So many "hubbers" can't spell and publish...why?
Lol...no I think you'll find that's an epileptic!....Amateurs sigh
An ellipsis is what happens when the moon gets in front of the sun and prevents it's rays from hitting the earth, is a
Lunar Eclipse, read my lips, lunar eclipse
Geez, and they call me an amatooer
You're so funny GreekOne. I love this comment and your earlier one about enhanced perfection.
E&OE
oh.
Ive been using it all wrong...
BTW other peoples opinions of me are none of my business!
Excellent! I'll hafta remember that one!
OMG Quirk! You are too funny
I just copied your profile page into Microsoft Word and checked the Spelling and Grammar Errors. This is what Microsoft Word spelling and grammar found. I highlighted your mistakes in red, like they do in school. Enjoy
There are few, if any, people who – Wordiness Consider Revising
person who is able to expand the infinite capabilities of their minds far into the abyss of limitless space and time, with the intent of exposing themselves – Pronoun Use
"grande" – Not in dictionary
consider: - colon use
dependent upon it's ability to adapt and evolve - it's – commonly confused word
visioned – Not in the dictionary (try vision)
possibility – Not in the dictionary (Misspelling)English not my mother language and I still learning how to using it in the right way.
I do spell check but sometimes it is still not enough. So all I can do is only say, "I'm so sorry, I can write in English perfectly." I hope everyone forgive me.Thank you.
That very kind of you.Well, I have to. If it is possible, I wish I can mastering it in one night but hhhh.... I'm still far from good.
You are very lucky to have international language as yours. But foreigner like me really need to beat ourselves hard if we want to become writer in English language. I still very lucky since my language written in roman. But those who's using another type of letter really works extra hard on mastering the letter only, no mention about spelling and grammar. Must be give them headache for sure.
Anyway, writing in Hub Pages and communicate with many Hubbers really help me a lot to improving my English, and I guess that is why, even with so many mistake in grammar etc, I still publishing my works.Thank you.
I will when I stop doing mistake in grammar at all. Can't be too careless, right?
I know what you mean - mastering the Greek alphabet takes a while!
I cannot write in Greek, so I have a lot of sympathy for people with ESL. It takes courage to publish in a second languageAnd courage is all I have, Sufi.
I mean: I can't write in English perfectly.
Hhhh... see? I did typo and it's friends all the time.
Here, here!
(Sorry - it was too much fun to resist!)
I'm actually pretty much the same as you, but I don't catch everything.Not grandma, - gramma or both!
Wait a minute hold the phone, I was under the impression that an Eclipse was when a woman ate a jaffa cake? Or was that A total Eclipse? I'm so confused has the television lied to me again
My take on the title of this thread is that it should read: "So many Hubbers can't spell, yet they publish." (Commas separate two completely separate ideas when there is a conjunction at the beginning of the second idea. In this case "yet" is used as a conjunction.)
(Do I get an "A" on forum-thread creating for this? )
As far as the thing about running spell-check goes, I do think it's clear that a lot of people don't bother. I think it does really make a big difference, and it's such a quick thing to do. Spell-checkers have helped my naturally-non-spelling son (more accurately, former kid with a learning problem) learn to spell a whole lot better. He doesn't write online (because writing has never been "his thing"), but spell-checkers help him feel a whole lot more confident in even basic things, like e.mails.- what about people who dont have spell checkers? I dont have time to write my every forum statement in word, check, fix, save, copy/paste then submit to the forum.
DoorMattnomore, everyone has his own idea about this kind of stuff; but my thing is I don't think most people think anyone needs to worry about forum posting anyway. Most people (even the ones who are comfortable with spelling) are pretty casual about things like forum posting.
I think when people make remarks about people posting Hubs without running spell-checker it's more about the Hubs than about any of the "less formal" types of writing on the Internet. There's the spell-checker for Hubbers to use before publishing. I think that's, for the most part, the only thing people who "make remarks" about checking spelling before publishing are talking about.
Believe me, as someone who watched my very bright son struggle with spelling from the time he started school until now (years after he finished school), I know what a challenge it can be; and I really don't think people who have a "spelling disability" should decide not to write because of it.
I've seen Hubs, though, that are so moving and that have something so important to say, but that have "tons" of spelling errors in them, to the point where it seems unfortunate that such important or moving ideas haven't been given a simple run of a spell-checker in order to present them in a way that does them justice. I'm not talking about an occasional spelling error here or there. Everyone has them. I mean those Hubs that are so loaded with spelling "issues" it's clear the author didn't run spell-check.
What people do or don't do with their own Hubs is their business. Sometimes, though, what would have been a really great piece of writing is turned into something so much less because someone didn't just run the spell-checker. I'm not making this comment from a judgmental point-of-view whatsoever, believe me. I'm making it because you said you're someone with Dyslexia (but because I know there must be "zillions" of other Hubbers who also have a "spelling disability"), and I'm thinking about what a challenge my son's spelling issues have always been for him. I'm also thinking about how I saw him as as such a hero when he found ways to learn what he hadn't been able to learn throughout all those school years. More importantly, he's been a hero as far as I'm concerned for not letting his disability stop him from doing something like writing when he has to put something in writing.
Maybe a forum post isn't supposed to turn all this serious, but I know how my son sometimes squirms when the subject of spelling or writing comes up; and I know there are a lot of people on here who either have Dyslexia or some other thing that makes spelling a challenge for them (so I think it may not be bad idea to address that on a thread like this).
When my son is at my house and I see him first write an e.mail, and then do a quick fix of any spelling errors in it, I see something happen in his face that kind of indicates he sees the e.mail as "all set" once those errors have been fixed. It's almost as if he shifts from his "aiming to do his best" mode when he's writing to a "knowing he's done a good job" mode, once the errors have been fixed. It's also as if he feels as if his writing is now "in the same running" as everyone else's.
