Spellcheck and review your post before publishing
2009-02-18 14:40:17 | Tags: English, Spellcheck, Writing | Comments »
A snip of output from yesterday brainstorm – literally. I discovered something weeks ago, and yesterday as I came back to blog it prompted me in my mind taskbar
Because I run several blogs I have several inputs (comments), and some people alert me that I make spelling or grammatical mistake here or there. I thank them for nudging me but I still had in mind that my English is good. Well, it is good, but not good enough. Forgive me this wrong, I’m really not a native English speaker, born in Hungary, live in the Czech Rep. and I really learnt English. I did not get it by breastfeeding, really, really.
So the thing I started to do is to give some extra time to review what I wrote before publishing it. That tiny button: spellcheck, yes, it is where you see the ABC tick. It’s a handy button and I happen to click on it recently quite often before publishing anything. That’s for the first step. Second, even though spellcheck is nice but just an dumb stupid robot, hence, I take my time to read through what I have just written. This is really helpful because sometimes not only I found some grammatical mistakes, next to the spelling mistakes but also I seem to change several things for I don’t to like some things I wrote. So this is what I do: I change the sentence, word order, delete word, add word, punctuate, and yes, I spellcheck because I don’t trust that dumb stupid spellbot. It’s really helpful, and it really works, but please tell me if you got me in making an Engrish mistake
#Update:
The spellcheck found me “speelcheck”, “descovered” and “taskbar” – but taskbar as 1 word is really ok I think. Anyways, it helped me filter out 2 basic mistyping, that comes handy even if you are native English speaker, because anyone can make a typing msitake mistake (I really made this msitake blurbdsada mistake, honestly, not just for the sake of the post). And to tell you my fav word what I always mistype is “Englsih” – for this word I don’t really need the spellbot since I correct it automatically just as I type (it’s so regualar), though I still make this bad mistake and it bugs me a lot. It is English not Englsih!
##Update: I just ran another spellcheck and it popped me about “jsut” that is my other regular misytped word.
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