Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Andrei on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 5:15pm
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Interesting - I read that fluently.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 5:46pm
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I've seen that before and it's really quite astonishing.
On the other side of the coin, sometimes people misspel 1 word and it renders a sentence unreadable.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by fishy on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 6:24pm
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remove the correct grammar and capitalization, and i'd imagine it wouldn't work quite so well. some font sizes or colour schemes can screw with my ability to read fluently, due to some damage to my retina just right of centre. it causes the letters slightly to the right of where i'm reading to colapse into nothingness sometimes, and then reappear as i scan past them. it can be a nuisance, but the doc says my eyes are in better condition than most, and i'm just unlucky to have this blind spot in the exact place that i do. hmmph...
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Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Myrk- on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 6:56pm
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True fishy, still fun to read though. They should make books like that!
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Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by satchmo on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 7:00pm
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iveseenthatbeforebut someof theposts aremuchworse than nothavingtheproperpunctuation. Things justallrunintooneanother. Damnit'shardtotypelikethiswithout the spaces.
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Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by French Toast on
Tue Dec 6th 2005 at 9:13pm
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Without
1. Grammar
2. Punctuation
3. Keeping the first and last letters in place
It would fail miserably. Those are things that posts we speak of lack.
And also, who the hell really wants to read that? Spell correctly!
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by French Toast on
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Faer is the msot sacry gmae I hvae eevr plyaed.
And you konw how tehre is the Sierra lgoo at the sratt of Hlaf-Lfie 1? I toghut Valve mdae the gmae?!
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Crono on
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Sierra is a no longer existent distributer (Owned be Vivendi).
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by FatStrings on
Wed Dec 7th 2005 at 3:07am
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ive seen this before, actually it got emailed to all of my high school english teachers and they showed it to us
by the way satchmo, i read your post with ease
the only thing that gives me trouble reading at a normal speed is 1337,
i can't stand it when i see whole paragraphs written in 1337
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Mephs on
Wed Dec 7th 2005 at 5:29am
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Yeah I saw this a good while ago, I love these kinds of things. One
thing I noticed is that spellcheckers don't do that good a job on
correcting it, despite all the letters being present, its something
that could surely be used to improve them...
Also I'm amazed that those ever improving spambots haven't incorporated it somehow to get round filters...
*runs to the patent office and sets fire to the thread. MY idea, MINE!
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Crono on
Wed Dec 7th 2005 at 6:01am
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One of the first thing a spam filter looks for is an abundance of mis-spelled words.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by SpoolE on
Wed Dec 7th 2005 at 10:18am
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Ah, I read that about 5 years ago, lol! Its just psychological - your brain reads the word as a whole.
I would love to change the world, But they would'nt give me the source code.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by French Toast on
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Hmm, the eaiml part confused me. I think it has to be e-mial.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on
Thu Dec 8th 2005 at 3:48pm
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It basically means someone got dissed, and that it probably stings a
lot (for Nickelplate in this case). Zing is like the sound of a
bullet flying through the air.
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by Addicted to Morphine on
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Oh and it's not something serious, like a personal and angry insult or
anything like that, someone usually yells out Zing after one good
friend has a go at another.
If people are fighting for real, others usually try to stay out of the way :smile:
Re: People who chronically misspell words cheer up, there is hope.
Posted by FatStrings on
Fri Dec 9th 2005 at 3:25am
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there there Nickel, it's all right
/me give Nickel a hug