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JerryLerman [BareFark]
2006-07-26 2:24:37 PM  
The headline includes the word "spellcheck" which isn't a word. It just keeps rolling. :)
 
ChairmanKaga
2006-07-26 4:06:43 PM  
Its a pitch.

/You would have paid NO attention to this otherwise.
 
HulkHands
2006-07-26 4:20:23 PM  
From the article:

"The release quoted TextTrust as saying that it used both human editors and special spell-checking software to scour Web sites for spelling mistakes. "TextTrust wants to make sure that organizations never again receive the 'I found a spelling error on your web site' e-mail," it said."

so is web site' another blooper, or is it the reporter's fault?
 
dogfat
2006-07-26 6:04:13 PM  
So is teh ghey considered correct spelling?
 
SomeGuyFromColorado
2006-07-26 6:05:44 PM  
The guy that wrote Grammatik (the first grammer checker) lives across the street from me. He has not worked a day since he sold it to WordPerfect. Good for him.
 
Capt. Happy Hour
2006-07-26 6:08:14 PM  
I LO'D.
 
Robobuu
2006-07-26 6:08:16 PM  
ChairmanKaga: Its a pitch.

I do believe the word you were looking for is spelled "it's."

/I'm sorry.
 
Perducci
2006-07-26 6:08:49 PM  
I second ChairmanKaga.

I bet a gazillion dollars that this was intentional. Why else would anyone care about a press release regarding a spell-checking program?
 
kb7rky
2006-07-26 6:10:16 PM  
Yu gots two addmitt, spel chicking werks wunderz four everbuddy
 
don't understand
2006-07-26 6:15:02 PM  
What a moran.
 
nytmare
2006-07-26 6:16:38 PM  
Fark people who write "grammer."
 
madcat033
2006-07-26 6:17:04 PM  
HulkHands: so is web site' another blooper, or is it the reporter's fault?

It's called "putting quotes within quotes." You see, when you quote someone within a quote, you use just a single apostrophe, instead of quotation marks! In this case, "I found a spelling error on your web site" is a quote within a larger quote!

English, motherfarker! Do you speak it?
 
ZoeNekros
2006-07-26 6:18:39 PM  
I predict this thread will be full of spelling errors and corrections.

kekeke
 
Perducci
2006-07-26 6:20:41 PM  
No way, ZoeNekros, you'll never see that in a Fark thread. Ever.
 
Sgian Dubh
2006-07-26 6:24:09 PM  
submitter: If you're the press agent for a spell-checking software package, it helps to use your own product on your press releases

so exactly how would that have helped? "we" is not misspelled.
 
invisibelle
2006-07-26 6:36:46 PM  
As someone with a PR degree, assuming this was intentional, I think that's pretty ingenious.

However, as someone whose vocation happens to be editing web copy, I hope this program never, ever gains popularity. heh.

/replaced by robot
 
pope of chilitown
2006-07-26 6:48:21 PM  
I have a spelling checker
I disk covered four my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot see.
Eye ran this poem threw it.
Your sure real glad two no.
Its very polished in its weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
 
Hogwasher
2006-07-26 7:00:36 PM  
Spell check works so well:

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
 
Tophersky
2006-07-26 7:12:02 PM  
I've always wondered, what does 'sic' mean??
 
LeroyB
2006-07-26 7:23:44 PM  
2006-07-26 07:12:02 PM Tophersky
I've always wondered, what does 'sic' mean??

"sic" is used when you're quoting something that contains a spelling or grammar mistake.

The "sic" part says "yes, I know it's wrong, but this is exactly what was said or written"
 
LeroyB
2006-07-26 7:24:58 PM  
..."sic" is also used when a quote contains a factual error.
 
frightwig
2006-07-26 7:25:38 PM  
I've always wondered, what does 'sic' mean??

Going to google usually results in an answer to anything you might be wondering. ;-)

It just indicates an incorrect or unusual spelling. It comes from a Latin word, meaning "thus" or "so".. although many people mistakenly think it's an acronym for "spelling incorrect". Same meaning though..
 
Tophersky
2006-07-26 7:27:42 PM  
Thank You Leroy.
 
Toyvo
2006-07-26 7:27:54 PM  
Irony tag on strike or something?
 
safeinsane
2006-07-26 7:47:04 PM  
If you're a company that teaches IT courses, make sure you know how to spell "instructors" correctly.

/web proofreader
//definately doesn't work for company mentioned above
///yes, definately :)
 
sistersludge
2006-07-26 7:47:54 PM  
Spelling In Context, however it was originally spelled when given to the quoter. Editors/writers use it to show that the spelling/grammar mistake is not their own but the original author's.

At least that's what I was taught.
 
YetiHunter
2006-07-26 11:49:13 PM  
frightwig
If I had a nickel for everytime I hear a question asked aloud in the office that could easily be solved by googling it or just using the help feature in said program, I would be rich.

/google, its you're friend
/yeah, I know its your
/yeah, I know it's it's
 
YetiHunter
2006-07-27 12:05:59 AM  
/every time
 
Larva Lump
2006-07-27 12:14:40 AM  
Software can't replace education.

Clue-by-fours don't help much, either. About a year ago I came across a correctly spelled incorrect word on the web site of a local TV station. I sent them an email with a screen shot of the problematic paragraph with the word highlighted in red, two links to an online dictionary for the correct and incorrect words and a link to a Fark thread with a particularly entertaining demonstration of grammar Nazism. Here it is a year later; the site's been revamped and the copy still has the same error (first paragraph.)
 
Tiiba
2006-07-27 12:59:26 AM  
Ah, so this is what Reuters does all day... Didn't you guys know that a shoemaker is always barefoot?

"""From the article:

"The release quoted TextTrust as saying that it used both human editors and special spell-checking software to scour Web sites for spelling mistakes. "TextTrust wants to make sure that organizations never again receive the 'I found a spelling error on your web site' e-mail," it said."

so is web site' another blooper, or is it the reporter's fault?"""

Read that again...
 
Sgian Dubh
2006-07-27 9:29:48 AM  
Tophersky: I've always wondered, what does 'sic' mean??

It means, "look in a dictionary for the defintion of 'sic.'"
 
Osore
2006-07-29 10:48:39 PM  
Larva Lump: That's hilarious.. I'm assuming they're trying to say "gambit," not "gamete."

/unless, of course, he disaproves of office farking
//then he's just a wanker
 
Larva Lump
2006-08-02 12:51:33 AM  
Osore

Larva Lump: That's hilarious.. I'm assuming they're trying to say "gambit," not "gamete."

Actually: gamut
 
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