program with a built-in spelling checker, and then copy and paste into the X-Marks post format. I suppose none of that makes a difference if ones near-vision still can't see the computer screen though.

Andrew.

"Preview Post" is your friend. If something doesn't look right to me, I just Google the word and Google will ask me "Did you mean..." It's not fool-proof, but it works for me.

[bear]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya, I don't care how poor the spelling is, as lomg as the effort seems to be there to type correctly.
It's the lazy/no capitals/no punctuation/abbreviate every other word that gets me riled. They can call it internet spelling, or a youth thing, but it comes down to laziness.

[Iolaus]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya, I don't care how poor the spelling is, as lomg as the effort seems to be there to type correctly.
It's the lazy/no capitals/no punctuation/abbreviate every other word that gets me riled. They can call it internet spelling, or a youth thing, but it comes down to laziness.

Ummm, that would be long.

[Mike1]

KCW, if I recall, there is a spell-check hack that can be added to vB.

The Webbie has this forum set up to pretty rapidly time out inactive users. For those that are not touch-typists (such as myself), the suggestion to use Word, or something similar, can have two advantages. You can type your post without the fear of trying to submit it after a time-out (can you tell it's happened to me? ) and you can spell-check the text before pasting it into the text editor on here.

[millar]

As the leading bitcher about poor spelling, I gotta tell ya,

Yes, Bear, I totally agree with you. Lazy fools. Now let us talk about grammar... :grin: