The thing I miss on A2K the most is SPELL CHECK

@BumbleBeeBoogie,

Wat brawser do you use, BBB? I thot that every brauser underlined spelling misteaks.

Every one of those errors, above, were underlined in read. [didn't catch the last one tho']

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

Most of the egregious spelling errors that really bug me here won't be fixed that way, eg stuffing up "they're" and "their", "its" and "it's" etc.

Anyway, my browser has a spell check, though I am having to teach it to spell in English rather than American.

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@dlowan,

i've got grammar check as well, spelling underlines in red, grammar in green

helps with the it's and its

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@BumbleBeeBoogie,

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

Is it time to reinstall spell check? How many members would like to see that NOW?

Well it can't just happen now (we have a non-trivial amount of work on the short to do list), and it's probably not going to make it to the top of the priorities anytime soon. The reason is that browsers are increasingly performing this as natively and they can do it much better that way than a website can (the main reason is because the dictionary and much of the UI is local).

Chrome, Firefox and Safari users all have that natively, and there are good options like the Google Toolbar and other plugins for IE. Using those tools you'll have a faster, better spellcheck on all textareas on all sites and if you miss our old horrible spellcheck I recommend trying a browser-wide one, you'll probably like it a hell of a lot more (as an example of why, most of them are as-you-type while our old spellcheck was a popup that you'll run after you were finished).

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

i've got grammar check as well, spelling underlines in red, grammar in green

helps with the it's and its

You have a grammar check that helps with THAT?

What are you running again?

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if your that werried abut speeling you probably got nothng to say anyho just just cut n paste, nobody reads nutting anyway.

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@dlowan,

safari on snow leopard (mac)

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@Reyn,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

INEVITABLE, especially with modern texting.

Reyn wrote:

Well, if you say so, but I don't believe, myself.
It may happen in "popular culture", but not be accepted in business.

A period of transition is inevitable.
Eventually, it will be universally accepted.
We need new fonetic dictionaries.
Fonetic spelling is effortless n flawless.
MOST of English is already fonetic; almost all of it.

The atavistic non-fonetic aspects of spelling r a defiance of logic
and thay r violence against efficiency. Teaching children the old way
is child abuse.

David wrote:

Change is irritating. I despise the metric system,
since I learned the English system, but I must admit
that most of the metric system is better
(excluding its temperature scale; Fahrenheit is better).

Reyn wrote:

Change may be irritating, but one can learn to adapt.
I thought I would never get used to metric (here in Canada),
but I'm getting better at it.

Adapt and ADOPT fonetic spelling; do it for the children.

David

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@Robert Gentel,

Robert, in my opinion, we don 't need a spelling checker,
but if u insist on it, I hope that u 'll give us a fonetic spelling checker.

David

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@djjd62,

Aaah...Mac.

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@OmSigDAVID,

**** fonetic spelling

English is a dead language. No point in trying to 'fix' it.

Esperanto is the way to go. At least a world language would make sense.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

**** fonetic spelling

Is that like a specialized sexual fetish ?

ehBeth wrote:

English is a dead language. No point in trying to 'fix' it.

That can be useful; stable, like Latin.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

ehBeth wrote:
**** fonetic spelling
Is that like a specialized sexual fetish ?

actually you're not far off on how I perceive you and your obsessions

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Eventually, it will be universally accepted.

So, when you say universally, you are talking about every language on this planet?

You will find that all people will never agree on anything.

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@Reyn,

Reyn wrote:

You will find that all people will never agree on anything.

well i think we could all agree on that

wait, what Confused

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@ehBeth,

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actually you're not far off on how I perceive you and your obsessions

So in this case does that mean that a Silly Goose is necessarily a wackaloon or a hooplehead or both?

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@dlowan,

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Most of the egregious spelling errors that really bug me here won't be fixed that way, eg stuffing up "they're" and "their", "its" and "it's" etc.

egregious, come on Deb, take a pill.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

**** fonetic spelling

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Is that like a specialized sexual fetish ?

ehBeth wrote:

actually you're not far off on how I perceive you and your obsessions

Well, I was obsessed with a girl named Joyce, descended of the Austrian Aristocracy,
for many decades, but my spelling was paradigmatic thru all those years.

Joyce rejected my attentions; maybe, if I had only tried to lure her with fonetic spelling. . . .

David

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@Reyn,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Eventually, it will be universally accepted.

Reyn wrote:

So, when you say universally, you are talking about every language on this planet?

Yeah, well since u bring it up: yeah.

I had been focusing on America, so far; that has been universal enuf, but since u bring it up. . . .

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

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if I had only tried to lure her with fonetic spelling. . . .

Is that a line from "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller?

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