using spell check

[sooblue]

One of the things that have always bothered me about this forum is that you railroaders who handle mile long trains with such ease can't spell worth _ _ _ _.
It makes me wonder what grade you managed to stager to.

In an effort to improve your image I will tell you the secret of spell check.

First type your message, than highlight it and right click your mouse and than click on CUT.

Open your word processor and click on paste and your message will appear there.

Click on spellcheck and your message will be corrected.

Than highlight your message and click on cut and take your message back to this forum and right click on the area that you first wrote your message and than click on paste.

Viola!! You are ready to post your message.

Of course you could simply start off writing in your word processor, spellcheck it and than bring it to this forum.

With practice your posts will look like you are well educated and well able to handle a mile long train.

Ed, your trains are shorter so you only have to spellcheck half your message.

Sooblue (this is what I have to do) *lol*

[louisnash]

!!ssaymssik

Oh My goodness!! My spellcheck spelled it backwards!!

Brian (KY)

[wabash1]

les see i opeen up speed check cloths up micro pressatater play a violin and i pass a speell bee.

did it ever acur to you i could care less about speeling or proper grammer. i must be doing something right couse you read and understand everything i write. Now then i know i spelled cause wrong i got into that habit long ago and have a heck of a time getting it right. along with some other things but it seems i am doing something right cause( imagine that idid it right) i keep moving up the ladder. and if you are going to be in magment to hide the truth at fatality acidents at crossing where we stole the lights and bells and made the engineer run over the speed limit and not blow for crossings. you need at least be able to spell twain dwiver.

[Anonymous]

What ever
TIM A

[eolafan]

Dear MN; To the best of my knowledge, spellcheck only works on Word and e-mail documents, and is not a feature that can be used in connection with these forum messages. Jim

[Jackflash]

Railroad shorthand, seems like a whole lot to do
just to "pass notes", I'm sure most people would
do better if it was important. jackflash

[Anonymous]

OH MR SOO BLUE!!!
Wow, when your slatre is perfectly clean, feel free to comment on others.. but heres a MISTAKE from you!

it's not "VIOLA"

what on earth is that word??

it's "VOILA"

whose got the spelling problem now?
You must have failed french.. Actually that word is pretty much a valid Engli***erm now..

Kev

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREECH OLD BOY!

[edblysard]

Dear Sir,
What ever in the world makes you think I need to use sprell check?
Ed

[Anonymous]

Sooblue: You just highlighted the problem with spellcheck in that it does not check for grammatical errors. I believe you meant to say "then" rather than "than" in your comments. Spellcheck also does not spell commonly used foreign language words or expressions unless you add it to the dictionary. As you can see we all make mistakes, including me.

[JoeKoh]

dab ym spoo
efas yats
eoj dna ttam

[Anonymous]

Huked On FOnicks Werked fer me, they lerned me how to sprell, reed, and right okely! their are know funner things then huked on fonics!

VEK RUOTED.

[GerFust]

MN:

I agree, it can be a pain to read some of the posts and figure out what they are asking or saying.

However, while it would be good for more people to be careful, some loose grammar and spelling usage is to be expected, and is part of being on this post.

Also, please keep in mind that people who have a limited grasp of English, particularly those from outside the States, should be encouraged to post here.

Along those lines, I strongly believe that we have had some posts from developmentally disabled adults or even children. I would encourage their participation as well!

Perhaps we can agree to use some the skills they taught us in grade school, but not get too hung up on others' failure to do so?

[Modelcar]

...Wow...! When I read this initial post on the merits of spelling I figured the poster would get a flood of responses...and of course they are still rolling in.

QM

[zardoz]

For what it's worth, I tried to type some text using Microsoft Word and transfer it via cut & paste; the forum keeps rejecting my message saying "Your message contains language that our site has been instructed not to accept. Please alter the text of your submission." And I assure you, there was nothing in the message that was either offensive nor vulgar. Go figure.

[Anonymous]

Dunt ned nunn of that ther spreel chek

[Anonymous]

That's right. Spellcheck is no substitute for proofreading. A friend wrote a letter to the local newspaper praising his favorite political party for being ethnically diverse, but the editor keyboarding it into the paper's computer used "ethically " instead of "ethnically" which makes a difference. On another occasion a spell checker at the same newspaper turned pianist Murray Perahia into a "pariah." But I'll bet many of the poorest grammarians and spellers who frequent these forums more than make up for it with their model-building skills.

[mnwestern]

Spell check is a great tool, but it will only catch words that are incorrectly spelled, not when you use the wrong, but correctly spelled word, such as the two times you wrote "than" instead of "then." And, according to my Webster's, it is spell check, not spellcheck, unless you meant to write spell-checker. I agree, it would be nice if more would use a spell-check tool on their computers. There would be less room for misinterpretation of a message. But let us not get too hung up on it. After all, we all sometimes get in a hurry.

[mnwestern]

But there are still paper Webster's available. Everyone should have one within reach.

[CShaveRR]

A message that is correctly spelled out, cpaitalized, and punctuated will appear more coherent and probably be better received (I hope I'm speaking for more than myself here).

We know that there ae people out there who can't spell. Some words can be difficult. But if you can use a keyboard, you should be able to figure out how to write an intelligent, acceptable sentence...and to use references that will help you spell words that you aren't sure of.

The people I work with who talk without thinking are perceived as idiots. People take more time to write on these forums than they do to say the same thing...and they still aren't thinking?

I would like to think about what's being said rather than going through an initial step worrying about how to reconstruct the words and sentences.

So just do your best here, please.

[Mookie]

Soo - got my tongue over my eye teeth and can't see what I am typing!

