Anyone remember me?

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  1. friend_al_23

    friend_al_23 New Member

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    I could bother doing that but like I said, it really takes time for me to load MS Word. Don't have that high class computer, y'know. Yup, I know. Wrong grammar / spelling. And sometimes after MS Word loads, my Internet Connection disappears, and have to re-connect again. :( Suya. :(
     
  2. xento

    xento New Member

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    And most of us can spell well enough to be legible WITHOUT a spellchecker. Actually, you should learn to spell correctly without help from anything like that.

    I don't like MS Word much as far as just typing goes. If I have a short post, or a medium sized one, it would just be a waste of time.
     
  3. DarkUnderlord

    DarkUnderlord Administrator Staff Member

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    Taking Menion's advice, we decide to run his own posts through the MS Word spelling and grammar checker. This is what happens:

    We turn all of this:

    ... into this:


    However, as you'll note, MS Word has great difficulty translating garbled rubbish. So, by running it through my own brain, I get this:

    Note how in this sentence, we've made use of the question mark. Question marks are used when someone asks a question as in: Why is Menion retarded? We also changed the "on Microsoft Word" to an "in Microsoft Word".

    In this sentence, we removed the "say" (I felt it was redundant), added in an "it" after copy and put a comma afterwards, and removed the word "do". "Do paste" was too funny. I could've added in an "a" so it became "do a paste" but decided to just drop "do" altogether.

    Here, I presume Menion is not talking about himself. So the option of changing this sentence to "My posts are spelling free" was discounted. I decided to instead change it to "a" as I presume Menion is talking about the post. Also, a post that is "spell free" seems to be the problem in the first place, so I changed it to "free of spelling errors".

    This sentence suffered from too many "ands". As such, I decided to break it up. As you can see, we added a full-stop after "mimimize it" (NOTE: I left the American spelling of mimimize). I then capialised the "It's" (adding an apostrophe in the process) and followed it with a "then" for the next sentence. "A next reply" was changed into "your next reply".

    "It's" in this case is the short form of "it is", as such, I added an apostrophe.

    Here, we changed "Its" to "it", corrected the typo in maybe and changed "right" to "correctly" (right is a "bad word" like "got"). I also added in two commas and a question mark.

    In this case, I fixed the apostrophe and correctly spelt "fucking"

    This sentence, which makes no sense in the first place, was difficult to alter.

    As you can see, it's all much more coherent.
     
  4. Etalis Craftlord

    Etalis Craftlord New Member

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