Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? 494
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NSN A392-99-964-5927 writes "My handwriting abilities have deteriorated over the years. Putting a real pen to paper, I get frustrated over how to spell correctly, as I am so accustomed to using a keyboard and knowing where the letters are. Having spoken to a few friends, I've found that this has become apparent to them, too. I've noticed that my grammar is also affected; maybe this is because I spent too much time on IRC and lowered my standards. Hand-written words are now becoming obsolete. There is often no need to think about writing anymore, or about how something is spelled. Are other Slashdotters having the same problem? (I'm used to Telex machines, which should give you an indication of how old I am.)"
Yse (Score:2, Funny)
Tpying ahs runed my ablty.
No, but (Score:5, Funny)
it's ruining my ability to finish a
What ability to spell? (Score:3, Funny)
You have to be kidding me. Where would this network be today if I could spell?
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/alt.sex/ [vrx.net]
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/terms/froup/ [vrx.net]
Well, that and the age and alchohol (Score:5, Funny)
My hand hurts (Score:2, Funny)
Your Jealous (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're problem is their are people out they're who got better grammer then ewe and your just jealous.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:5, Funny)
capitalization is especially important - consider the sentence:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe he's using one of those hackable Mac keyboard with all the spare storage and processing?
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
It automatically changes vi to vim?
Re:I don't think it has been a problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Abuse of parenthetical comments? Like having nested parenthetical comments that make reading the original difficult? I do that too.
The recommended solution is the use of footnotes[1], since somebody can jump down to them, read them, then jump back up and easily reread the whole sentence ignoring them[2].
[1] Like this.
[2] Further footnotes allow nesting without any difficulties[3] such as avoiding parentheses mismatch.
[3] That said, nested footnotes should be use sparingly[4], as with too many layers it can be hard to reverse back up the stack.
[4] And recursive footnotes should never be used[4].
[5] Unreferenced footnotes are also something to avoid.
Re:It's not the typing (Score:2, Funny)
Sometimes I'll reply with a link to the Bob the Angry Flower cartoon "Bob's quick giude to the apostrophe, you idiot's" [angryflower.com].
There, fixed that for ya!
Re:It's not the typing (Score:2, Funny)
The same goes' for the misuse of apostrophe's ...
There, wronged it for ya.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm a serial comma fanatic:
To my parents, Anne Rand and God.
Re:I don't think it has been a problem. (Score:5, Funny)
[4] And recursive footnotes should never be used[4].
At least it's a tail-recursive footnote[1], so a good brain will just infinite loop, rather than overflowing the stack.
[1] Unlike a non-tail-recursive footnote[1] would look like this one.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:1, Funny)
italization is especially important - consider the sentence:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
Tsk, tsk. It's OK, though. Based on your previous /. posts, we figured out that you really meant:
"I helped my uncle jerk off a horse."
Re:Well, that and the age and alchohol (Score:1, Funny)
The usual reply [sonoma.edu]:
I halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks aye ken knot sea
Eye ran this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no
It's vary polished in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew
A chequer is a bless sing
It freeze yew lodes of thyme
It helps me awl stiles two reed
And aides mi when aye rime
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud
And now bee cause my spelling
is checked with such grate flare
Their are know faults with in my cite
Of nun eye am a wear
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to be a joule
The chequer poured o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule
That's why aye brake in two averse
My righting wants too pleas
Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas
Re:I don't think it has been a problem. (Score:2, Funny)
(write I (using lisp my-sentences))
Well, (Score:2, Funny)
it could be worst.
Re:I don't think it has been a problem. (Score:2, Funny)
I got stuck reading "And recursive footnotes should never be used" over and over again. Augh!
Re:I don't think it has been a problem. (Score:5, Funny)
Unreferenced footnotes aren't the worst[6] thing you could do.
Re:FingerWorks TouchStream (Score:3, Funny)
u r untitled to ur opinum but my spellin is a gd as evr!!!!1
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
When programming in lisp (a programming language (something that can be compiled into machine code) where syntax (rules for writing (typing) commands) is based (fundamental idea) on parentheses ( ( ( left parenthesis) and ) ( right parenthesis) ) ) one can fall into the habit of using ( and ) (parentheses) in excess (too much (surplus)), though this is another problem (the issue discussed (may be it (the use of parentheses in excess) should not be mentioned here(the discussion of spelling).
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
I can't spell but it doesn't matter....Google knows what I meant!
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Next time, try to pick it down from the shelf first. Much easier.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:1, Funny)
I helped my parents, Anne Rand and God, jack off a horse.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:3, Funny)
My fingers know the password to my sperm bank.
Re:I don't know, but... (Score:1, Funny)
> To my parents, Anne Rand and God.
That's Ayn Rand, you Socialist! Ayn rhymes with "mine." ~