Further to mistakes with shudder-shutter; they're-their-there; your-you're-yore-yaw and so on
Here is some text that passes a spell-check!!
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Spell Czech; Spoil cheque; Spill Chuck
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OR Spell Check x 3
I have a spell checker which came with my PC. It plainly marks for my review mistakes I cannot see. I strike a key and type a word and wait for it to say. Whether I am right or wrong it shows me straight away. As soon as a mistake is made, it knows before too long and I can put the error right. Its rarely ever wrong. I ran this ode through my checker I am sure you’re pleased to know. Its letter perfect all the way, my checker told me so.
Any letter that you’re writing must be properly spelt; with legible writing for the reader may be thick. Use the spell-check always and remember what it does - because in future it’ll happen that you must do it all again. Tell your friends about this letter. Show them everything. But be aware that one mistake may ruin all your work. Words may be spelt all right but not mean what they seem. You would have to know exactly what was meant to understand the whole. Here, in the whole thing, grammatical mistakes are few but some words do seem to be strangely spelt. Punctuation also can be in error. A hint, for simplicity, read it out loud or phonetic- ally, being careful for spoonerisms. Happy Puzzling.
While every word passes the spell-checker, it is clear that there are errors.
AP - adapted and extended from an old favourite.
Comments
Alys
Dear Goddess, I couldn't get past the first three words of the first version without grinding my teeth. Sadly though, this proves that spell check is not always our friend and that is why the human element of editors is needed.
*hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3
I'm old enough to have used a slide rule ...
... as my primary method of doing arithmetic and got used to making approximations so I knew the order of result to expect (I do still use one occasionally because battery life is so good). A spell checker is a bit like that. They're useful if you're not sure. I sometimes type something in, knowing it's wrong and letting the checker save me the bother of opening my on-line dictionary.
I'm currently editing a story by a Canadian writer. Canadian spelling seems to a half-way house between US and UK so I'm never really sure if it's right or not :)
Robi
the worst i have found is
the worst i have found is waste instead of waist.
in 15 years of reading tg fiction, i've lost count of how frequently this occurs.
personally nothing kills a story quicker than when i read of someone putting a corset around their waste.
Ummm, what is so wrong about corset around waste?
Aren't we all trying to reduce the amount of stuff we throw out? -Put the squeeze on it, as it were?
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
I would say that 'discrete'
I would say that 'discrete' instead of 'discreet' happens far more often. I mean, people are trying to hide, aren't they? So of _course_ they do things 'discretely'. (As in, definitely different or separate)
For those who can't tell, the word is actually discreet, as to be hidden or quiet.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I know what yew mean....
Even Jennifer Adams, who I consider to be among the top five transgender fiction authors, made the waist/waste mistake in at least one of her stories. I still love the story, but the error has always been like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
I'm equally bothered by breath/breathe. I can't tell you how many times I've seen sentences like, "He was so excited he could hardly breath." No, he could hardly breathe. "Breath" is a noun ("he took a breath"), "breathe" a verb ("Close your eyes and breathe deeply").
Another one that grates is "use to" ("I use to go to that store all the time, but they closed it"). It's "used to."
Using no caps at the beginning of sentences, as you're doing, annoys me somewhat, but I'm guessing that's an internet convention, isn't it?
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
Well,..... I have seen people shutter.
They just close off like pulling all the shades and locking the doors!
"Shutters!"
Somehow I do not think that was what was intended as the meaning being conveyed. :p
OK, I am in a silly mood!
>i< ..:::
I for one am not 'phased' by spelling mistakes
^_^
Irony Abounds
spelling
Professional authors have published tons and tons of books loaded with spelling mistakes, and tons of grammatical errors.
Yet we have all read them and enjoyed the stories for what they are.
IF you are heart set on picking apart every single mistake you see in a story from any author of any type... well you will probably always have high blood pressure.
In other words. Take things with a grain of salt. Different cultures, different spelling, different meanings. The list goes on and on.
Personally I just read the story and enjoy it for what it is.
Professional v Amateur
Professional writers do their work for money and (generally) have professional proof-readers, editors and similar assistance - amateurs like people on BCTS, FMania and the like do it because we enjoy our efforts being shared.
For many readers, sloppy work detracts from the overall enjoyment; I am glad you can cope with such slippynoss.
AlysP
Well yes, But .....
I do take offense when they transfer the same story to the paid medium *cough* Kindle *cough* and they do not make any further efforts to fix some very egregious mistakes. Sorry, you've just made the leap from amateur to professional and I expect something I paid for to have fewer plot holes and spelling mistakes.
Too right - or maybe two write
Completely agree - when moving a story onwards even a simple run through Word reveals obvious spelling errors and a friendly reader or proofer should help with obvious errors ?
But you say 'You've just made the leap from amateur to professional' and I really don't think I me myself personally has done so.
Maybe I misunderstand something ?
Thanks anyway
AlysP
Erm, the context for you
... is not the personal you but the 'indefinite' you, referring to an author. May I ask if you are a native English speaker? If you are not then hopefully I can clarify that when 'you' is used in this context it also means 'one', implying the 'one' as a person who has made to leap to selling their stories for profit. Now, since I know you have not done such a thing then it should have been clear I was not referring to 'you' as the person 'you'. Understand?
So to spell it out plainly for you: When an author moves their story from free to paid for (Kindle), I expect the spelling errors to be corrected.
Clear enough?
they ne you
The phrase prior to the confusing 'you' used 'they' therefore to be grammatically correct one should have continued with they because you is not they and they may not be you - as you will be aware and they may not be.
End with a smile
AP
('ne' is an abbreviation for 'not equal')
Other Shudder-worthy Mispellings
There were a number of girls lately who were swooning on Twitter about the scent of their boyfriend's "colon",
as in, "I still have the smell of his colon on my fingers."
Of course, they meant cologne.
Also, recently on Reddit, someone asked for an explanation of why a "brain anus rhythm" was fatal -- when they meant brain aneurysm.
colon-cologne
Well one suspects that that particular author would have been using waste deliberately instead of 'waist' - yuk as well as as many other "toilet -to let" puns as were available.
AP