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Thread #35984   Message #494535
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
29-Jun-01 - 01:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Down with spell-checkers
Subject: RE: BS: Down with spell-checkers
Could someone elucidate perchance?

Spellcheckers are mostly a toy as far as I'm concerned... learn a good standard of English and you shouldn't need it, particularly as even the English spellchecker comes up with American spellings, rejecting perfectly valid and original spellings. For example, it won't accept bollocks, but will take bollix.

The tool that is corrupting most people's English now is the text message system on mobile phones where you are charged per character, thus encouraging numbers for words, single letters for words (How R U 2day) and no punctuation, which infuriates me. Maybe that's why my bill was through the roof!!

LTS