^^Indentity? Idenntity? Identinty? 
Little Spelling Bastards
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^The first one. I have no idea why. It's like when I catch myself deleting the first R in particular.
manoeuvres. did i even spell it right then?
Honestly, When I was going to school, way back in the 80's we didn't have any such thing as spell checkers. We had to do it the old fashioned way, we learned. Now I know I'm getting old, when I can say you kids these days have it easy.
Lazy Americans, you can't even be bothered to write the whole word so you drop vowels and move letters around
I often have trouble when writing, like Chris does, with harass and embarrass - how many Rs?
Not at all. Spell checkers are like cruise control -- they can reduce your workload a little so long as you monitor their results, but if you assume they can do it all for you, you're headed for disaster. I've been hearing about cases where reporters careless with their spellcheckers were publishing stories about presidential candidates such as John Moccasin, Mike Hackable, Rude Giuliani, and Barracks Abeam.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005313.html
I'm actually more worried for the day that future generations will communicate exclusively by saying "lol brb imho ftw." I'll never get it. Then again, I'm the same kind of person who grimaces every time I see "teh". As a typo, it's understandable, but to purposely type it is not cool or hip, it's unoriginaly and monumentaly stupid. It always reminds me of the classic warning about crossing your eyes... Sorry about the rant. 
Or even unoriginally and monumentally stupid?
Christopher said:
Or even unoriginally and monumentally stupid?
lol
Way back in the EIGHTIES??? Come back when you have a little more gray hair, sonny. You kids ... and stay off my lawn, too!
--Ted
Well, I've just been going over copyedits on Places of Exile, and apparently I still have problems with "indispensable" (I used -ible) and "embarrassing" (I used one R) -- and on one occasion I misspelled one of the alien character names I created! Which isn't the first time I've done that. I should keep lists of character names or something.
Slightly O/T, but was Lynne Truss' work "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" realised over the other side of the pond? I recall reading it here a while back and finding it quite entertaining. She makes a lot valid points about incorrect use of apostrophes and poor usage of the english language in general.
I hate it when people spell my name wrong!
Unfortunately, I was Christened Keith, People still send cards and presents with Kieth written on it!
Currently reading: "Creative Coupling"
next up: Best Destiny
Unfortunately, I was Christened Keith, People still send cards and presents with Kieth written on it!
Currently reading: "Creative Coupling"
next up: Best Destiny
Speaking of names that should be easy to spell but people can't seem to do it...
My name is Adrian. But I've seen all of the following:
Andrian << this pops up quite frequently, I have no idea where the extra "n" comes from.
Adrain << This one pisses me off because I'm not "a drain"
Adrien << this is at least "close enough"
Adren << WTF?!!
Adrin << WTF?!! again
Adriane
And of course the various female versions:
Adrienne
Adrianne
What's worse though is people who are reading my name spelled correctly but say "Andre." I'm like: WTF? Moron!
My name is Adrian. But I've seen all of the following:
Andrian << this pops up quite frequently, I have no idea where the extra "n" comes from.
Adrain << This one pisses me off because I'm not "a drain"
Adrien << this is at least "close enough"
Adren << WTF?!!
Adrin << WTF?!! again
Adriane
And of course the various female versions:
Adrienne
Adrianne
What's worse though is people who are reading my name spelled correctly but say "Andre." I'm like: WTF? Moron!
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