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With respect to spelling, doesnt the forum have a bot to check on spelling? If not, maybe having one would save some effort; at least in checking spelling.

Offtopic but, I know, I know. What I should have said to qualify my statement was that I usually forget to do what you suggested, and end up with topic titles that dont make sense. I read the FAQ; just venting a bit because I had messed up that topic just earlier today

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A bot to check spelling automatically? Well I do not think any forum could do that - for one thing if it finds a word that is misspelled then what does it do with it if there are three correct versions of the word, but meaning different things? There must be human intervention hence the spell checker which in itself is a bot - it finds everything for you, makes suggestions, etc. I know that one moderator, Farseer, is a tickler for this - she is my 'bot' in this area .

Offtopic but, In other words you were being a child of rebellion?

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Bot? Moi?? Perhaps so in this case -- since most of the time I can't help myself. But I'm not going to go around editing other people's posts - most would find that rude. I do edit topic titles when I notice them, and if I think it's necessary, though I can't access all of them (like RPG titles [hint hint]).

Roz

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Yup. Why would you want to access RPG titles? The whole idea no one but me can access that area is because it is part of the game and players would say that the 'Mods' could change posts so why can't we... Now with that said, let us keep in mind that we seem to be bringing up 'Cafeteria' type issues within a public forum

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I cannot be worried too much about spelling when first of all, English is a foreign language to me and second, I still learning it! Reading the posts of all of you help me a lot!

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I have always excelled at spelling, but there are still a few words that I'll occasionally flub. (restaurant, vacuum, souvenir...) Others' poor spelling used to drive me nuts since I manage an assortment of my own forums elsewhere online. I am a staunch supporter of individual expression(within reasonable limits), so I force myself to leave these glaring errors exactly as the posters submitted them.

I became curious as to the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension and expression, especially since I have a globally delayed son learning to read and write. Humans learn languge phonetically, or by how words sound. Thusly, people with seemingly horrendous language skills, particularly in the area of spelling (ruling out learning disabilities), mostly tend to express written words with their working comprehension of the alphabet in the manner they feel adequately portrays their intended meaning.

Likewise, while well educated people frequently find this method of communication not to their liking, it is still understood- phonetically.

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I am the king of misspelling, there is no pride in that and I DO check my speeling every post but still have grammar problems. Hope in time will improve:)

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I am sorry, but 'speeling'? Did you mean spelling? The spell checker just looks for the correct spelling, but it cannot figure out what word you meant to use, so it may be necessary to skim over your text to ensure that is what you meant to say.