The Best (worst) Spelling and Grammar Errors Thread - Page 5

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Originally Posted by jamo 


Try it on here, and take a screencap.

And I could probably do over 85 if I was able to use my keyboard at home ;-)

In grade school I lost a spelling bee. The word I misspelled was failure.

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Originally Posted by jamo 


FWIW, I got 68.

I didn't realize the text would randomize.  I'd like to try again.  

I'm a bit upset that I had to spell Ramsaran twice and you only had to spell Ethelbertha once.

I got 86 with no mistakes (I sense and correct as I go). I probably would have scored higher if I had read the stuff I was going to type prior to typing it. I also feel like I type faster when I'm not transcribing but am instead just writing down what comes to my mind.

My goodness some of these are difficult.  I had to do a couple very tough passages (one about Greece with a lot of off-words capitalized that shouldn't have been and beginning words uncapitalized, and another in Old English).  Both were in the low-to-mid 60 range, although without any mistakes.  I did an easier one and finished in 85WPM (1 mistake).

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Originally Posted by iacas 

I got 86 with no mistakes (I sense and correct as I go). I probably would have scored higher if I had read the stuff I was going to type prior to typing it. I also feel like I type faster when I'm not transcribing but am instead just writing down what comes to my mind.

 

That was a mildly tough one too.  Nice work.

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Originally Posted by bplewis24 

That was a mildly tough one too.  Nice work.

The dashes tripped me up for a second or two - I prefer them like this, you see. ;)

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Originally Posted by zipazoid 

In grade school I lost a spelling bee. The word I misspelled was failure.

Lol, irony.  Don't feel bad ... I lost my 6th grade spelling bee with "hymn."  (I didn't go to church, so you can guess what I wrote down)

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Originally Posted by Golfingdad 

So you don't know the difference between "of" and "out?"  Should I explain it to you?

 

Or should I do like I normally do, and assume you are intelligent and just made a typo?  K-troop has the right of it ... don't assume a lot of people on here care as much to proofread like they do for things that are actually important, therefore don't judge their intelligence based on such minor grammar mistakes.  Make fun of them (us - I know I've done it), yes, but don't judge.

There's a difference between a typo and mixing up two correctly spelled words out of simple ignorance.

Forgivable: "I'm going ot the store."

Unforgivable: "Look over their!"

Glad I could elaborate on my strict and unreasonable expectations of forum writing.  Cheers!! 

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Originally Posted by TJBam 

There's a difference between a typo and mixing up two correctly spelled words out of simple ignorance.

 

Forgivable: "I'm going ot the store."

Unforgivable: "Look over their!"

 

Glad I could elaborate on my strict and unreasonable expectations of forum writing.  Cheers!! 

Fare enough.

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Originally Posted by Golfingdad 

Fare enough.

Lmao 

Originally Posted by Golfingdad 

Hey, watch your mouth buddy!  That's agregious!

I don't know how to quote a post from a different thread so I just copied and pasted it over.  Brandon was polite enough not to make fun of this dufus, but I couldn't let it go.  Normally, I am a good visual speller ... I just write a word down that where I'm not sure about the spelling and can tell if it's right or not.  Apparently, not always.

lol, I thought you had misspelled it intentionally 

Names have been omitted to protect the (not so) innocent.