[gui-talk] ODE TO THE SPELL CHECKER

[Seville Allen]

Yes, I ooked and yes, I see, thanks for pointing this out.  Sorry for my
post which obviously, didn't actually go through and read that poem.  Again,
thanks. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Lee
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:36 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] ODE TO THE SPELL CHECKER

Actually JAWS, and probably other screen readers, all but cloak the
true nature of that poetic creation.  Its whole point is to
demonstrate the very things a spell checker can not fix.  It is
therefore littered with errors of usage, misspellings and respellings
that form other words that do exist, words split nonsensically into
unrelated but phonetically similar or identical replacements, etc.
For anyone unfamiliar with this piece, run through it meticulously
with a review cursor, or if it won't cause you an upset stomach to
see, send it to a Braille printer and count the hiccups. <grin>

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:02:09PM -0400, Seville Allen wrote:
Yes, except that when form was supposed to be from, sale was supposed to be
sail, two was supposed to be too or to, pubic was supposed to be public,
crap was supposed to be grab, and ,.....well, proofreading is a thing of the
past.  There are so many errors that it makes the authors look incompetent;
this goes for offices, publishers and those who just plain write. 
Too bad, because I suspect the impression of incompetence is not correct,
but would one want all these errors to go out under your company name? 
   

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sherri
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:58 AM
To: Sherri; accesscomp at yahoogroups.com; Multiple recipients of NFBnet
GUI-TALK Mailing List
Subject: [gui-talk] ODE TO THE SPELL CHECKER

This is really great!

Sherri
ODE TO THE SPELL CHECKER.

Eye halve a spelling chequer,

It came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques four my revue,

Miss steaks eye kin not sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word,

And weight four it two say,

Weather eye am wrong or write,

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,

It nose bee fore two long.

And I can put the error rite,

Its rare lea ever wrong.

I have run this poem threw it,

I am shore your pleased to no.

It's letter perfect awl the weigh,

My chequer tolled me sew.


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