Spellchecker needed here!

ringbearer · 10-01-2001, 11:44 PM

I have seen forums using this same format with this option...can it be done, or is it too cost prohibitive?

Sakata · 10-02-2001, 12:06 AM

I secent that! I suck at speling!!!

***Ben*** · 10-02-2001, 05:15 PM

Hmm.... I don't see the need. Besides, half the words we use here (Gandalf, Thuringwethil, Boromir, etc...

) aren't going to be found in a dictionary, and a spell checker will try to change them into something. (You can't have meant "Baggins," we have replaced it with "Bargains"

)

Just proof-read your posts. And if necessary, type them up in Word first and do a spell-check there.

Renille · 10-02-2001, 11:09 PM

I really, really, really dislike spell checkers. This might be a hint that I can spell without one, but still... I can't stand the way it mutates all the names I put in!

That was a senseless post, I know....

But I'm really tired right now....

ringbearer · 10-03-2001, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bmilder
Hmm.... I don't see the need. Besides, half the words we use here (Gandalf, Thuringwethil, Boromir, etc... ) aren't going to be found in a dictionary, and a spell checker will try to change them into something. (You can't have meant "Baggins," we have replaced it with "Bargains" )

Just proof-read your posts. And if necessary, type them up in Word first and do a spell-check there.

I had not thought of the Proper names it would say are misspelled! I wonder what a spell checker would do with Withywindle!

Reverie · 10-22-2001, 12:47 PM

If you can spell Withywindle or Thuringwethil you don't need a spell checker!!

ringbearer · 10-22-2001, 09:35 PM

I actually wanted the "checker" for others, from some of the posts I've come across...

!

emplynx · 01-30-2002, 06:22 PM

LAST POST BUMP! A spelchecre wolld be knic. I ain't muckh of a spler

Laurelyn · 01-30-2002, 06:40 PM

yeh, a spel checr mite bee nise. but it wood indied mes up da namez . . . .
Translation for the above gobbledegook:
Yeah, a spell checker might be nice, but it would indeed mess up all the names.

And think of what it would do to Quenya . . .

Sakata · 01-30-2002, 08:14 PM

on my hotmail spell checker, and others, you can add words so everytime you type something it will pick it up only once, so you could add gandalf and stuff and it would be like a lotr spell check.

galadriel88 · 01-30-2002, 08:31 PM

Couldn't you get one that you select spell check and it tells you what it doesn't like, but doesn't change anything unless you say to? On the really old version of Word that we had it was like that. You could also add words to the Dictionary, like Sakata's.

athelas · 02-01-2002, 07:30 AM

NOOOOOOO!!!!! horribble sssspelllll checkerses......they doesn't lets us type anyhow, preciousssssss....ssssstupid sssssquigggly red lineses under all our words. And they is not crunchy or tasssty. We hates it, we hates it forever!!! gollum...gollum

Laurelyn · 02-01-2002, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by athelas
NOOOOOOO!!!!! horribble sssspelllll checkerses......they doesn't lets us type anyhow, preciousssssss....ssssstupid sssssquigggly red lineses under all our words. And they is not crunchy or tasssty. We hates it, we hates it forever!!! gollum...gollum

Hee hee . . .lol . . .

***Ben*** · 02-02-2002, 07:50 PM

You can proofread your posts "manually," and use a dictionary if unsure as to proper spellings.

If you're too lazy to do any of this, then you deserve to look ignorant with incorrect spelling

.

Sakata · 02-02-2002, 07:54 PM

Thanks a lot Ben, so I have to spend 3 hours on every pos unless I want to look like and itdiot

ragamuffin92 · 02-02-2002, 07:58 PM

YEW TEL HYMN, CICADA!!

P. S.--athelas--I just saw your last post. It was great!!

CardenIAntauraNauco · 02-02-2002, 11:00 PM

And what if I sent in a picture of myself, the computer might change it into "smelting" because im not a word!

10-01-2001, 11:44 PM	#1
ringbearer Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: St. Louis, Mo. USA Posts: 561	Spellchecker needed here! I have seen forums using this same format with this option...can it be done, or is it too cost prohibitive? __________________ Ringbearer Hide Witch, hide! The Good Folks come to burn thee! Their keen enjoyment hid behind A Gothic mask of duty!

10-02-2001, 12:06 AM	#2
Sakata Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 216	I secent that! I suck at speling!!! __________________ "When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will know no fear." -Psalms 27:2-3 -Dare you venture into Gollum's Lair? JESUS LIVES!

10-02-2001, 05:15 PM	#3
*Ben* Retired Ent Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 60,631	Hmm.... I don't see the need. Besides, half the words we use here (Gandalf, Thuringwethil, Boromir, etc... ) aren't going to be found in a dictionary, and a spell checker will try to change them into something. (You can't have meant "Baggins," we have replaced it with "Bargains" ) Just proof-read your posts. And if necessary, type them up in Word first and do a spell-check there. __________________ ---Ben formerly known in the forums as bmilder Owner of The Tolkien Trail and Entmoot. Buy Entmoot shirts and mugs!

