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In reply to the discussion: MSNBC Chris Matthews is an idiot! Like we already didn't know this. [View all]BigmanPigman
(55,198 posts)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.