Is there a spell checker icon on the Gn's Forum site I can use

Hey Jim · Guru

Is there a spell checker icon on the Gn's Forum site I can use

Very happy camper · Veteran Member

Hi Jim

I think most of us have to check our spelling.

I do not know of a spell checker on the forum but what I do is type my message in a word document and then check the spelling and then copy the text to the forum,

I only read or write to the forum from my home PC or Laptop Computer so this works for me,

If others use an iPad or Mobile Phone to communicate with the forum they may answer and tell you how they manage.

We learn something every day so who knows what we may learn from your question

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Have auto correct on phone . Often a pita !! At home there's. Various downloads, extensions of Google etc ..

dorian · Guru

I cut-and-paste corrected text from my email software.

Otherwise, you could use something like this:

Free Online Spell Checker:
freespellcheckers.com/

BaupleNut · Senior Member

It just comes up underlined in red if the word is spelt wrong and then simply right click and correct or is that to hard for ya? biggrin

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Saturday 14th of May 2016 08:59:14 AM

laurieoz · Senior Member

Yes - my spelling mistakes are also underlined red and the right click to choose the correct spelling.

Maybe this is just a feature of certain browsers

The Phantom · Guru

Hey Jim, perhaps a Syntax Checker could be useful as well.

The Phantom

Hey Jim · Guru

Thanks everyone,

I get by 95 % of the time. I'm just thinking of some of our fellow GN's who would like Toooooo, but sit back and follow the rest. cry We have a neighbour who we help with his correspondence. He has come such a long way from not been able to read and write well. He loves the GN's and now has his own Lap top.

Jim & Lambie

Steve11 · Senior Member

hi, just write your information in a "word" document, then copy and paste it to here. That way you can use word spell check.

cheers

03_Troopy · Guru

Hey Jim, the option for spell check will be in your browser settings. In Firefox (what I am using) it comes up under Options->Advanced - [ ] Check my spelling as I type.

JayDee · Guru

BaupleNut wrote:
It just comes up underlined in red if the word is spelt wrong and then simply right click and correct or is that to hard for ya?
Bauplenut
A bit of a smart arse comment :" or is that to hard for you."
I now understand why you call sign is Bnut.
I am sure the original post was not meant for this sort of comment from you.

Jay&Dee

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Saturday 14th of May 2016 08:59:14 AM

BaupleNut · Senior Member

Mmmmm

Tony Bev · Guru

Hello everyone

Perhaps a spell check icon on the forum, would not be such a bad idea

It would be to our loss, if a genuine person is hanging back, from posting useful information, or not joining in the friendly conversation, because they feel that their spelling/grammar is not the best.

I post from behind a computer or laptop, with a built in spell check, as I am just a simple person, and not a potential scribe

I do remember in years past, reading that someone said that only fourteen people use Linux, as it has no spell check, or words to that effect
Later on LibreOffice Writer (Linux Word), had a built in spell check

dorian · Guru

Here is an example where I didn't even get close to the correct spelling, but Google came to my aid:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=lay+down+mazaire

From Wikipedia ...

An open or lay down misere is a 500 bid where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table. Consequently, 'lay down misere' is Australian gambling slang for a predicted easy victory.

My spell checker didn't offer any useful alternatives.

Radar · Guru

Interesting tropic, I mean subject,

I would like something better on my Samsung tablet, if I am typing the word and I close to being correct it predict the possible word butva few moments ago I was trying to spell the word culinary but coud not make it come up correct as I had put e where i should of been. At home on the PC using windows 10 with mircosoft office it will correct my misstakes, flaws.

I am a hands on person not a writer but the GNs have taken me to a new level of communication. My spelling and writing I believe is getting better but a spell checker for my tablet would be great.

03_Troopy · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
Hello everyone

Perhaps a spell check icon on the forum, would not be such a bad idea

It would be to our loss, if a genuine person is hanging back, from posting useful information, or not joining in the friendly conversation, because they feel that their spelling/grammar is not the best.

I post from behind a computer or laptop, with a built in spell check, as I am just a simple person, and not a potential scribe

I do remember in years past, reading that someone said that only fourteen people use Linux, as it has no spell check, or words to that effect
Later on LibreOffice Writer (Linux Word), had a built in spell check

So do your web browsers running under Linux Mint.

Bruce and Bev · Guru

if youre using Microsoft, in settings you have an option for auto spell check (make sure you pick the preferred version of English you want, or you may end up with the American version - if it bothers you).

Whatever website you are on or if you are using a Microsoft tool, like Word, it will bring the word up underlined in red. Right click on it and it will give you suggested correct spellings and punctuation. If you really misspell the word - it wont help you as it just doesn't recognize badly spelt words. It will also underline syntax mistakes and underline that sentence and all the following sentence's.

The Phantom · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
Hello everyone

Perhaps a spell check icon on the forum, would not be such a bad idea

It would be to our loss, if a genuine person is hanging back, from posting useful information, or not joining in the friendly conversation, because they feel that their spelling/grammar is not the best.

I post from behind a computer or laptop, with a built in spell check, as I am just a simple person, and not a potential scribe

I do remember in years past, reading that someone said that only fourteen people use Linux, as it has no spell check, or words to that effect
Later on LibreOffice Writer (Linux Word), had a built in spell check

Libre Office is not an exclusively Linux app. It is an office suite the same as Microsoft Office. The difference is that it is free and open source and, thus, usually ships with a Linux distro. Hence it has a reputation as being a Linux app.

