How to use bad spelling?

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   Hauntyposted 14 years ago

   I'd like to use bad spelling and a lot of typos in one of my hubs. Is there a way to do it without affecting the hubscore or getting the hub automatically flagged by the system?

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      Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I don't think you'd get flagged for bad spelling.  I'm not even sure it would affect your hubscore for that particular Hub.  Why not try it and see?

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         Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I have the hub ready. I'll post it tomorrow and we'll find out. Thank you.

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      awareposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      score .  we dont need no stinkin scores

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      ralwusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      My several hubs written in Spoonerism set off my spellcheck, drove it nuts. It took a few days for Google to figure them out as well, but my scores were never compromised.

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         Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Ooh, I love spoonerisms, must go and check them out.

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            ralwusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            So sorry, I deleted them. they were all used up.

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         ThoughtfulSpotposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Now that sounds like something... I remember way back when doing a report on ol' Mr. Spooner in high school.  Fascinated ever since.

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            ralwusposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I reckon I will have to write a new one then. I can write them, but don't ask me to recite them. LOL

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         Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         ralwus, believe it or not, I was thinking of those hubs of yours. And I was wondering if you had any trouble with them. Good to know you didn't. Thanks, buddy!

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            Ultimate Hubberposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I can't answer your question, but you just made your 1000th forum post.

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   darksideposted 14 years ago

   If there's too much bad spelling it may flag it as being non-English and you won't be able to publish it.
   
   But you'll see the warning, and you can notify staff to manually review it.

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      Hauntyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I'd like to make it so that only about one third of the hub contains these errors. Hopefully, I can avoid the non-English flag that way. But if it happens, I'll do as you suggest. Thank you.

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   awareposted 14 years ago

   hola, hello . both spelled correctly ones underlined in red tho. why is that you think?

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   Ivorwenposted 14 years ago

   Raider Fan did a great job of using badly spelled words, and his score was fair, when he was writing... haven't seen anything of him in ages.

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   Shadesbreathposted 14 years ago

   I wrote a hub spoofing Christoph Reilly that was full of made up "oakie" words and it didn't seem to suffer.

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   Rayalternatelyposted 14 years ago

   Spell checkers only ever check words, never grammar; hence the constant misuse of to, too, two... and there, their, they're all over the place.
   
   I wouldn't get too hung up about it though, language is an evolving feast and studying our current word origins indicates our present ability to spell is equal to that of our forefathers.
   
   Write, write freely, and just use the words your audience can recognize as real (note that z English peeps). As long as they understand what you're saying, the spelling doesn't matter.

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