Why bad spelling can be good or at least funny
64My nemesis
Sherlock Holmes had Professor Moriarty, Captain Picard, had 'Q'. Even the road runner has the coyote (or is it the other way around?).
My nemesis?...Spelling. No matter how well I proofread, no matter how many spell checkers I use. Regardless of careful attention to details, there will always be a spelling mistake that pops up somewhere.
Sometimes, I swear the mistakes don't exist until days later, after I have written a piece. They jump up from the ether and find their way into my writing. Try as I might I cannot catch them all.
- Why bad spelling can be good or at least funny
From HubPagesSherlock Holmes had Professor Moriarty Captain Picard had Q Even the road runner has the coyote or is it the other way around My nemesisSpelling No matter how well I proofread no matter howRead More... - 8 months ago
- Why bad spelling can be good or at least funny
There seems to be some strange happenings since New Years 2011 in Arizona reportily 2000 birds fell from the sky for no apparent reason Some sources speculate that it may have been from the gunshotsfireworks and stress of new years but how to you explain the more then 10000 drum fish which died around Arkanas at the same timeRead More... - 16 months ago
Remember back in school?, when you had a report due, and you write your story explaining..oh some history project or something, only to get your report back full of red circles, or "sp" all over it? Did this happen to others..or was it just me?
These red circles chase me everywhere I go. Like that darn cat that keeps coming back, so do my spelling errors. | Amazon Price: $7.98 List Price: $12.95 |
..Perhaps it is good, if I make these spelling errors, others might too right? When folks do there Google searches for 'weird'. In fact, I often get visitors to my blog who searched for words with spelling errors.
How many times I have typed 'gmail' 'gmal' and got that stupid adware page with all the popups. Obviously, some companies actually try to make a living from spelling mistakes. Deliberately creating mis-spelled words in google search results or domain names.For me, this is sort of a poetic justice to the spelling gremlins that haunt me
Now I'm not saying that I don't know how to use a spell checker, and I do try and fix those underlined squigly spelling mistakes when I see them, but I don't always see them and there's the problem. I can read the same document 100 times and still never see that one mis-spelled word..until I give it to someone else, and then it just stands out, plain as day. Go figure!
But I've learned to make friends with my spelling mistakes. I have excepted that I am a univeral reader, and not a univeral author - and I figure if you can't beat'em you may as well join em. Some spelling mistakes can just be downright funny!
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