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im not the most educated person and i struggle with spelling and grammer as most of you know lol, also for a lot of people in this forum english is their second language, would a spellcheck be possible admin ? even if you could add one during the next upgrade. most forums seem to have one now.
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thank you lol, but quite often i cant write exactly what i want due to not knowing how to spell a certain word, mostly words i rarely or never use but it would still be nice.
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I dont think it matters too much, I know some ppl get real upset over a miss placed ., bad spelling etc, but most of the time it dont matter. init ight.
"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."
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It's impossible to get a spellchecker that will fix it automatically, and people will never use it if they have to do something active for it to work, ie. correct their errors etc. If only it was certain words that were normally misspelled, it would be possible for the forum to do a "search & replace", but since there's probably alot of different way to misspell alot of words, I doubt the list will ever be comprehensive enough.
Grammar etc - that's even more (more impossible).
The best thing is to just use the builtin stuff in firefox etc.
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Or go back to collage and get an edumacation, spilt it wrongaly on purposamocosus, God I need my car back, who needs a MOT, its fine grrrr, i got stuff to do god damn it. Topic off went did I.
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i do use spellcheck on other forums that have it built in (manual version), i just thought if was easy to install then it would be worth doing, but its not a major concern.
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Does it check grammar too? And what happens if you spell "erors" instead of "errors", does it call you names, does it just fix it, or does it say "somethings wrong with something in your post" ?
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Posted by Administrator: Does it check grammar too? And what happens if you spell "erors" instead of "errors", does it call you names, does it just fix it, or does it say "somethings wrong with something in your post" ?
its just an ABC button you can press whist posting, if your unsure of a certain word you use it, simple.
------------ its the same as any other spellcheck ive used, only the buttons right there to use if you want, its just a convenience thing. and no it doesnt check grammer that im aware of.
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My question still remains What happens when you push it then, and if you spell "erors" instead of "errors", does it call you names, does it just fix it, or does it say "somethings wrong with something in your post" ?
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Posted by intentcity4: ------------ its the same as any other spellcheck ive used, only the buttons right there to use if you want, its just a convenience thing. and no it doesnt check grammer that im aware of.
So basically it just tells you which words are misspelled and offers what it thinks is correct, to be replaced with?
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yes, when you press it, it goes through all the words it finds doubtfull one by one and gives you a list of possible replacments which you can either change or ignore, it also has a built in dictionary if you want to look up a meaning of a word. , i just find it handy thats all.
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yeah, it wouldnt be worth losing any sleep over, i just thought if it was a simple add on then it would be worth it. note that all the forums ive seen it on are the same "forum model" if that makes any sense. heres an example *link removed*
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Your link just went to a login page, so no worry, but I removed it anyway.
I doubt we will be able to get such a thing here, unless there's already a plugin available that can be converted or something. Probably easier that people just learn a little bit english
What happens when you push it then, and if you spell "erors" instead of "errors", does it call you names, does it just fix it, or does it say "somethings wrong with something in your post" ?
