NWN and the English language Options

[x2lls]

So what happened to using a spellchecker?

[dannyboy]

And ... “I thought I was going to chock to death, I was petrified – I thought, this is it.”

Nasty thing chocking to death!

I think the quote is using Lancashire vernacular.

[Biker1]

So what happened to using a spellchecker?

Wouldn't work would it as "chock" is a legitimate word.

[CBW137Y]

The victim was also “struggling to breath”.

[JeffG]

I have just worked it out! They must be using the same spell checker as the editor on this forum, which (like the rest of this software) is American. Not only does it ban inconsequential words, like d a m n, but it underlines in red words like "tyre" and "colour". ("Tire" and "color" are just fine.)

[Berkshirelad]

Same article:

"sandwichs"

[Berkshirelad]

Same article:

"sandwichs"

[Biker1]

The "chock" has been corrected anyway.

[dannyboy]

The "chock" has been corrected anyway.

That many mistakes will be a hard act to follow.

[blackdog]

I have just worked it out! They must be using the same spell checker as the editor on this forum, which (like the rest of this software) is American. Not only does it ban inconsequential words, like d a m n, but it underlines in red words like "tyre" and "colour". ("Tire" and "color" are just fine.)

This forum doesn't have a spell checker - presumably your browser does.

[JeffG]

This forum doesn't have a spell checker - presumably your browser does.

Hmm. Maybe it's Chrome for Android then. Although Chrome help explains how to set up spell check language, that doesn't appear on the Android version. Will have to see what Windows does.

[GMR]

A thread to let of a little steam about bad English in the NWN or NewburyToday.

Here is the first - a headline on NewburyToday today:

Walrus, horseshoe, handlebars? Gentleman opt for the musketeer moustache for Movember

Gentlemen opt, a gentleman opts. Hopefully just a typo ...

I think people are being a bit unfair here. With society trying to dumb down and appealing to the lowest denominator we must give credit to those papers (and official forums that represent those papers) for trying to reflect that dumbness in society.

[Exhausted]

I don't get too stressed about the NWN cockups. It's a local rag for local people, many of whom speed read it anyway, look to see who was born, died and in between had a birthday or got married.

Talking about getting married, who noticed the photograph of the chappie in a grey suit and trilby with his lovely new wife in her splendid wedding dress. Nice, but why is he wearing trainers.? (been watching the gin advert perhaps)

[Biker1]

I don't get too stressed about the NWN cockups. It's a local rag for local people, many of whom speed read it anyway, look to see who was born, died and in between had a birthday or got married.

More than once my family have put announcements in the NWN only for one or more of the names to be spelled wrongly even though plainly quoted in the submission.

[Exhausted]

More than once my family have put announcements in the NWN only for one or more of the names to be spelled wrongly even though plainly quoted in the submission.

Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s).

[On the edge]

Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s).

...which of course any good actress would have done as well.

[Biker1]

Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s).

To be fair they did but I would rather it be correct in the first place than a refund or second, corrected, insertion.
It's not that difficult to read what's plainly written in front of you.
Is it?

[Cognosco]

To be fair they did but I would rather it be correct in the first place than a refund or second, corrected, insertion.
It's not that difficult to read what's plainly written in front of you.
Is it?

Dyslexic Staff member?

[Strafin]

Reminds me of a joke,

A dyslexic man walks into a bra...

[CBW137Y]

The one thing which annoys me whilst trying to read some of the online reports is the lack of understanding what a paragraph is!

It rather distracts from the lack of ability to spell somewhat.

One hope there is some training on offer to brush up there English skills.