10-02-2001, 11:09 PM	#4
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	I really, really, really dislike spell checkers. This might be a hint that I can spell without one, but still... I can't stand the way it mutates all the names I put in! That was a senseless post, I know.... But I'm really tired right now.... __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

10-22-2001, 09:35 PM	#7
ringbearer Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: St. Louis, Mo. USA Posts: 561	I actually wanted the "checker" for others, from some of the posts I've come across...! __________________ Ringbearer Hide Witch, hide! The Good Folks come to burn thee! Their keen enjoyment hid behind A Gothic mask of duty!

10-22-2001, 12:47 PM	#6
Reverie Enting Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Back Home!! Posts: 57	If you can spell Withywindle or Thuringwethil you don't need a spell checker!!

01-30-2002, 06:22 PM	#8
emplynx Self-Appointed Lord of the Free Peoples of the General Messages Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,214	LAST POST BUMP! A spelchecre wolld be knic. I ain't muckh of a spler

01-30-2002, 06:40 PM	#9
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	yeh, a spel checr mite bee nise. but it wood indied mes up da namez . . . . Translation for the above gobbledegook: Yeah, a spell checker might be nice, but it would indeed mess up all the names. And think of what it would do to Quenya . . . __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

01-30-2002, 08:14 PM	#10
Sakata Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 216	on my hotmail spell checker, and others, you can add words so everytime you type something it will pick it up only once, so you could add gandalf and stuff and it would be like a lotr spell check. __________________ "When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will know no fear." -Psalms 27:2-3 -Dare you venture into Gollum's Lair? JESUS LIVES!

01-30-2002, 08:31 PM	#11
galadriel88 Halfwitted Queen of Lothlorien Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Far off in a dream Posts: 1,166	Couldn't you get one that you select spell check and it tells you what it doesn't like, but doesn't change anything unless you say to? On the really old version of Word that we had it was like that. You could also add words to the Dictionary, like Sakata's. __________________ The beuatiful mind/The beautiful heart/Doesn't deserve the pain/How can I stop the rain? -How Can I Stop the Rain? by Kessid, my new favorite band +Every good thing that comes into my life is only a reflection of the greatest gift of all; the offering of yourself, dear Son of God+ Always remember, you're uniqe, just like everybody else! "The one constant through all the years has been the Trombone. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but the Trombone has marked the time. This field, this section, this band is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again. Oh, people will come . . . people will most definitely come."

02-01-2002, 07:30 AM	#12
athelas Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Twilight Meres Posts: 87	NOOOOOOO!!!!! horribble sssspelllll checkerses......they doesn't lets us type anyhow, preciousssssss....ssssstupid sssssquigggly red lineses under all our words. And they is not crunchy or tasssty. We hates it, we hates it forever!!! gollum...gollum __________________ Farewell sweet earth and nortern sky, for ever blest,since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lùthien Tinùviel more fair than mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled unmade into old abyss, yet were its making good, for this-- the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea-- that Lùthien for a time should be. "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."-Frodo FRODO LIVES!!! (erm...Sam does too, right?)

02-02-2002, 07:50 PM	#14
*Ben* Retired Ent Join Date: Sep 1999 Posts: 60,631	You can proofread your posts "manually," and use a dictionary if unsure as to proper spellings. If you're too lazy to do any of this, then you deserve to look ignorant with incorrect spelling . __________________ ---Ben formerly known in the forums as bmilder Owner of The Tolkien Trail and Entmoot. Buy Entmoot shirts and mugs!

02-02-2002, 07:54 PM	#15
Sakata Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 216	Thanks a lot Ben, so I have to spend 3 hours on every pos unless I want to look like and itdiot __________________ "When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though a mighty army surrounds me, my heart will know no fear." -Psalms 27:2-3 -Dare you venture into Gollum's Lair? JESUS LIVES!

02-02-2002, 07:58 PM	#16
ragamuffin92 Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: New York State Posts: 309	YEW TEL HYMN, CICADA!! P. S.--athelas--I just saw your last post. It was great!! Last edited by ragamuffin92 : 02-02-2002 at 11:07 PM.

02-02-2002, 11:00 PM	#17
CardenIAntauraNauco Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: rural oklahoma Posts: 324	And what if I sent in a picture of myself, the computer might change it into "smelting" because im not a word! __________________ "We will have peace","Yes we will have peace...we will have peace when you and all your works have perished - and the works of your dark lord to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar,Saruman,and a corrupter of men's hearts. You hold out your hand to me and I percieve only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just - as it was not,for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine, for your own profit you desired-even so, what will you say of your Torches in westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Hama's body before the gates of Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc. So much for the House of Eorl. A lesser son of greater Sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers. Turn elsewither for I fear your voice has lost it's charm.

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