Dew knot deepen dawn ‘spell check’ two ketchup awe thee airs. (Do not depend on Spell Check to catch all the errors.)
Spell Check is a great tool to have as assistance when writing any type of document (resume, interoffice memo, etc), but relying on it too much can result in a disaster. It is very important that as a business professional you possess your own grammar skills in order to keep yourself from looking like a fool. Although Spell Check does a decent job of catching errors, it is you that is responsible for your work, and you can’t blame mistakes on the computer. The following poem is a prime example of how Spell Check doesn’t help in some cases. Each of the words is properly spelled, so Spell Check doesn’t recognize them as errors, but I guarantee that you will have trouble reading this poem. (This poem was taken from webenglishteacher.com)
Ode to a Spell Checker
Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marks four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong 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.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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This is so true!! I just did a blog post about making sure when writing a press release to a newspaper that if you have any specific errors in your article, it gets thrown out right away. It shows professionalism and shows your educated when everything is correctly spelled and has correct grammar.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree! Practically all of our lives we have been told time after time to proofread our papers and not to rely only on Spell Check! I know plenty of times I have been guilty of making errors, but I wouldn't of known it if I didn't read it over myself. For example, I have missed used “there” instead of “their” or “were” instead of “we're.” Submitting papers like that, whether it is in college or in your own business could make you look as if you're not highly educated.
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