Let us have a moment of silence for the ..."Spelling Police"

[Stuart G]

and another moment for the .." Dictionary Devotees"..........

I used to use the dictionaries a lot. But that seems to be a thing of the past, due to this particular machine that I am typing these words on. Somewhere, somehow the program, corrects spelling mistakes automatically. How is that done?...Why is that done?...Who did it? Didn't the criminal who did this realize how much it would hurt the sales of my favorite reference ..."The Dictionary" ???

Now this new parameter doesn't work always, but most of the time it does it in a correct way. And it does this in a way, that is automatic, right away, instantly... no time to look up the spelling. I don't really know what else to say other than this....I hope this helps someone, somewhere, out there, get our minds off of "politics" into the important venue of ........."Dictionary Devotion".............................

..........................................................................................................................thank you...

[global1]

1. Eye Down No Wad Your Paint His......nt

[Stuart G]

2. I am not sure what you mean by that one?...definition of that please?

[ExciteBike66]

3. I have a funny story about the "Spelling Police"...

My kid has one of these little race car sets (https://www.magictracks.com/). His came with a police car and a fire truck. However, the police car actually says the word "Poilce" on the side.

[Stuart G]

5. You mean to say the idiots who made the toy car, cannot spell?

Where were the toy cars made?..how did this get past the "Spelling Police"? Do you think this was done on purpose? Is this an anti-police company? oh my................... ....send in the FBI on this one

[ExciteBike66]

6. Well, I am 100% sure it was made in China, so there is that.

And in China, I am sure that there are various secret police organizations. And the fact that they are secret means we can never truly know if there are "spelling police" or not. And even if we did know, we could not also know whether the company that makes the toys is anti-secret-spelling-police or not, since they would of course not just come out and say it in an authoritarian society where the mere idea that they (the company) are anti-police would subject them to secret-police jurisdiction.

Does that answer your question?

[hurl]

4. "The first time I read the dictionary...

I thought it was a poem about everything." - Steven Wright

[pressbox69]

7. Not sure

if this is a spelling issue but I belonged to a political page where you had to write Richard Cheney, Richard Durbin, Richard Van Dyke, you were not allowed to type Dick. LOL

[Stuart G]

8. Now, what is wrong with the word "Dick" are you referring to Dick Nixon??

What is it with the word "Dick"? You are not trying to bring up "a dick" are you? I have heard rumors that we men have this item..Am I going to get into trouble with the spelling police for mentioning that?

Or is it the Democratic Underground police who don't want us to use the word ..."Dick" or is it "dick?"

or is it "click" or stick ? I cannot understand the problem.....I often see the work F**K on some of these pages...I have used it myself....but what about a "Dick"? I am too confused this morning.. need to take a nap ........................oh no....................is that a butt? or a but? or a rear end?? oh no..it is a smilie.......
what should I do???? I know, play the violin...

or maybe have a donut............ ....or better yet.....hide.....

[DFW]

9. I haven't seen any Spelling Police

And anyone can make a typo.

However, those people who regularly write in Republicanese instead of English are another matter. There is no school anywhere in the English-speaking world, for example, that teaches that plurals are written with an apostrophe. Yet, in most right wing blogs (and, occasionally, now even here) one sees just that. For example: "I still like the Clinton's" or "those people are our enemy's" or "that had ruined my plan's." No one who went to school in an English-speaking country was EVER taught to do that.

Or take interchanging "your" and "you're," or interchanging "they're," "there" and "their" at random. Those are not just spelling mistakes. Those are different words entirely that happen to sound alike. Interchanging them at random is no spelling error. That is re-arranging the language, and it is something else entirely. A spelling error is a minor error in English. The rest is writing in Republicanese.

[Stuart G]

10. you are a very lucky person ....DFW....

I have been stopped by the spelling police right here at Democratic Underground.

Occasionally an important word is misspelled by my computer,(yes the computer did it)... and a kind and wise fellow DU policeman/or police woman points that out to me. I wonder if anyone else has been stopped right here by the " Democratic Underground Spelling Police" ? I have just a few times........

[DFW]

12. Maybe I just have a better getaway car

Or else it's just that I live in Europe, am on a different time zone, do not live in my computer, and probably miss more than a few replies to my posts.

[Tipperary]

13. One I see here a lot is rein and reign.

People do not seem to know the difference and the words have vastly different meanings.

[nocalflea]

11. If only I could bow my head in silence for the Educators, Explainers and Encyclopediacs who

assume others ignorance with no justification for this assumption.

A small innocuous comment can incite a posting of a torrent of information already known by the earlier poster.

As long as this type still has a beating heart may I suggest that a sentence or two and a link (while annoying) should suffice.