minister spellcheck

Nobody ever said you have to be smart to help run a country.

Prnsioners? I think that's a typo. It refers to reired gamers, and should be pwnsioners.

So poeple that are bad speelers can be suckcessfull, you just gotta stay the coarse.

This really doesn't suprise me at all. I worked for two extremely intelligent and extremely technically minded people. It was my job to type up the technical specifications and quotes for our customers. There was no issue they couldn't solve. The ideas and concepts to them were cystal clear, executing their plans was nothing short of perfection. The only thing that eluded them was how to spell. It's a different part of the brain that governs all of that. I believe from my observations in life that unless they've had vocabulary words drummed into them, people who are of a higher intelligence usually don't spell very well because the mind doesn't care about the details at that point.

Of course that doesn't hold true for all bad spellers. Some are either just ignorant of proper spelling or just don't care.

If it weren't for spell checkers....

I wrote a post about poor grammar on my blog (http://stuffbuggingme.blogspot.com in case you're really bored today), and forgot to spellcheck before I posted. Luckily, no one reads my blog, so I was able to fix it before anyone found it. Irony is only amusing if I am not the source. 😊

I'm a dyslexic typer. I look back and so many things are misspelled. All of the letters are in the words though, they are just in the wrong order.

Eye halve a spell ling chequer
It came with Mai pea sea
It plane Lee marques four Mai revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows mi strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two lawn
And eye can putt the air or rite
Its rare Lee ever wrong.

Eye halve run this Poe ‘em threw it
I am shore your pleas two no
Its let her perfect inn it's weigh
Mai chequer tolled mi sew.

Nicely done Dave. Don't know why, but I hear it in a spastic Scandinavian tone, but that's jut mi. And depending on the chequer, key could be chi.

Patty - I've heard the same. I went to school with an absolutely brilliant girl. We happened to take one set of SATs on the same Saturday. I remember while I was waiting for my Dad to pick me up, I heard this horrific sound of twisting metal and shattering glass. She had driven herself to the test, but that was not the problem. She was in the process of scoring her test from memory and just pulled out into traffic and totaled her car. She was OK, but understandably upset.

On our way home, my Dad told me a story about Bell Labs. Bell telephone at one point had some of the greatest minds working for them. There was an instance where one of the buildings caught fire. Alarms were going off throughout the complex and people were evacuating. Many of the scientists who were busy working had no idea what was going on around them until either there work got wet because of the sprinklers or eventually caught fire. I get zoned when I'm working on some programming or on my music, but I the only thing I usually lose track of is time.