He gets to have a "mini-confidence" in his writing that he never got to have in school, when he always felt as if his spelling and reading problems were the things that brought his grades down and made him feel different from most of the kids who had no problems.
I'll be honest. When I run into online articles that are loaded with spelling errors (and, again, I don't mean the error here or there), I usually think, "This person must be like my son - lots of important, meaningful, and intelligent thoughts and feelings but a "mechanical" problem when it comes to doing those thoughts and feelings and ideas justice." I always kind of admire the person for writing at all, but I also wish (not that it's my business) they'd do their fine ideas justice by cleaning up the spelling just a little and letting their writing take its place among "all the other writing" without calling attention to the writer's difficulty with spelling.
I'm not talking about you here, because I can't say I've read enough of your Hubs to even know what you do or don't have in terms of spelling errors. I'm just talking about some of the Hubs I've run into at one time or another, written by "whoever".
When my son was a little boy so many of the other little kids made him feel inferior because of his struggles in school, when, in reality, he was a lot more intelligent and generally "on top of things" than a lot of them were. I suppose that's why, when I see some Hub that is loaded with spelling errors, I think, "Hey, you-person-who-wrote-this, why not run a spell-checker, clean it up some, and don't let the relatively unimportant fact that you have trouble spelling detract from this otherwise interesting, useful, or important, piece of writing."
As I said, what other Hubbers on here do is not my business. I know that just because I have one son who has trouble spelling, that doesn't mean I'm the mother of all the thousands of Hubbers who have trouble with spelling. It's just that I so often run into Hubs that make me think, "Hmm. I don't think this person realizes what a good piece of writing this would be if he'd only run a quick spell-check."
I know there are people who say, "I just want to write, and I'm not out to impress anyone or earn any money." That's their business. Still, though, it just seems like a shame that some Hubs aren't "the best they could be" just because someone "isn't out to impress anybody". I just think a lot of the writers of such Hubs, and the Hubs, themselves, deserve a little more than that. Again, though - not my business. I just wanted to make the point that sometimes when people think running a spell-checker is worth doing, it's not because they're grammar Nazis.
- Whikatposted 13 years ago
0I am here for the money! I misspell and do not use proper English on purpose! I feel that if someone is looking for proper spelling they will click on the properly spelled Google adsense advertisement
Just Kidding. This site's language snobs are showing their prejudice against my people.
As a Canadian, my use of the English language differs from that of the the bastardized American version.
So called 'grammatical errors' in my work are, in fact, merely the proper Canadian version of English language.
I am tired of being persecuted and ridiculed.
Shame on all of you.
You've made me want to be born again as a Canadian
No, our English is correct...their's isn't
- Home Girlposted 13 years ago0
The reasons for poor grammar and spelling are:
1) It no longer seems to be emphasized in school curriculums. When I went to public school many moons ago, it was drilled into us until it was automatic.
2) People are in a hurry to put their thoughts out there, and they've never had the discipline to go back over what they've written (they may perceive it as a waste of 'valuable' time).
3) They really are lazy and don't care..as long as they're understood.
It is unfortunate, but unless the habit is instilled early and often, it will just fall into disuse, as with many other things.lol Hi Qwark, (which isn't a real word btw, but a word spelled phonetically).
how r u tonite? um, lol, I'm sticking my nose in, again, aren't I? lol Oh, well!
Um, anyway, I kinda thought, um, he was saying he wasn't seeking your respect. Don't understand it though....I mean...I'd rather have someone's respect that be disrespected, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna bend over backwards to get it.
I used to be an English teacher. Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure are going to be priorities in my writing.
I've known some brilliant people who just couldn't spell. If spell check is available, there's no excuse not to use it.
I tend to be most critical of the web pages of area companies, especially when I see mistakes in the use of the English language. Many of them paid quite a bit to have a web site put up, and for the amount of money they spent, they should have had a proofreader going over the text on their site. I will judge them a little more harshly than I judge hubbers.- china manposted 13 years ago0
Mis-spelling and poor grammar are the hallmarks of poor education, low intelligence levels or laziness. In these forums they are occasionally newbies who are here to air some personal issue and then they are kind enough to leave. The other main source are the kristians who are here to constantly bang their drums in this WRITERS FORUM. Their hubs exhibit the same 14 year old mentality. But then if they did not post we would not look so bright I guess
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Thumbs up Whikat I am sooooo sorry I stopped short of being anal in the grammatical correctness of my hub. If I ever get enough time from my three jobs to go back and worry about the typo's and dots I will let you know.
And your anal analysis of Quarks hub shows that you have no idea about licence in writing, inference or humour.
If I ever get so bored from reading good interesting hubs I will pop by yours okChina Man, Seriously I do not know you, nor care how many spelling and grammar errors that Microsoft Word shows you had. I am simply pointing out a proverb I once read, "He who is innocent, may cast the first stone!" Worry about your own mistakes before worrying about others. Have a great day
I think one should apply the same diligence to all writing pursuits, whether it's a hub article, a forum post, or a post-it note on your refrigerator. If you've learned to write properly, it should be automatic.
Here online, you have ample opportunity to compose your responses, until you feel you've gotten it right, including spelling..before you hit 'Submit'. In fact, in these forums you have up to 4 hours to re-edit your posted remarks.
Let's not be lazy, boys and girls.- DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years ago0
- DoorMattnomoreposted 13 years ago0
HAHA!!! I found it, the spell checker..I feel super stupid. But pretty happy.
Only thing is...its says I spelled things like
looking, wrong. It wants me to change the ing to Ing? wierd..
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