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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: Why Sperling doesn't include a spell-check. |
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| I've wondered about this for some time. Other forums, such as www.ajarn.com have one built in. My e-mail server offers one. Spell-check is everywhere. Then it hit me, an epiphany, as it were. Dave deliberately doesn't offer spell-check here in order to separate the players from the pretenders. If one is selling one's time and energy as a teacher of English in these parts, then that particular skill, however scantily based (hell, a BA in bee-keeping will land a job here), ought to be reflected in the posts here. Sloppy English implies a sloppy work-ethic. If you can't tell the difference between 'its' and 'it's', then what are you serving up to your students? Yes, we're frequently lumped together as a bunch of misfits and/or losers who are here to score some easy cash and violate the local maidens, but some of us are here to refine our craft. Where I toil, the money isn't great, but I get better at this racket every day. I take my work quite seriously. I show up every day with the intention of doing the best existential job that I can do. And that is why I'm offended when the pretenders show up, and frankly, they make the rest of us look bad. (The locals can't always tell us apart.) I didn't intend this to turn into a rant, but it is the Solstice, and I suppose that I could be hanging at Stonehenge right now, with a head full of 'shrooms. That's never going to happen. Have a fine summer, teachers and pretenders. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:12 am Post subject: |
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| Dave deliberately doesn't offer spell-check here in order to separate the players from the pretenders |
I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate assertion. It would be useful to have one here though.
I do try my best to spell/punctuate properly given my chosen profession--with a few shortcuts for message board writing. I can understand those who are trying their hand at teaching might not be as precise but perhaps being put through the exercise of teaching English all day their spelling/punctuation/grammar have improved as a result? |
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justagirl
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Cheonan/Portland
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: |
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perhaps being put through the exercise of teaching English all day their spelling/punctuation/grammar have improved as a result?
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....or the exact opposite! I know after 4 years of teaching in Korea, my vocabulary, grammar and intellectual conversations all decreased. It was like my brain was coasting down a slope to basic English. Thank God for grad school (which, by the way, I just graduated from!)   |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| How bout a Konglish detector. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
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| Dave deliberately doesn't offer spell-check here in order to separate the players from the pretenders |
I'm not sure that's an entirely accurate assertion. It would be useful to have one here though.
I do try my best to spell/punctuate properly given my chosen profession--with a few shortcuts for message board writing. I can understand those who are trying their hand at teaching might not be as precise but perhaps being put through the exercise of teaching English all day their spelling/punctuation/grammar have improved as a result? |
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel as though I have to check every word I use on here. Other times, I don't care. Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it.
It really depends for me. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| phpBB2 doesn't include spellcheck - sperling needs to switch board software to get that feature. read the feature list here: http://www.phpbb.com/features.php |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Why Sperling doesn't include a spell-check. |
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| Spell checkers really don't help. |
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lawyertood
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul, Incheon and the World--working undercover for the MOJ
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| The problem with the use of a spellcheck function is that it doesn't catch the your/you're type mistakes. People are much too reliant on it as a cure-all for spelling deficiencies. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel as though I have to check every word I use on here. Other times, I don't care. Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it.
It really depends for me. |
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Dude, you are not getting off that easy. You're jolly, you're good-natured, you're posts often lead to discussions that people seem to enjoy but there is NO WAY the author of "rebuttle" and "I have never resulted to" is getting a pass on his writing with an excuse like:
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| Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it. |
Embrace your limitations. I don't try to act like I don't come off, slightly, acerbic once every now and then. Twice a year, perhaps.  |
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patchy1
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: No, not patchy's sock. New account because old account got mucked up.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Foriegn Englsih teachas dont need no speling chek, watcha torkin bout? |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Foriegn Englsih teachas dont need no speling chek, watcha torkin bout? |
I'm suffering kyopo fatigue. |
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patchy1
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: No, not patchy's sock. New account because old account got mucked up.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Teaching God (who goes by the name of cubanlord in human form) doesn't need SpellCheck. Because if He spells a word a certain way, "that's the goddam fricken way it's meant to be spelled, because "I'm TEACHING GOD, FU%K IT - & GO 'N' BURN IN HELL if you dare question ME!"
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=59707 |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
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Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel as though I have to check every word I use on here. Other times, I don't care. Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it.
It really depends for me. |
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Dude, you are not getting off that easy. You're jolly, you're good-natured, you're posts often lead to discussions that people seem to enjoy but there is NO WAY the author of "rebuttle" and "I have never resulted to" is getting a pass on his writing with an excuse like:
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| Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it. |
Embrace your limitations. I don't try to act like I don't come off, slightly, acerbic once every now and then. Twice a year, perhaps. |
 Can you blame me for trying?  The other two are true though. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel as though I have to check every word I use on here. Other times, I don't care. Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it.
It really depends for me. |
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Dude, you are not getting off that easy. You're jolly, you're good-natured, you're posts often lead to discussions that people seem to enjoy but there is NO WAY the author of "rebuttle" and "I have never resulted to" is getting a pass on his writing with an excuse like:
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| Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it. |
Embrace your limitations. I don't try to act like I don't come off, slightly, acerbic once every now and then. Twice a year, perhaps. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel as though I have to check every word I use on here. Other times, I don't care. Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it.
It really depends for me. |
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Dude, you are not getting off that easy. You're jolly, you're good-natured, you're posts often lead to discussions that people seem to enjoy but there is NO WAY the author of "rebuttle" and "I have never resulted to" is getting a pass on his writing with an excuse like:
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| Rarely, I throw stuff in to see if someone will pick up on it. |
Embrace your limitations. I don't try to act like I don't come off, slightly, acerbic once every now and then. Twice a year, perhaps. |
Can you blame me for trying? The other two are true though. |
Sure, sure. That goes for all of us. Especially when we PWI. |
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