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by mg at 05:03 PM on February 14, 2005
People will warn you about the dangers of not using spell check before sending out emails at work. Well, I’m here to warn you about the dangers of using spell check at work.
Earlier today I was composing an email and completely mangled the spelling of the word "analyzing." My abuse of the English language looked something like this:
analysizing
Before hitting "send" I hit "spell check," which has admittedly saved my ass more than one occasion. However, this time it conspired to cause me embarrassment and personal and professional shame. The suggested re-spelling for my distortion of "analyze" was:
anal sizing
I decided to hit send anyway.
comments (17)
At work I use a lot of medical terms, none of which are recognized by the Spell Check God. She suggests all sort of outlandish shit, all of which I adopt. I will try to come up with some more examples. SCG has a dirty mind.
Does anyone really know how to spell chlamydia?
by Anna at February 14, 2005 7:30 PM
I blame spell check for the degrading spelling ability of society and myself. I punctuate all wrong, rarley capitalize "I" and expect all grammatical errors to be washed away by it.
My biggest pet peeve is the auto format though. I don;t know how many times i have tried to space something just right and the auto format just will not allow it. I say if people aren't smart enough to spell and format right they deserve to be exposed as the idiots they are (myself included).
by dominathan at February 14, 2005 11:19 PM
Yo. Autoformat is evil. For a program that is used by so many Word can be so damn impossible to do some exact tabbing or something. I worked someplace once that had a word processing department and they showed me how to make Word show all its "behind the scenes" formatting tags, but I've since forgotten how to do it.
On a weird, unrelated note, the wife an I played Scrabble for the first time tonight. To tell you all what an awful speller I am I actually put down the letters "P - A - C - H - E" and the wife asked "What the hell are you trying to spell?" I said, "That isn't how you spell patch?"
by mg at February 14, 2005 11:30 PM
When I was in seventh grade, my Language Arts teacher taught the class how to type things like business letters: tab over four inches and type your name, hit the carriage return, tab over four inches and type the first line of your address, etc. I still use the format today... it's so proper I'm sure I could write a letter to the President with it. It's so much better than being at the mercy of Microsoft Word and trying to decide if the "Marquee" letter template is more professional or the "Dots" one is. It was probably the most valuable thing I learned that year (besides algebra).
by jean at February 15, 2005 3:23 AM
I have trouble with 'marshmellow' or 'marshmallows'.
by lockheed at February 15, 2005 3:59 AM
When it starts a list with numbers, I can't make it stop. So I wind up with numbered items that don't belong in the list. I even had this problem writing an email to my boss. Bah.
by Anna at February 15, 2005 7:28 AM
I wish I could remember the words I have frequent trouble spelling. It is only when I get to the word as I'm typing that I remember, and the fear and panic set in. Spelling has always been my downfall. I remember in fifth grade my teacher handed back a spelling test that I must have failed (I don't remember now), I was so pissed off I gave him the finger and almost got suspended.
by mg at February 15, 2005 8:09 AM
I am awful at spelling. that's why I became a designer. Let the editor worry about it!
by MrBlank at February 15, 2005 1:16 PM
I love Scrabble. It turns out when you play a lot it becomes a game of strategy, not spelling. The key is to place your tiles that have higer point value on the double and triple letter spots, and always go for mor than one word. When it comes down to it if you put a 3 letter word in the right place it will score you more points. You get to count the three letter word plus potentially 3 2 letter words... It really adds up.
by dominathan at February 15, 2005 1:51 PM
I love it. You don't even have to care about the mistakes as you type, just hammer away and get whatever you're trying to say out, and then go over it when you're done. I can watch a million wiggly lines appearing and still carry on, most people stop and pause forem. My space bar is frooked thanks to fairly heavy HL2 gaming... Heh. Word usually does a good job of sorting it out as I fire through the text. Sometimes doesn't, but I go through it myself and stick em in when I need to. I miss em sometimes, as is evident in some posts I type in word, but eh, who cares right?
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at February 15, 2005 2:53 PM
I was trying to finish my textiles coursework last week, but kept running into slight problems because MS Word insisted that I wanted to type "bondage" instead of "bondaweb".
I don't know what it thought I was designing...
by Megan at February 15, 2005 3:45 PM
With "bondage" Word thought you were probably designing the same thing Outlook thought I was writing about with "anal sizing."
Anal sizing reminded me of the goat.cx guy. (Seriously not safe for work. Seriously not safe for home, either.)
by mg at February 15, 2005 6:43 PM
So when can I look at it?
by Anna at February 16, 2005 5:59 PM
GOAT.CX website has been suspended by the registry. waaaaahhh
by JC the Lesser at February 22, 2005 9:31 PM
Um....what the hell is this site about......me and my friends are sittin here and staring at things we dont understand....please explain.....o and ya kno what....I HAPPEN TO LOVE SPELL CHECK SO STOP DISSIN OKAY?!?
by yolanda at March 11, 2005 3:49 PM
please i want to talk to you by tomorrow.please can you take me to u.s to do the job for you to pay me
by maxwell at March 16, 2005 4:50 PM
"Yolanda, is that you? Daaaaayum baby! Whatchu do to your hair!?"
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at March 16, 2005 5:09 PM