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Maybe there should be some sort of law that requires everyone where some sort of modified electric dog collar so that every time someone types in "lol, wut r u sayin" - they get 10,000 volts.
This kind of technology should probably also apply to trolls, spammers and politicians.
They shouldn't say it seems that way, they should say it is or it isn't. This is weak writing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. Well done, and not a bad idea. The spelling Nazi in me was already rejoicing. Loved this line: "We observed that non-technical staff with Internet access are more likely to use their computers to view and collect pornography than to post spelling corrections." The "clue gate" in the last paragraph is the final giveaway.
I'm an apostrophree beta tester. When I read your comment I saw "The spelling Nazi in me was already rejoicing." It really works!
P.S. If you could, please send me an invite for the beta. Thx!
The poor spelling found on the Internet creates a positive feedback loop that makes it increasingly difficult to spell words properly.
Before wide acceptance of the Web, most written words appeared in magazines, books, newspapers, and other sources which were, hopefully, reviewed by professionals with more knowledge of spelling than the average person. If you were unsure of a spelling you could write out the word and easily recognize if the word matched the ordering of letters that you had seen so many times before.
Now, for some words, you've probably seen the improper spelling more often than the correct spelling. That makes it more difficult to recall or recognize the proper spelling. For children subjected to this misspelling onslaught at an early age, it must be worse. I suppose many of these spelling problems would not even exist if English were a more intuitive written language. However, I expect this all to go away as grammar checkers are embedded into web browsers.
That had me going for a while.
Me too. Well done, and not a bad idea. The spelling Nazi in me was already rejoicing. Loved this line: "We observed that non-technical staff with Internet access are more likely to use their computers to view and collect pornography than to post spelling corrections." The "clue gate" in the last paragraph is the final giveaway.
If only something like this was real... or there was some other way of correcting the general butchering of the English language that occurs. Maybe there should be some sort of law that requires everyone where some sort of modified electric dog collar so that every time someone types in "lol, wut r u sayin" - they get 10,000 volts. This kind of technology should probably also apply to trolls, spammers and politicians…