Okay, I have made major grammatical and/or spelling errors on every post I just did...and I sorta proofread them too. This grates on my last nerve because I am really anal about spelling and grammar stuff. DH says I was born with a red correction pen in my hand. We even had to stop getting the newspaper because my blood pressure would be so high from all of the typos in it and now my words are forever in cyberspace with horrible misspellings. I am in a cold medicine-induced twilight zone now, but still.

.....slinking off, back to bed

P.S. Please overlook any typos in this post

By Bea on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 02:50 pm:

PAM

By Sunny on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 03:29 pm:

LOL! I tend to re-read my posts too and get so upset when I see a spelling/grammatical error I made. I think to myself, 'too late to change it, everyone must have caught it by now'.

- I blame my mother. She was always correcting my speech and grammar. Once a teacher, always a teacher I guess!

By Janet on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 03:53 pm:

Pam, I can totally relate! I had one in a post this morning and I'm not going to tell you where, because I'm hoping no one noticed LOL! I'm also in cold-medicine mode, and I couldn't balance my teller window just now (hundreds off...my super said she's sure it's just a ticket I forgot, but still!). Only 65 minutes to go now.

By Janet on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 04:05 pm:

Found it! Yay~! (Only 55 minutes to go)

By Moeanne on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 05:43 pm:

Pam, I stopped watching local newscasts for a few months and still dread reading the local newspaper. We moved from a larger city to a much smaller one (Austin, Texas to Beaumont, Texas) and you would not believe the typos in the newspaper. The local newscasts are even worse. It absolutely drives me crazy! I even thought about contacting them and asking if they would like me to proof their copy or even write for them. LOL! My DH just rolls his eyes when I go on a rampage. Then... I look at my posts and cringe because of the errors I've made.

By Ginny~moderator on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 06:41 pm:

Oh, I know the feeling. I found I had actually typed the word "registrating" recently. And I've had to use the QuickCorrect feature in WordPerfect (which I use at work and home) to catch some of my very common typos, like int he or, my son's favorite, doe snot. Seems my fingers don't edit as well as my brain does and sometimes my fingers run away from my brain at a great speed.

What's even worse is that at one time I did study and learn how to use shorthand, and sometimes when I'm trying to think and type at the same time I find myself typing phonetically (shorthand symbols are phonetic and have little to do with spelling, more's the pity). Thank heaven for spellcheck - I just don't use at at Momsview because it is so cludgy (klugy?, kludgy? - who cares?).

By Amecmom on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 07:36 pm:

Sorry - being from the spellcheck genration and the invented spelling, invented grammar generation in school, I've never been much of a speller or gramarian. I'm new to this message board thing and am a little dissapointed (sp?) not to find spell check so I don't look like an idiot when I post.
Just remember - never judge a person's intelligence by their spelling ability, or lack thereof (:.
By the way, how do you get those cute faces in your posts?
Ame

By Melanie on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 07:40 pm:

Ame, click on "Edit Profile" over on the left. Log in and then click "Preferences". At the bottom you will see an option for spell check. (That face was made simply by pressing : and ) without any spaces. : and ( without a space will make a sad face).

By Mommmie on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 07:57 pm:

I used to be anal about spelling. I was a proofreader for 6 years, in fact, and I have a journalism degree. For fun, I used to proofread The Dallas Morning News and send it back to them. One day an attorney I work for saw me doing this and he said, "You really need to get a life, Laura." I told him there was no excuse for these typos in a major metropolitan newspaper. He said, "Does it really matter?"

Well, I guess, in the Big Picture, it doesn't. I don't even notice typos now.

And now that my eyesight is started to go (age-related) I don't even see a lot of the typos I make.

By Bobbie on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:02 pm:

I think post are more about the content and feelings behind them not whether the person can spell.. I mean really. Some days I come in here with five minutes to spare. I don't have the time to sit and double check my spelling. I type what I need/want to say and hit send. I figure that we aren't graded and that if we were the fact that we can still make sense of the point that is trying to be made should give the writer an automatic A++. I have four children, If you sound it out and it is close enough to the way you think it should be spelled I am certain the rest of us will be able to figure out what you are trying to say too. And if not someone will ask.... I am sure many people don't post because they are afraid of how they will be received because their spelling is poor. Tip is the more you write and read the more words you pick up on and the better you spell the next time you post. And we all do just like Ginny said. Type faster than our brains function or vise versa. All that said, don't sweat the small stuff. This is a support group not a spelling bee... By the way, I don't even notice when people miss spell I am to busy trying to get the point they are trying to make and not at all interested if whether they are using proper english or if they miss spelled or miss typed I am just pleased that they feel free enough to see that their input might be important. Happy posting....

By Payday614 on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:17 am:

ditto!

By Dawnk777 on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 01:54 am:

I would like to know how I can type all the correct letters in a word, but all in the wrong order! Like Dwan, for instance, instead of Dawn!

By Ginny~moderator on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 10:52 am:

Aw comeon, Bobbie - some of us are just natural blue-pencilers, and when we who are addicted to "correct" spelling and grammar make an error, we blush for days.

I don't think about spelling or other errors in other peoples' posts, only in mine - and my errors really annoy me when I see them (always after clicking the final "post" button). And I don't think anyone on this board would be so rude as to correct someone else's spelling - I certainly hope not.

By Moeanne on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:30 pm:

Hopefully, this thread won't put anyone off of posting. Definitely not my intent. Just laughing with Pamt and marveling that someone else has the same "hangup" about the newspaper.

Bobbie - I agree. This board is for information/support/encouragement and that message comes across clearly.

By Amecmom on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 05:33 pm:

Melanie-
Thanx
Oops! I mean, thanks
Ame

By Bobbie on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 08:55 pm:

Dawn that is a prime example of the brain working faster than the fingers or vice versa.

By Dawnk777 on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 10:26 pm:

Yes, I believe so. I just move right from the D to the W and forget the a!