Dear Dave! (Spell Checker)

I was hoping that you would add a spell check here for us non spellers, which I think that I am the queen of. It would help out a lot, thanks for your consideration....did I spell that right....chesss I need HELP!

But that's half the fun Windsurffer isn't it? Who cares if spelling or grammar aren't perfect, it's the contact and communication that counts. We'd lose the spontaneity (goodness that one looks strange - but you know what i mean LOL!)
Anyway, think of the continuous indigestion the poor spellchecker would have with all those funny names. And i don't just mean the scientific ones!!
:)

Oh Windsurfer,I do know what you mean but my dear,that's the fun and charm that is the ingredient of such special conversations we all enjoy here' For me and many others,we don't care of ones' verbal perfectionestic(did I make another new word,lol?)script,we're family''' Please rethink and consider what we all would be denied''PPPPLLLLLLLEAASE'''IMHO Sis':D

Hey, Windy - these guys are right.

But if you really want to be picture-perfect in your spelling, why not compose your post in Word, spell-check it, then copy the text into the reply box here at DG and post it? Another thing you could do is download a freeware spell-checker that works in whatever window you happen to have open. I know they're out there -- If you want help looking for one, e-mail me. :)

If'n ya'll tried to spell-check me and the way I write I believe yur puters would start smokin'. Plus, come ta thank about it, ya'll wouldn't even thank it was me talkin' to ya,...or wood ya?

Horshew fer presadent!!
Do I hear any nominayshens?

This message was edited Thursday, Feb 14th 11:54 PM

Aye!!! hehehehehe.

Bud for Secretary of State!

alright guys but I don't want to hear any complaints about my spelling, nor do I want to hear any snickers lol.

You won't Windsurffer - promise. All the crazy language on here makes the place. And iff you can't even spell your own name........Just kidding, LOL. {{{{Windsurffer}}}}

...and the old arthritc nimble finges that interact with the senior brains..lol

"eyes"

Too rite!!lol

windsurffer; just do as I do. Blame the misspelled words on your keyboard. Works for me and I have gotten away with it so far. Well, I guess everyone knows now.
Honest,honest. It's my keyboard thhat can't spell. Really it is. I keep telling my DH that we need new keyboard but he isn't falling for it.......shoot!

My dear,we are all only human. We all make mistakes, so join in with the rest of us and just be yourself just like you always been. Love ya just the way you are. If none of us never made mistakes,then human we wouldn't be,now would we?

This message was edited Friday, Feb 15th 3:28 PM

(((((BIG HUGS)))) CoCo your are just to much, just about the time I think that I can't feel any better you go and say something that just makes my day, thank you sweetie. I posted a message for you in General Discussion....you little sneak lol.

I see everything backwards and tend to type that way so it is very hard to keep things straight, and on top of that I can't spell my way out of a paper bag. Thank you all for understanding and not criticizing, it make me feel a lot better. Now the frist snicker I hear...I will send such a gust of WIND down to whip you around a little bit lol.

She done gone and threatened us....*giggle*...WHAT...what the heck...big puff of wind just blew my papers all over maa desk!!! WIND...I didn't mena it!! LOL Jo

LOL Jo, ok I am sorry Promise I won't do it again. Thank you so much for your lovely card it was so sweet of you :)

Windsurffer, here is alittle poem just for you...........

Today's Laugh: Spell Checkers Poem

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 rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore you pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

That's just brilliant ROFLMBO!!

Yes, a stinker I am,aren't I?
I just could not resist putting the poem on here.

SOmetimes, I think there is smoke coming out of my computer cuz it is so sick of my spelling errors! I always have my spell check on and it just doesnt; work here. :( Could use one I know

Lol CoCo as I told you b4 tht my spelling is jut fne, but clud always use a lttle help lol

Who took my krown away, I thought I was the kween of non spelling. Norma

LoL Crasulady2, u mow then welcum to it. I can spell when I don't think about it but when I get excited or trying to say something funny, that's when I start having doubts.To top it all off I can't type very well lol.
Is there any free spell checkers out there that will work with any form?

Told you,it's the key board. Sometimes the letters are just in the wrong place. Who needs a spell checker? It's more fun this way. We all need a good laugh sometimes at our missteaks.

