I came across this poem on the net about spell checkers.

So true

even I sometimes get their and there mixed up for a brief pico-second

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"It came with my pea sea" reminds me of the instructions that came from a poor translation for a friend's PC AT clone computer in the '80s. Instead of "AT" it was always printed as "a tease." So there would be things like:

"Congratulations! You're knew a tease features is . . ." in the instructions.

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And yet publishing companies are hiring fewer copy editors these days, because spell check and grammar check will fix their problems!

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I think it'd hang myself after the first few minutes of working as a copy editor anyway. Ick!

Of course my extreeme aversion to all things repetative, my lack of attention to detail, and my lack of attention span don't help make a copy editing job sound any better to me.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Back when I was a TA, I read a paper that had clearly been run through a spell-checker. Throughout the entire paper, Descartes was spelled Desecrates.

This is not related to spellchecking, but I'm reminded of a warning that came with a pair of swimming goggles I bought back in the '70s:

"For not diving, just swimming only."

Hmm. No, Fazor, I don't think you'd make a very good copy editor. Since, of course, you meant "I'd," "extreme," and "repetitive."

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I wonder, though: Just because Fazor makes those errors doesn't
mean he couldn't spot them and draw red circles around them.

* * * *
Here's something I typed up yesterday, but didn't feel was worth
starting a new thread for, so I'll hijack this thread, instead.

I noticed a very subtle difference in meaning and how I
vocalize the word "were" in different cases:

We found them just as they were six hundred years ago.

We found them just as they were sitting down to eat.

The differences in vocalization are that in the first
case I draw out the 'r' sound and pause as if it were the
end of a clause. But no comma belongs there. Putting in
a comma would mean we found them six hundred years ago.

-- Jeff in Minneapolis

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Which kind of not diving do you think they meant? Jumping into the
water from a height, or going deep under the surface?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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"I find astronomy very interesting, but I wouldn't if I thought we
were just going to sit here and look." -- "Van Rijn"

"The other planets? Well, they just happen to be there, but the
point of rockets is to explore them!" -- Kai Yeves

I wonder, though: Just because Fazor makes those errors doesn't
mean he couldn't spot them and draw red circles around them.

I agree, doesn't necessarily mean I wouldn't...but coupled with the other reasons I give, I'd still agree with Gillian who was in agreement with my original statement (guess that means I'm agreeing with myself). Lack of attention span would be the biggest killer I suppos---:wanders off:

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Certainly I have someone proofread my stuff before I consider it suitable for (real) publication, because it's easier to spot someone else's errors than your own. However, I do know that Fazor isn't a very good speller, because he's said so himself, and good spelling is essential in a good copy editor, spell check or no.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Subaru UK once sent out a mailing to all owners of new Subarus, signed by their CEO, in which the word "Subaru" had been replaced throughout by "suburban", courtesy of someone's dim use of a spelling checker: "Dear suburban owner ..."
About a week later, they noticed the problem and sent out another letter, in which they apologized for "any inconvenience caused" by the first letter. I'm still wondering what sort of inconvenience they were imagining.

Grant Hutchison

Well, I hope they considered the shallow dive at the start of a race to be okay, otherwise, I really don't know. . .

My spelling was not that great, which is why I never got to go to Hogwarts

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I probably spell better than most, but if you saw my penmanship you'd think I had more problems.

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Funny poem!
I'm sorry I haven't been on the past two days, but I'm doing Stage Crew at school and handling a spotlight at the practices was taking up all of my free time.

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enjoy the real world. This cyber one is a hardly a good replacement.



I remember high school theater fondly. We had lots of fun.

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Thank you, I will.

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Waaay back in '76 I got to handle the lighting in two amature stage plays in real a San Francisco theatre. Freaking-awesome-job! Lost it because my sense of timing was better than the new stage director's. The stage actors told me so themselves, as an aside. Otherwise I wouldn't say it.

(How many of you guys are sick of folks who quit school because they were "smarter than thier teachers" ?)

My first night was the last night of a play and I got to go to the big end of the run party. That's where folks were telling me my timing was better. And all I did was follow the freaking instructions in the script. He kept wanting to illuminate scenes about four or five beats too early.

Hmmm, emergency fill-in kid or new high strung, very "flamboyant" stage director? Who will win?

Well, this ain't the Nickelodeon channel.

And being 16 at the time, (Hey! Kai's age!) I didn't know enough to realize that being right doesn't always work in employee/management situations.

Jeff, Grant, promise not to laugh?

I actually went into that last meeting thinking I was going to be listened to, I would make my case, and it all be good...

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once I tried out for a play, a comedy. The tryouts had us saying ridiculous sayings in serious tones. After laughing for nearly 5 minutes straight the director gave me the part of a tree.


still one of the funniest moments of my life.



What was so funny? My part was to read an advertisement for women's horse riding apparel but in the tone of a football coach that had just lost. I didn't even make 5 seconds before laughing. They sat there and watched me laughing/crying for the longest time.

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I was smarter than my teachers, too, but I've still got a BA. (Well, not all of my teachers. But enough of them for it to really bother me.)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

man, being smarter than your teachers is common.

You know what they say about those who can't.




Truthfully, I'm looking forward to being a professor. For me it seems an ideal job - well I have another planned, but I'm going to retire a professor.

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Depends on the group and the teacher, naturally. I can assure you that very few of the people I knew were smarter than a majority of their teachers.

Yes. I've always thought it was terribly silly. After all, don't you have to be able to do something in order to teach other people how?

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

[Going back on topic for a second:] I know exactly what you mean. What I can't figure out is why there are so many starts in the sky.

There is a lot more to it than you think, but it's a good job.

I don't know that I was smarter than my teachers. Being in advanced classes, I was probably on par with most of them, but I'm not sure about smarter. However, I am not necessarily happy that I'm educating teachers that could fit this category. I've definitely seen some in my classes.

I'm not 16.
I've got all the songs from Guys and Dolls stuck in my head now, and there's still one performance to go.

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I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
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Rovers forever! - ToSeek

When I think of Guys and Dolls, I always think of Sesame Streets Monsterpiece Theater version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2YY3Ba6Js0
And yes, my dependance on spell-checkers has lead to many problems. When I read that poem, my brain gave it a Scots accent, like I do when I read Canterbury Tales.
One story that would never make it out of a spell checker alive is Meihem In Ce Klasrum by Dolton Edwards. http://members.aol.com/VoxVideus/meihem.html I would not have wanted to be the copy editor for Astounding when it first appeared in 1946.

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