It is a bit like the word "celibate". The common meaning is to abstain from sex, but the original and correct meaning is to "not marry". In the days when the Church ruled society it was not permissible to have sex outside of marriage. Therefore if a person was not married, they did not have sex. The modern interpretation has evolved that if a person is not having sex, they are celibate.

The Phantom

Hey Jim · Guru

Hi all,

Wow! Life is a learning curve. Thanks everyone, we never stop learning. something new every day. I may yet become another Barry Jones. BP PickaBox

Sorry The Red made me do it. biggrin

Jim

The Phantom · Guru

Hey Jim wrote:
Hi all,
Wow! Life is a learning curve. Thanks everyone, we never stop learning. something new every day. I may yet become another Barry Jones. BP PickaBox
Sorry The Red made me do it.
Jim

You would be at Expert Level on the Jayco questions

The Phantom

PeterD · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
Hello everyone

Perhaps a spell check icon on the forum, would not be such a bad idea

There is no need to add unnecessary features to the forum when every browser either comes standard with a dictionary or one can be installed as an addon. Look at the options for your browser and find how to add a dictionary or turn it on.

If you use Firefox, go to Tools > Add-ons and in the "Search all add-ons" box type in "Australian Dictionary." The first offering that comes up is an English (Australian) Dictionary.Click on the "Install" button on the RHS and you will get a dictionary tailored to Oz language. It will also correct most of the town and river names in Oz.

dishlicker · Senior Member

WOW how technical i still use a book called a dictionary. It works for me.

dorian · Guru

dishlicker wrote:
WOW how technical i still use a book called a dictionary. It works for me.

The first person pronoun should be capitalised, irrespective of what some affected grandchild may tell you. Also there should be a period after "technical", or an exclamation mark, according to your preference.

PeterD · Guru

dishlicker wrote:
WOW how technical i still use a book called a dictionary. It works for me.

The problem of not using a spell checker is you do not realise the mistakes in your text and the fact you need to refer to the dictionary. If you used a spell checker it would have pointed out you die not capitalise the personal pronoun and you would not have been left open to criticism.

dorian · Guru

PeterD wrote:
The problem of not using a spell checker is you do not realise the mistakes in your text and the fact you need to refer to the dictionary. If you used a spell checker it would have pointed out you die not capitalise the personal pronoun and you would not have been left open to criticism.

I think this thread proves that no matter hard you try, or how many tools you have, a mistake will always get through unnoticed, except by a pedant like me who wants to capitalise on it.

PeterD · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
I do remember in years past, reading that someone said that only fourteen people use Linux, as it has no spell check, or words to that effect
Later on LibreOffice Writer (Linux Word), had a built in spell check

Microsoft Windows does not have a spell checker in it either. The spell checking function is provided by the programmes used to compose text. The Linux programmes have had spell checkers back as far as I can remember. OpenOffice.org had a checker in 2000, AbiWord pre-dated that. We thus have had spell checkers in Linux for longer than caravan forums have been around.

For those copying and pasting from word processors, try switching the grammar checker on. (Maybe not I reckon that some on this forum would only get one message a week out if they tried a grammar checker.)

-- Edited by PeterD on Sunday 15th of May 2016 03:39:23 PM

Bruce and Bev · Guru

Dorian - your very dry sense of humour cracks me up every time. Pity so many here don't seem to understand it or don't even realize when you are - but for the rest of us, please keep it coming :)

"The first person pronoun should be capitalised, irrespective of what some affected grandchild may tell you. Also there should be a period after "technical", or an exclamation mark, according to your preference."

"I think this thread proves that no matter hard you try, or how many tools you have, a mistake will always get through unnoticed, except by a pedant like me who wants to capitalise on it."

PeterD · Guru

dorian wrote:
PeterD wrote:
The problem of not using a spell checker is you do not realise the mistakes in your text and the fact you need to refer to the dictionary. If you used a spell checker it would have pointed out you die not capitalise the personal pronoun and you would not have been left open to criticism.
I think this thread proves that no matter hard you try, or how many tools you have, a mistake will always get through unnoticed, except by a pedant like me who wants to capitalise on it.

Yes, spell checkers only check for misspelt words and not wrong words. Spell checkers do have limitations.

Possum3 · Guru

dishlicker wrote:

WOW how technical i still use a book called a dictionary. It works for me.

Then Dorian and Peter commented on points of grammar.

Yet, no-one picked up on the fact that we should be using a Lexicon for spelling checks rather than a Dictionary. Although I do note that most publishers of these guides are confused on such.

-- Edited by Possum3 on Sunday 15th of May 2016 04:28:14 PM

The Phantom · Guru

Possum3 wrote:

dishlicker wrote:

WOW how technical i still use a book called a dictionary. It works for me.

Then Dorian and Peter commented on points of grammar.

Yet, no-one picked up on the fact that we should be using a Lexicon for spelling checks rather than a Dictionary. Although I do note that most publishers of these guides are confused on such.

-- Edited by Possum3 on Sunday 15th of May 2016 04:28:14 PM

Possum (I'm beginning to sound like Dame Edna) I think you are trying to be a bit too clever. A lexicon is not a dictionary.

The Phantom

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