Education & Work Spelling

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  1. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    You know what... so many people spell Quiet "quite"...
    But the word "Quite"... i'm thinking, "quite what"? I'd like to correct them but i'm not sure if they'd take my comments in the right way.

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    Another bugbear... my Brisbane cleaner would always spell "paid" "payed" eg. Xxx payed yyy.
    She is a Brisbane native too so she has no excuse.

    I was always thinking, "I'd love it if you could spell it right"... she is a lovely lady and would always write a note to the guests and write messages to me but that spelling...

    Ps. If a non native speaker gets it wrong, that's completely cool. But someone brought up here?
     
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  2. Scott No Mates

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    Sics munts argo Aye cudn't spel ingunear, nowe Aye aarr won.
     
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    @Gockie, I am with you.

    I have been quiet quite on this issue for too long :D.
     
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    I dunno how to spell...googel dus it 4 me most uv the time....see, only free errors, opps,4, nu5...err6
     
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    Why learn grammar when you have autocorrect?
     
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    Also, lots of people on the Internet can't spell ‘drawer’. I keep seeing ads on Facebook and Gumtree for chests with ‘draws’
     
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  7. geoffw

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    Your right. I should of known better. Sometimes I loose the right way of spelling things when theirs a better way.
     
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    Defiantly
     
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  9. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    You've brought up a completely different topic.. my phone autocorrect... bloody hell. It "autocorrects" so many simple words I've entered that I don't want changed.

    How can I avoid that?
     
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    Its annoying when apostrophe's are used in the wrong place's.
     
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    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    I'm going to admit... apostrophes (['s] vs [s'] vs just plain old (s) ) are not my strong point! I'm always thinking... does that look right? :(
     
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    It depends on the phone - but there should be something in the settings to turn off autocorrect completely. On my Android, i just search for "spell" in settings and it gives me the option to turn Google spell check off. Check in the settings to see if your language is set correctly.

    I tried to turn it off at one stage, but I found that the mistakes it made were far fewer than the useful things it corrected.

    Though if you are Harry Potter you want to leave spell checking alone.
     
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    Those commonly wrongly spelt words here... eloquently put together.... also grammar.... Top marks Geoff

    To anybody who is not a native English speaker... can you pick the errors in Geoff's post?

    I'm back doing German classes.... lots to learn with grammar and some pronouciation to master. I'm also doing Cantonese too... that's another challenge too! Vocab, tones and grammar.
     
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    If you pick up an 19th century English book many of the words used to be spelled differently. Even more pronounced the further back you go. It is hard work deciphering Shakespeare for example even though it is English text.

    I prefer to think of spelling mistakes as a little bit of random genetic mutation in the evolution of the English language.
     
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    My pet hate is people using brought instead of bought.
     
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    At my school we were taught there's no point being highly educated if you're just going to use it to be condescending.
    Also, no points to the highly skilled constantly putting down the bogans. Difiantly not.
     
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    I thought condescending was my Greek mate bungee jumping.
     
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    This is all primary school stuff.
    Even high school dropouts should not get this stuff wrong, but funnily enough, even highly educated professionals still get the basics wrong.
     
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    Sometimes autocorrelation doesn't pick up everything
     
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    I propose a government charge on anybody who misuses the language.

    It will be a syn tax.

    But, of course, autocorrect does a great job of spell checking but not of grammar checking. My first post in this thread passed the spell checker easily. For serious grammar checking for business letters, I use the free edition of Grammarly, which is not perfect, just something to help me avoid unintentional mistakes.

    I think spell checking has actually made things worse. I come from a time when communications were all typed - everything was proof read carefully, because one mistake could mean that the document had to be retyped. Now many people rely completely on spell checkers, and often don't even proof read. I see big mistakes even in newspaper articles and headlines.

    Subjectively, I think some of the worst grammar comes from people on the political extremes, left it right. It may well be an education thing.
     
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