kcjenkins Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 Spell Check Poem (Reportedly nominated for a Pullet Surprise) Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea, It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight for it two say, Weather eye and wring oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long, And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should bee proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaw's are knot aloud. Eye have run this poem threw it Your sure reel glad two no, Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew. --Sauce unknown (This did pass my iespell checker, and the WordPerfect checker, except for "chequer"....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainen Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 >>This did pass my iespell checker, and the WordPerfect checker<< That's a good one, kc. (MS Word thinks Miss steaks should be capitalized because it is somebody's name .) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 A spell checker should have flagged "flaw's" -- or a grammar checker might have shown that flaws doesn't have an apostrophe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainen Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 >>a grammar checker<< I used to hate that, but I'm beginning to think a bit of standardized grammar might be helpful. Here's a monster double negative, a multi-uple negative, from one of our national leaders, Ben Bernanke, just this morning saying the Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation." I think he means that inflation is a good thing because it controls inflation, but I'm not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 >>a grammar checker<< I used to hate that, but I'm beginning to think a bit of standardized grammar might be helpful. Here's a monster double negative, a multi-uple negative, from one of our national leaders, Ben Bernanke, just this morning saying the Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation." I think he means that inflation is a good thing because it controls inflation, but I'm not sure. There's another old saying that a double negative means a positive, but that there are NO double positives that mean a negative. Yeah, right. Catherine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joanmcq Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Funny it flagged 'chequer' since that is a proper word in some of the english speaking world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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