[2011] Do you proof your TUG posts before you submit?

[ampaholic]

It absolutely is correct just the way you typed it.

What would be wrong-wrong-wrong (i.e., incorrect -- it's not a moral issue) would be saying "It's the same for Rick and I".

BTW -- It's not too late for Strunk & White. (Just saying.)

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

And to prove it we have - "you and me could make a bad romance" - Lady Ga Ga

 

[Sandi Bo]

I try to proof mine, and still see errors after submitting. Always thankful for the edit button. Didn't realize there was a spell check available, until now. That will be helpful, thanks!

 

[glypnirsgirl]

For posts that are mainly fun, I don't bother to edit. When in more serious discussion mode, I usually will write in Word first, then copy and paste to post.

elaine

 

[RALnGA]

aWAYwEgO
You are sew write ...Eye can't stand to hav two reed and siphur what sum right...thats y I allways re-red mine ...Knot won to read mines...
knight Yall
RAL :rofl:

 

[MuranoJo]

That's so true, the 'silent' edit feature is quick to vaporize before your corrected mistake shows up as an edited post. Once it shows up as an edited post, we can only imagine what MIGHT have been there in the first place.

 

[Talent312]

...Once it shows up as an edited post, we can only imagine what MIGHT have been there in the first place.

In my case, what was there "in the first place" was some useless drivel, which would reveal me to be a loony windbag (if you're quick enuff).

After seeing my posts in print, I edit nearly all in a panicked attempt to sound somewhat literate.

 

[Makai Guy]

When I edit it's mostly to correct typos, restate something to make my meaning more clear, or sometimes to add additional information.

You have 2 minutes after posting in which you can edit without the "edited" notice being added. This is enough for fixing typos, but not much else.

As for the semi-built-in spell checker on this board, it is just a link that can be used to bring up the IESPELL add-on for Internet Explorer. From one of my posts from 1999:

The icon looks like this:

But since IESPELL is an addon that only works with Internet Explorer, the board won't show you the icon if you are using a browser incompatible with IE.

Since I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Firefox user (which, by the way, has its own internal spell checker that catches my errors as they're typed), I had to fire up IE to see what y'all were talking about.

 

[ace2000]

You have 2 minutes after posting in which you can edit without the "edited" notice being added. This is enough for fixing typos, but not much else.

Is it possible to extend that time? From reading this thread, it appears there's a lot of us that proof after we submit.

Also, thanks to everyone for mentioning the spell check button. I never noticed that before.

 

[RDB]

Often I've wanted to amend my post, but too late without the "Edited" showing up. Many of those times, I leave it alone as I see no reason to tell the world something was changed.

If I really was worried about such, I probably wouldn't post at all.
The older I become, the less important trifles become.
Not trying to offend anyone.

It is nice to be able to correct, but I usually won't bother.

When I do edit and the "reason for edit" comes up, I usually ignore it. WHAT'S THE POINT of taking the time to say "mispelling" or "correction"?

I too use Word to formulate, then copy to TUG.

 

[ace2000]

Often I've wanted to amend my post, but too late without the "Edited" showing up. Many of those times, I leave it alone as I see no reason to tell the world something was changed.

If I really was worried about such, I probably wouldn't post at all.
The older I become, the less important trifles become.
Not trying to offend anyone.

It is nice to be able to correct, but I usually won't bother.

When I do edit and the "reason for edit" comes up, I usually ignore it. WHAT'S THE POINT of taking the time to say "mispelling" or "correction"?

I too use Word to formulate, then copy to TUG.

On you comments on the edit button, those are my thoughts exactly!

Never tried using Word, may have to try that. I do have Word integrated into my Outlook at work, but I still have to cringe when I read some of my previous sent emails.

 

[RDB]

On you comments on the edit button, those are my thoughts exactly!

Never tried using Word, may have to try that. I do have Word integrated into my Outlook at work, but I still have to cringe when I read some of my previous sent emails.

Cringes don't get it done. I say, "Let it go".
Main thing... Just Post!

 

[ace2000]

On you comments on the edit button...

Wow, see what I mean... guess I do have a problem with proofing! And once again, that was part of an edit that I did after I was typing... that is the place where most of my mistakes are made. I swear, it has to be because I'm getting blind and older at the same time!

LOL

 

[AwayWeGo]

I Resemble That Remark. (To A Degree.)

Often I've wanted to amend my post, but too late without the "Edited" showing up. Many of those times, I leave it alone as I see no reason to tell the world something was changed.

Making liberal use of the "Preview Post" feature cuts down on the need to make edits on entries that have passed the point of no return.

But even after entries have gone final & that brief opportunity for evidence-free editing is over, the software provides a little space for explaining or commenting on the reason for editing the entry -- anything from None Of Your Beeswax to a semi-detailed rationale.

Is this great BBS software or what ?

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[ace2000]

Is this great BBS software or what ?

LOL - and by God, isn't this a great country we live in!

 

[AwayWeGo]

Amen To That.

LOL - and by God, isn't this a great country we live in!

For sure.

It's no wonder I'm walking around all the time with an attitude of gratitude.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[scrapngen]

For sure.

It's no wonder I'm walking around all the time with an attitude of gratitude.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

"attitude of gratitude" ...

What a great sentiment. I like that, Alan!! Sometimes we forget just how good we have it! Thanks!

 

[ace2000]

"attitude of gratitude" ...

What a great sentiment. I like that, Alan!! Sometimes we forget just how good we have it! Thanks!

+1 on all that you've stated.

 

[AwayWeGo]

Harbrace & The Elements Of Style.

It's not too late for Strunk & White.

Click here for an internet article mostly about Harbrace, but mentioning also The Elements Of Style (Strunk & White).

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[Phill12]

I couldn't live without the edit option!

I do proof read most times but then still go back later and find error in spelling or the way I stated something doesn't fit or just sounds mean when it wasn't mean't to be. Many times people start to post reply and get hurried and just make these errors which for the most part are no big deal. Problem on all these timeshare forums we have some know=it-all people that can't wait to jump on someone for spelling error or what they take as mean postings. Because of this I will go back and try and fix a error just so I don't have to listen to these people. This is down side to timeshare forums with some always thinking there better or smarter than all others!

PHIL:deadhorse:

 

[AwayWeGo]

Submit? Never! I Am A Free Man!

Do you proof your TUG posts before you submit?

Never submit.

Only send in.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[pwrshift]

My iPad often 'corrects' what I've typed with words I never intended, and I find I have to cross check everything I write with it. Some of the changes it makes are hilarious...like the three I had to manually change in this shirt post.

 

[Jaybee]

How can we be blamed for errors in English? I thought this might be a good place for this.....
You think English is easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row ...

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on..

English was invented by people not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'

It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP ...

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so........it is time to shut UP !

Oh . . . one more thing:


What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P

 

[pjrose]

In answer to the original question, no, not usually, but this thread reminded me to do so today!

 

[isisdave]

None Of Your Beeswax

My favorite: "Brain failed to engage before fingers"

 

[pwrshift]

Jayvee...your post was hilarious. Thanks.

Brian