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Old 06-15-2013, 02:10 AM
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^ Looks like you were in a hurry here too.

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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
That makes sense. Several folks here have grammar, spelling and or typo issues that give me headaches(no offense meant)....And I have a better tolerance for spelling errors than average thanks to being part of a failed teaching experiment in kindergarten called "see and say". It was a moronic program that had children infer the text based on what the word looked like and the pictures in the book. It did not help me read one damn bit, and my folks had to teach me phonics on their own to do what the folly of the system could not. As a result when I see a spelling or word I'm not familiar with my brain automatically reads(and often sees) it as the closest spelled word I know, and I have to recognize that the approximation does not fit the context of the sentence in order to force my self to go back and apply phonics and sometimes guess work to then get it right.

Those who want to improve their spelling should use Firefox as a web browser. It spell checks what you type on sites like this....At least mine does with the addons I have. Many little spelling errors I would recurrently make have gone away from the constant corrections.
Took me a few seconds to figure it out myself. I use Firefox too, it spell checks, but I don't have any extensions that would help it along.
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