How much ?

If you want kids fainting in the boiling heat, try the first month of term in February in WA.. 40 degrees plus for weeks and no aircon. No wonder they can't spell!

Ahhh! You have hit the nail on the head - "It's a pound, must be cheap, innit". This is actually a business model for most.

graham.

The one's that get me are those that muddle their words, such as there, and their, too to two, or where and were. One common typo is teh.

Ian S C

"teh" and similar type ahead errors which only exist because of keyboards are a bit different from plain spelling errors which can be present in handwriting by the same person. Anyone know if there is a special word for it?

dyslexia ?

Clive

When I was at school, many, many, years ago, it was called "laziness" - that's laziness, spelt: dyslexia. Nowadays it's called dyslexia - definition: unwilling or unable to use a spell checker.

John

Only because you cannot touch type! The brain thinks ahead and beats your fingers, hence the e preceeds the h otherwise.

Taht=that

As Neil and others have said this is a model engineering forum so we may get the odd spelling error or typo, to me it doesn't matter, let's not deter members from posting by criticising their language or keyboard skills.

Emgee

..wandering even more off topic... I find the AutoHotKey (Google it) app really useful in its simplest mode of on-the-fly auto-correcting - no more teh's for me (unless I really try hard, like here), or Martub's ("ub" being one to the left of "in" on the keyboard)

It's also useful for setting up your own abbreviations for longer words of phrases that get auto-corrected into the full word eg type MS$ and it gets "corrected" to Microsoft (maybe it shouldn't . Hehe)

Wisdom is gained through life by doing, learning and sharing, With or without formal education, some people gain it while others lack the perception to attempt it. Many incredibly successful people throughout history had little formal education. Possibly their spelling and grammar was not outstanding; it did not stop them achieving their goals, they excelled.

Regards
John

I've asked this question elsewhere -

"Will touch screens bring an end to touch typing?"

Regards,

Sam

I wonder witch huan of those high flying tieps came up with predictive speiling cod's wollop on funs. Talk about the blind leading the venetian!

touch screens were around in the very early days of computing, nothing as sophisticated as what we have now but people just didn't like using them. So they were overtaken by the mouse.

Perhaps the next stage is a surround screen that wraps around the sides and down onto the desk. The main work area is in the middle, of course, but you can just flick the thing you want into the centre with a gesture.

Neil

teh - my most hated typo, I think my hands get out of phase. Sometimes I type a word where all the left-hand letters appear too early in the word.

"Will touch screens bring an end to touch typing?"

Used a Casio PV for years before touch screens became the norm, even back then you could see they were the future of mobile computing.

We just needed the corporate computing committees to finally realise it, Steve Jobs did a lot to push things 5-10 years ahead of what the corporate muppets could come up with

They had a 2 month battery life with a couple off AAAs and could be self-programmed by an average joe

The future?

voice commands and mobile phone networks which use mobile phones instead of base stations

edit: 360 degree headsets for gamers should appear soon as well

Edited By Ady1 on 15/04/2015 09:25:20

As far as spelling is concerned, and spellcheckers, including the one in here, Our American cousins speak Englizh and we speak English

Edited By Ady1 on 15/04/2015 09:36:47

My eldest son was described by his school as being "slow" (e.g. teacher talk for being a bit thick) but fortunately his mother thought there was something else wrong. We paid privately to have him tested and he failed 6 out of 8 tests for "Dyslexia" - which is a bit of a catch-all for a number of very real problems.

Once we knew these problems actually existed we started looking for solutions. Our local hospital had specialist computer 'eye-tracking' equipment that showed he couldn't easily settle on a word to read it (he didn't have a 'lead' eye). He had to wear special glasses for six months to allow his brain to adjust - which frankly made him feel even more isolated at school. We were also able to get private tuition (which he wasn't getting in the "Special Needs" class the school had placed him in - where some of the pupils were clearly severely disabled).

Once we got him back on track so to speak - he was still over three years behind his normal reading age and very resistant to try any form of reading. However - he recovered - if that is the right word. These days he has a very good, well paid job with a large IT company and seems very happy with his life.

So "Dyslexia" isn't a simple thing to understand - but nor is it just "Laziness" . For some people it is a very real problem but one that can be overcome (or at least minimised) with determination.

I'm also sure that my son is very fortunate that his Mum is a pretty determined person where her kids are concerned.

Regards,

IanT

Ian T... I totally agree with what you've written. As a fellow suffer of Dyslexia - only realising this in the later part of my life (and I'm in my sixties now) have found it difficult to say the least trying to 'learn' things at College to be tested on. Even writing this reply will take some doing. I too was 'passed over' at school but with determination I struggled to get the little academic qualification that I have!

John.

P.S. Before I knew what Dyslexia was I thought it was an anagram of 'Daily sex'!

I agree with you too, Ian T. I don't suffer from dyslexia, but three years I had a stroke, and one of the (fortunately temporary) symptoms was what I believe to be very similar. I couldn't read because all the letters seemed to run into each other and appear in random order. Something similar happened when I tried to write. It was quite frightening, and dyslexia, if it is like what I suffered, must be a dreadful affliction.