[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Spelling
- From: Cindy <cindyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:05:25 -0800
I love it!!!
In a way, though, it's not so funny. smile There are a lot of such spelling
errors in the list posts caused not by careless typing and non-checking, such
as mine, but by people who I know can't see and spell the way they think the
word should be spelled--homonyms.
Cindy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:41:01 -0400
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Spelling
>
> That is why we say "Excellent almost no errors" so that if we do change
> things we weren't supposed to, because most of us don't actually "see"
> the
> text, it is o.k. smile.
>
> All I can say about Spell check, is see the below poem, smile.
>
> Your spell check says it is spelled completely correctly.
>
> obviously it is not.
>
> Smile.
>
>
> The following poem appeared in a UK national daily. If you run it
> through a
> spell checker it is accepted as no errors, but make sure the grammer
> checker
> is turned off.
>
> Text begins:
>
> I have a spell in chequer
> It came with my pea sea
> It plainly marques for my revue
> Miss steaks I kin not see
> As soon as a mist ache is maid
> It nose bee four two long
> and eye can put the error rite
> It's rare lea ever wrong
> Eye strike a quay and type a word
> And weight four it two say
> Weather I am wrong or write
> It shows me strait a weigh
> Eye have run this poem threw it
> I am shore your pleased too no
> It's letter perfect awl the weigh
> My chequer tolled me sew.
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
> and Judson, guiding golden
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 3:33 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question on Spelling
>
>
> Faulkner, like many authors, invents words and also has very creative
> spelling which may or may not be caught by his publishers and the
> scanners
> or validaters. Even when caught, how does one decide on what to correct
> or
> not to correct. So far my choices have been hit or miss but as a rule I
> try
> to stick with his spelling even when it is just misspelling - he often
> uses s instead of z in words like realize and I try to leave them as I
> think
> he wrote them even if he had not meant to misspell the words. I am a
> devout
> believer in the idea that an author's intentions are irrelevant when
> dealing
> with what s/he actually wrote even if we know them. I have, however,
> heard a
> lot of the opposing point of view to admit that correcting misspellings
> is
> not altogether wrong.
>
> Having read so many misspelled papers by freshman composition students
> that
> I am not always sure of correct spelling, I often look up words but if
> you
> don't know the correct spelling looking up a word in a dictionary is not
> particularly easy. Thank heavens for Spell Checks but they, too, are not
> always reliable. I would welcome more comments on the subject.
>
> Amy
> omsm
>
>
>
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