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Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell?
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.)"
Tpying ahs runed my ablty.
it's ruining my ability to finish a
HAND.
You have to be kidding me. Where would this network be today if I could spell?
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Thank god for spill check.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When I get out the fountain pen I write about two lines and my hand starts to hurt. I have to stop and use a dictionary to spell and I have to think before I write otherwise my sentenced on-run and make don't sense much.
I think you're problem is their are people out they're who got better grammer then ewe and your just jealous.
capitalization is especially important - consider the sentence:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Maybe he's using one of those hackable Mac keyboard with all the spare storage and processing?
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
It automatically changes vi to vim?
Ezekiel 23:20
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.
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Sometimes I'll reply with a link to the Bob the Angry Flower cartoon "Bob's quick giude to the apostrophe, you idiot's".
There, fixed that for ya!
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
The same goes' for the misuse of apostrophe's ...
There, wronged it for ya.
I'm a serial comma fanatic:
To my parents, Anne Rand and God.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
[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.
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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."
(write I (using lisp my-sentences))
it could be worst.
I got stuck reading "And recursive footnotes should never be used" over and over again. Augh!
Unreferenced footnotes aren't the worst[6] thing you could do.
u r untitled to ur opinum but my spellin is a gd as evr!!!!1
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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).
Doesn't always help. Stolen from Wikipedia: "Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
I can't spell but it doesn't matter....Google knows what I meant!
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Next time, try to pick it down from the shelf first. Much easier.
I helped my parents, Anne Rand and God, jack off a horse.
My fingers know the password to my sperm bank.
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
> To my parents, Anne Rand and God.
That's Ayn Rand, you Socialist! Ayn rhymes with "mine." ~