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BigmanPigman

(55,198 posts)
22. I checked it out and can't find the "i" that you referred to.
Thu Oct 5, 2017, 09:15 PM
Oct 2017

I taught sixth and first grades and am trying really hard to deal with my Samsung tablet SPELL CHECK and it causes more errors than I create myself. I know grammar and spelling and punctuation but I often type quickly and I must do my own "Spellchecker" with everything I write since whatever I write is misspelled regardless of Gmail, etc. I asked DU tech for help and disabled the auto spell check on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet and have asked friends about this and they have no answers except to accept it. I know that this is not happening to only me but to many others and none of us know how to get around it. I proofread what I write and use spellcheck and I still have to correct errors that the tablet creates on its own. I taught my students the differences between "you, your, you're and to, too, two, and buy, bye, by, and there, their, they're,".

Please do me a favor and do not correct my spelling and grammar when I DO KNOW HOW TO DO SO CORRECTLY! This is BS computer crap and I have no control over it!!! You must be able to understand by now that this pisses me off and I AM offended whenever these errors are pointed out (as are many others)! I KNOW this happens all the time and I DO NOT catch all of the errors that I NEVER TYPED in the first place but we're(oh my, there'should and another one.. another one...ha, ha see my point...I left this "as is" to prove my point...we're vs we're, there is vs there'swhatever Samsung chooses to write in place of what I actually typed)

I know how to use punctuation, upper and lower case, periods, quotation marks, possession, contractions, past, present, and future tense. etc., within and without quotation marks in a sentence and the various ways that are acceptable English. Please do not correct my spelling and grammar or others on any posts who have a fucking communication system that actually changes what you originally (and often correctly in my case) wrote . Yes, I received a birthday card by a fellow teacher who wrote "YOUR" instead of the correct contraction of " YOU'RE" three times in my card. That was NOT due to computer/tablet spellchecker BS! I did NOT correct her yet noticed it. Please take this into consideration when you criticize someone who writes quickly and can'take (ooohhh, did YOU catch that error???) triple check everything someone writes on a computer, especially when they are writing something quickly and needs to get info out to others who may be more interested in the content in a timely manner and not how the fucking tablet rewrites what you actually typed correctly in the first place.

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Overly harsh. I like Chris Mathews. Chill out a bit. Trust Buster Oct 2017 #1
NOT overly harsh Skittles Oct 2017 #3
Sounds like intolerance to me. Trust Buster Oct 2017 #4
I don't trust him Skittles Oct 2017 #7
I'm with you Skittles. InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2017 #20
He's a no talent, lightweight Brainstormy Oct 2017 #26
I like him only when he says what he honestly thinks... LisaM Oct 2017 #5
when he swooned over Duyba's codpiece, jeez, that kinda made me sick Skittles Oct 2017 #8
Yes, that was terrible. LisaM Oct 2017 #24
Matthews has helped me stay sane since Jan adigal Oct 2017 #23
Tweety is Peggy Noonan with less hair and jewelry. nt Atticus Oct 2017 #11
Matthews got a woody over that money W DK504 Oct 2017 #17
I kinda like him, too. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2017 #14
An. ImpeachTheGOP Oct 2017 #2
Grammar pirate! The OP could lose an i, too. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2017 #6
I checked it out and can't find the "i" that you referred to. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #22
I think at one point it said "iidiot." I was not the original pirate. Lots of them only have one rzemanfl Oct 2017 #27
Whoever (or should I correctly write WHOMEVER) originally wrote the extra "i" was probably BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #30
Thank you! Madam Mossfern Oct 2017 #9
Since I got flamed instead of you, n/t should be on the title line. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2017 #32
Never have liked him kimbutgar Oct 2017 #10
Tweety should've been fired years ago. InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2017 #21
Matthews likes to fling shit in all directions and carry on like a drinking buddy. The_Casual_Observer Oct 2017 #12
I'm starting to wonder of Matthews has lost a step (or two). dem4decades Oct 2017 #13
Now that Mueller had a sit down with Steel it's all legit. madaboutharry Oct 2017 #15
Matthews has some wingers in his family, he let that cat out of the bag and you can tell they have.. uponit7771 Oct 2017 #16
Chris bothers me at times too. Mostly his interrupting and not Fla Dem Oct 2017 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author JonLP24 Oct 2017 #19
Tweety off his meds, again? lindysalsagal Oct 2017 #25
The sloppiest mind in television. A-Schwarzenegger Oct 2017 #28
I only like him when I agree with him redstateblues Oct 2017 #29
+1. n/t obnoxiousdrunk Oct 2017 #34
I post this every once in awhile as a reminder of what Matthews is worth. brewens Oct 2017 #31
He's an idiot but he's entertaining Raine Oct 2017 #33
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