Boy do I like yaw mistkes looks like STEAK mmmmmm

LOL. Wee hav'n funn oar whatt?

You bet we are, and this is the first time I have laughed at my non spelling and non typing self lol.

See,laugh, and the world laughs with you; not at you.

hey eye missd owt on dis won. two slow eye gess. spel chekerz r fur wuses. lol eye got thuh spel checkr fer non spelerz - whatevr u spel i tranzlate to the kerect spelin and sea what it wuz u wer tri-in to spel. gess eye ot two uze it on mie own stuf bee four eye send messy gez.
hee hee hope u al R doin phyne!
-kokoseed

LOL CoCoSeed nat evn I kould tap tht 1

LOL Seed. Now I know what you have been doing.........thinking of ways to make us all crazy. You're the Tops. Have missed you in the garden Seed. See, you just never know what you're missing. Course,I guess I have been keeping you busy with my card production,haven't I?

Just my .02 worth, but this is a feature I've wanted since the beginning. Normally I'm an excellent speller, but old eyes and fingers tend to do other things! :-) I usually don't find my mistakes until I've reached the "PREVIEW" pane.......think that having a spell checker would be a great tool. Thanks Dave.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Mom2 I really appreciate the support. I know that we are all making fun of the way we have spelling errors but I am really serious about the request. It is so frustrating to have to wonder or not know how to spell what you want to say, so DAVE PLEASE CONSIDER IT.

Hmm, I just realized that I never did reply to this thread. This subject has come up several times in the past and the spell-checker request threads start to run together.

When I say no, it is usually because I have one of three reasons:

Reason 1: It's impossible to do.

Reason 2: It is not justifiable.

Reason 3: I don't want to do it (for whatever reason).

So, whenever I say no to something, you are virtually guaranteed that one of the above 3 reasons is applied here.

In this case, it's rule #2. As of this very moment, when weighing the cost vs. benefits to a spell checker, the costs far outweigh the benefit. The level of work that will go into a spell checker is tremendous, and would take me at a week of solid programming to get it together.

During that same amount of time, I can do a lot of other wonderful things that would benefit DG far more than a spell checker.

Now, one day someone may develop a piece of code that I can just drop right in and - bam - we'd instantly have a spell check. That may indeed happen one day, and in such a case DG will be one of the first sites to have a spell check.

Until then, however, I just can't devote the resources that would be needed to put this together. I wish that was not the answer I had to give. :(

Dave

Dave I didn't understand all the programing or the finances that would be needed to add a spell checker here.
I am glad that you took the time to answer my question because I had no idea if you had seen it, so now I know and some answer is better than no answer even if I am still keeping my toes and fingers crossed lol.
Thanks

I have found that a dictionary still is my best bet when it comes to spelling. I try to keep several around the house as the old mind just isn't working as well as it once did. A necessity at the computer desk is my trusty dictionary. Now, if I can just make myself use it all the time!!!

I didn't know either how much work it is to put in such a thing. WOW! Much more complicated than I would have thought. So many features available everywhere I never think about the work or expense involved but it's good to know.

Myself, I don't mind one bit when anyone makes mistakes...sometimes I look back on my own posts and am "emmbarrasssed" at my own "tipoes" and "booboobs"! In other peoples posts, I find mistakes or funny phrases cute and endearing and so human but in my own, I just think I look harebrained!

We are hardest on ourselves. Friends don't mind.....! I take pleasure in the colloquial speech and sayings that differ from my own. I must say "someone" got me good as their thread header was "11 year old boobs” and I thought WHAT THE ?????? could this very normally, very nice person be posting ???? ( and I’m afraid nosiness made me peek) I got a real kick out of it seeing they meant boo boos....made me smile at my own misunderstanding!

Lol Mummyof4 that is a cute story,but like you said we are very hard on ourselves.

For a on line spell checker go to
http://www.gurunet.com/solutions_products_pc.html
works great.
Greenw@@d

Wind (YOU POSTED YOU HAD YOUR FINGERS CROSSED) uncross those fingers before you start posting and you will become a much better speller. It will do away with those fat finger miscues that I do even with my fingers uncrossed.