Do you worry about spelling?

France
October 14, 2006 10:05am CST
I keep mis-spelling things when I post here but there is no edit button. Does anyone else feel embarrassed when they notice they have spelt things wrong but can't go back and fix them?
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
2 Feb 07
My spelling tends to be a bit erratic, so I use the Firefox browser which has a spell checker which will automatically spell check any text that you are writing.
@fishmore (24)
• United States
15 Oct 06
I know that I do. It takes away from the post when there are numerous spelling errors. Hopefully, they will fix that in the future.
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@rhinoboy (2129)
2 Feb 07
Have you seen the email that went around, showing that you don't actually read every letter of the words as you skim over text. Apparently, provided the first and last letters are in the correct position, you subconsciously guess the word. I;m quite a stickler for spelling, but my poor typing normally ends up in several errors that I never notice until I'v ecompleted posting (even when I use previews!!). A little test: Tehre ocne was a lttile man taht epxrieecend dfifiuctly wtih tpynig. Could you read the above sentence? This may only work for those with English as their first language.
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Been there, done that. I hate it when I mistype something or misspell something where it makes it hard to read. I try to be careful or if I'm doing a big post, especially a discussions I will copy it over into outlook express and do a spell check. On the average post I don't do this unless I'm unsure on some words in it, then I will. I wish there was an edit button as well because sometimes you just don't catch things at first but you will later on.
@mimatexas (1818)
• United States
3 Feb 07
I do worry and I see you can't go back to fix your spelling. The only thing to do is to read back before you hit the post response button.
@Salehd (131)
• Syria
5 Feb 07
I agree with you totally, also, I used to write in word, spell check, then cut-paste, but Here I can't paste so I really annoyed:(Spelling error)