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Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
I saw that Kathy... You had a [/b] in there that you didn't need!!!! Damn you and you're quick edit .

Also, there is actually quite a few more grammatical corrections that could be made in nearly every post in this thread (including this one!).

I am of, of course, referring to the proper use of commas, periods, semi-colons, question marks, etc.

I do not think that alerting people to bad spelling is a bad thing. Personally, Firefox does it for me and shows up red underlined so I can right-click and select the right spelling . You see Firefox there <---- I spelled it "firefox", and apparently Firefox feels it is nounish enough to be capitalized .

It also doesn't like the word nounish... probably because I made it up .

See, now, that's the sort of thing we'd lose. I invented the n900 gobbryfux for some post I was making. And just last week I know I used the verb 'to bovrilise' which I suspect is not in any well known dictionary. And that's before you get into linguistic arguments over whose language it is, and whether that should be 'bovrilise' or 'bovrilize'. I refuse to use any spell checker that corrects the use of 'colour'.

You'd end up worrying more about your spelling and grammar than content. And in the end, it is good, high quality content that we want here.

Certainly people who post "OMFG! N900 is Teh Suxxor! Nokia haz jmpd da Shark!" are problematic: to my mind that's not so much about poor spelling or grammar as very, very weak comunication. You change that not by fancy forum tools so much as by constantly demonstrating that that's not how we communicate here. Whether for business or technical reasons, language is a tool and the more finely honed your use of it, the better.

Edit - fatalsaint, I think you'll find that's "your quick edit" not "you're quick edit"
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