Why does the spell checker do that little spinny thingy?
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It sends a note to the yahoo geek nazi's that there's someone who don't know how to spell.\n\n\nHey! Ms. 4.0 why do you need to spell check?
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now they just need a grammar button.  how come is not proper english.  correct= why is it that so many people misspell words while typing a question when a check spelling button is provided?
1143491
There is a high probability that you have some spelling mistakes in your program.
547758
I do this, too.  It's usually when I need to type a word that starts out somewhat similar to another word that I use all the time.  I work with computers, so for instance, I may need to type 'common' but my fingers just blurt out 'command' all on their own.  It's quite frustrating, especially when I don't catch the error and neither does spell check.  I'll read back through my already sent message and go, "D'oh!".
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If you look at the letters on the corresponding keys, it's "sexy".  Why they couldn't just spell it out is beyond me.  That goes back to the pager days...
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You stole my question, I am glad I ran into yours, I will put this on my watch list. I ran into two like that and they had a spell check thing. I wonder if the yahoo staff is putting questions out. :)\n\nThanks for asking :) I was just getting read to ask this one myself. :)
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How about a spell checker or grammar checker.
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look very carefully at the clue.  the misspell is there for a reasonnn
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Many users are internatinal users also who don't speak English as a first language, so it's understandable that they misspell some words. Also, people are very lazy and there isn't a spellcheck feature here on answers; you can't expect everyone to copy and paste all of their answers from word processing programs. A few of the users are younger children as well who are just learning proper spelling and grammar techniques.
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the letters are mixed up
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT SPELL CHECK IS?
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Why don't people know how to use a spell checker?
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Microsoft Word has a grammar checker.
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to make the word a little shorter? i dunno lol
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How about a spell checker....  :O
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Perhaps we should earn points for correcting spelling mistakes in the question... Thanks to Konqueror's inline spell checking, I don't make mistakes myself any more (cue people jumping to prove me wrong).\n\nOh yeah, and thanks for stealing my electroshock keyboard idea; I've been advocating that one for ages!
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Yahoo's Spell check only works about half the time, especially on larger answers.\n\nHowever, I totally agree with you.  I am over-whelmed by the degree of spelling and grammar errors. I cannot believe that we would have so many in this single Website!  It shows how poorly kids are being taught today.\n\nI spend half my time on a question trying to understand it and the other half on trying to type my answer clearly and completely.  It seems no one understands the importance of good communications these days.  We all make mistakes from time to time, but this is bad!\n\nWhat an education they are going to get when they go looking for a job.