Jen

PS - Got some stories for you - just have to get them on here!

[Anonymous]

U're rite! The spilin on her is atrochus.

[eolafan]

Good and valid point. In addition, most of us took and some even passed "SPELLING" as a subject in elementary shool, WAY back when.

[Anonymous]

I for one am lucky to be able to spell my name. I use a FREE browser add on called ieSpell. You don't have to cut and paste, just click the icon in the tool bar and it checks the spelling of your post.

http://www.iespell.com/

[edblysard]

Funny, But I doubt anyone has missed the content of my postings, or the intent, not only of mine, but of those as brokenly written as Kev's, who has english as a second language, and writes the way you would expect him to.
Read through the rest of the replies to this, and it sounds like a bunch of guys watching a steam locomotive passing. All of them are argueing about wether it has 82" drivers, or 79" drivers, and have gotten so involved in the debate that they couldnt tell you what number was on the locomotive that just went by. They missed the big show, debating a moot point.
The spelling, grammer and punctuation question seems to come up regularly, to the point I have begun to wonder if people are reading the postings for the information they contain, or as a excersise in English Language 101.
Does it really matter that j never uses caps, has bad grammer and punctuation, or thet Kev appears to have a dislexic keyboard?
If it bothers you, dont read my postings or replys, I often add in a extra e where it dosnt belong, and spell badly.
And I can, and do handle a mile long train, even though I can't spell aluminum with out looking it up in a dictionary.
Personally, I don't read these postings for any other reason than I like the content. If all you are interested in is style, spelling and punctuation, and the context and content are secondary, you are missing the big show.
And its a blast, trying to figure out what Kev is trying to say, adds a little fun to the mix.
Now, all you english lit majors can go over this reply, find all the miss-spelled words, point out the missing punctuation, and carry on about the fact that I didnt structure this the way my high school engli***eacher taught me to.
While your busy doing that, I am going to go read some more postings.
You guys Stay Frosty,
Ed

[sooblue]

Now don't go getin huffy Ed. I really did write this only to give all you old heads somethin else to jump on besides RR crossings.

I could have said that you could train a chimpanzee to drive a modern diesel engine. It takes no talent at all. Even NASA sent a chimp into space before men went.

But I didn't say that. I guess I cut deeper with the spelling crack.

What would happen if I mixed the Spell check with the Crossing thing? CROSSCHECK OR CHECK BEFORE CROSSING, or something.
Sooblue

[edblysard]

Not huffy, but just wondering.
Like I wrote, so many of us have gotten into the number of rivets on a old NYC gondola, that quite a few seemed to miss seeing the whole train in the first place.
Plainly put, we seem to get wraped up in the M&M garbage, and spent a inordinate amount of time, myself included, paying attention to their crap, and cabforwards, than discussing railroading, trains, and other stuff. Not to say only railroading should be discussed here, I am dieing to know why Kev was in the bathroom while his girlfriend was taking a shower( as if I didnt know, but I want him to say so).
But we have allowed these three individules and their problems to overshadow everything else. And now, it seems the most pressing thing we can come up with is spelling and punctuation?
I wasnt attacking you, personally, just teh concept that we need spell check to amuse ourselves, or make the postings correct, by some standard. While that may please a nit picker, it takes away the flavor from the postings.
I sat in on one of my wife creative writing classes, and when everyone writes a "perfect" papre, and then pass it around for peer review, its get boring to read them, they all sound the same, regardless of the content.
You can speed read them because every sentence in every papre that starts the with the same phrase, end with the same phrase. Numbs the mind.
I like reading Kev's stuff, I get a kick out of seeing where j gets a little POed, and his writting reflects it, he forgets to use the space bar, and you know he was typing like mad, trying to get it all down before he cools off.
If we all wrote the same, you might as well take the names and monickers away, and lable us as person #1, person #2, so forth and so on.
And I said exactly what I meant in the last line of my reply, if someone wants to critique' my spelling and grammer, fine by me, I have better things to do than worry if I missed a comma.
Stay Frosty there Blue,
and trust me, you will know when I get huffy.
Ed

[csxengineer98]

first of all..i dont have one in reach...second of all..if you want me to have one...send me some cash so i can put one within reach....third of all... how do you know its not just bad typeing skills..and not bad use of spelling... i dont read eveything that is being typed..becouse im to busy looking at this keybord.... so i only see a few words when i look up now and then.... forth....i dont profread nor do i care too.... i get my point across well enought i would think.... fith... you dont need to know how to type when opporating a train...we are moving freight..not writing a friken book..... sixth.... most of my postings are in the wee hours of the morning and im tired... seventh....and most importaint....i just dont give a ***...
so how do you like them apples
csx engineer

[wabash1]

it seems to me that the other railroaders understand what i am saying regarless how i spell it. railroading has a language of its own. and since you are on a railroad site maybe you should be learning how we talk instead of trying to convert us. in other words we talk like we write and you people dont have problems understand us on the radio.

[eolafan]

Them apples? I think, sir, that you have proved the points of all those you lambaste very, very well. Nothing more needs to be said about this issue.

[wabash1]

ED

NOW THAT YOU PUT IT THAT WAY, I JUST NEVER THOUGHT IT MENT SO MUCH TO SO MANY PEOPLE THAT I NEVER USE CAPS, PROPER GRAMMAR, OR THE PERFECT SENTANCE STRUCTURE. ENGLISH WAS A SUBJECT I HATED EVEN THOUGH I RECIEVED A "B" FOR A GRADE.

BACK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THIS WAS A RAILROAD FORUM SITE. IN WHICH WE TALK RAILROADING NOT GRADE SCHOOL GRAMMER. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME

WABASH