Probably, unless most of your day is spent reading and writing.
And even then there will come a time when you can’t spell worth shit.
And even then there will come a time when you can’t spell worth shit.
As We Age Dos Our Abilety To Spell Words Correctly Demenash?
Jist wondouring.
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don't fight the spell checker. lol
Living in a country full of working class alcoholics that are ruled by stoned liberals…
Grammar is becoming more of a top hat than a T-Shirt.
Grammar is becoming more of a top hat than a T-Shirt.
My ability to even remember words seem to be diminishing!
what were we talkin bout ?
Sometimes ordinary words slip my mind. Even a five-letter word like "pants" can break my mind down into an onomatopoeic fugue-state.
French training at work jumbled me up pretty badly. Lack of sleep doesn't help either.
With how much THC people are now taking in, more than likely.
I don't know if age has anything to do with it, but placing Kijiji or Marketplace ads sure does. DEAR GOD the spelling and grammar deciphering needed daily just to figure out what they are trying to say.................EGADS!!!
1) Thumb-typing on a phone or tablet is not exactly God's gift to spelling accuracy.
2) As one gets older, different spelling standards tend to bleed into each other. British/Canadian and American spelling often contradict each other. Then there is the question of precisely when double consonants are used or not used. I find myself frequently being "informed" by a red underscore that I've used too many consonants in a word that I was dead sure required two in order for the subsequent "e" to be silent., or the preceding "a" to be short and not a long "a".
3) When I wrote my M.Sc. thesis in 1982, I bought myself what was, at the time, a VERY hip and powerful micro-computer: an Acorn Atom (about $600Cdn including 12k RAM and a 4k firmware "word processor" installed into one of ROM slots on the board). In those days, screen parameters were very limited, so this provided me with 16 lines of up to 32 characters on the screen. Word wrap exceeded the capabilities of the package so part of a word would appear on one line and the remainder would appear on the next, with no hyphen or other indicator accompanying the split, and certainly NO spell-check. Scanning for spelling errors was time consuming and far from accurate, particularly given the many neurophysiological terms in the thesis, and all those bloody Dutch author names that often required checking the spelling of each and every syllable (a lot of the previous work I was citing was done in the Netherlands). Perhaps the bad habits developed then stuck. But I try to make a point of spelling accurately.
2) As one gets older, different spelling standards tend to bleed into each other. British/Canadian and American spelling often contradict each other. Then there is the question of precisely when double consonants are used or not used. I find myself frequently being "informed" by a red underscore that I've used too many consonants in a word that I was dead sure required two in order for the subsequent "e" to be silent., or the preceding "a" to be short and not a long "a".
3) When I wrote my M.Sc. thesis in 1982, I bought myself what was, at the time, a VERY hip and powerful micro-computer: an Acorn Atom (about $600Cdn including 12k RAM and a 4k firmware "word processor" installed into one of ROM slots on the board). In those days, screen parameters were very limited, so this provided me with 16 lines of up to 32 characters on the screen. Word wrap exceeded the capabilities of the package so part of a word would appear on one line and the remainder would appear on the next, with no hyphen or other indicator accompanying the split, and certainly NO spell-check. Scanning for spelling errors was time consuming and far from accurate, particularly given the many neurophysiological terms in the thesis, and all those bloody Dutch author names that often required checking the spelling of each and every syllable (a lot of the previous work I was citing was done in the Netherlands). Perhaps the bad habits developed then stuck. But I try to make a point of spelling accurately.
You're the guy that bought that one Acorn Atom! I saw them on the back of a magazine and they had a full colour display. When I called them it was black and white so I didn't buy one.1) Thumb-typing on a phone or tablet is not exactly God's gift to spelling accuracy.
2) As one gets older, different spelling standards tend to bleed into each other. British/Canadian and American spelling often contradict each other. Then there is the question of precisely when double consonants are used or not used. I find myself frequently being "informed" by a red underscore that I've used too many consonants in a word that I was dead sure required two in order for the subsequent "e" to be silent., or the preceding "a" to be short and not a long "a".
3) When I wrote my M.Sc. thesis in 1982, I bought myself what was, at the time, a VERY hip and powerful micro-computer: an Acorn Atom (about $600Cdn including 12k RAM and a 4k firmware "word processor" installed into one of ROM slots on the board). In those days, screen parameters were very limited, so this provided me with 16 lines of up to 32 characters on the screen. Word wrap exceeded the capabilities of the package so part of a word would appear on one line and the remainder would appear on the next, with no hyphen or other indicator accompanying the split, and certainly NO spell-check. Scanning for spelling errors was time consuming and far from accurate, particularly given the many neurophysiological terms in the thesis, and all those bloody Dutch author names that often required checking the spelling of each and every syllable (a lot of the previous work I was citing was done in the Netherlands). Perhaps the bad habits developed then stuck. But I try to make a point of spelling accurately.
Colour was a bit beyond my budget, after I had sprung the additional $500 for the 9-pin dot matrix printer. It was a terrific little micro that easily accommodate assembly language within BASIC; the reason why I bought it. The Acorn folks were in Cambridge, and were essentially tailoring the machines for real-time laboratory control. I still have mine downstairs, but haven't fired it up in decades, although I hung onto a monochrome monitor, just in case. The monitor also works nicely for my CoCo2 and 3, and the several Sinclair machines down there as well.
Pfft, that's easy for you to say.cgvhk bkmnioi giyygou
right?
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