Use of Proper Spelling and Grammar

[Black Dragon]

I think the wiggly lines you're seeing are there through the internet browser you're using, ALB - as far as I know, this forum doesn't have anything currently installed.

That's correct.

There is no spell checker for our forum software. Since most major browsers have built-in spellcheckers, the developers believe that it would be a redundant addition that would needlessly use resources. I'm inclined to agree with them.

[ALB2012]

Fair enough

[Androxine Vortex]

I just want to let everyone know that I use my phone to post on this site and it it's extremely difficult to go back and change my text because I can't really move the cursor around and auto correct never seems top understand me. So sorry about any errors in myposts as I can't really go back and change them that readily. Thanks.

[Robert Donnell]

Okay guys I use Mozilla Firefox and there is a spell checker built in but you must "add the English Dictionary" before it will work.

First click on the Firefox button in the upper left hand corner, then Options, then Advanced, then make sure "Check my spelling as I type" box has a check in it. This is the on/off button for the spell checker.

Next go to:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...anguage-tools/

Then click on "English Dictionary"

After that it will prompt you to restart Firefox, do this.

Wham! You have Spell check.

[Reaver]

Whut tha hale yoo nead spale chek fore?

[Robert Donnell]

Well the thinking is that as writers we should be able to spell, right?

As for grammar, what Yoda would think?

[Benjamin Clayborne]

Nothing wrong with spellcheck, if you need it. Some people just aren't good at spelling no matter how much they read.

[Zero Angel]

hmm since there was a ',' after Everyone, should not the 'P' on please be lower case?????

(Oh, dang, I ended with a question mark, not a period.)

I think it was in "letter form", so the comma is acceptable

I am guilty of speaking "Internet" with my abbreviations though -_-

...and using smileys instead of punctuation, clearly.

[icebladeaskante]

After reading the various posts on this I do feel a question I always have about proper spelling when on international forums. And one poster did actually bring it up a little. Should I be using American English or British English for my spellings? As most of the fantasy I read seems to come from America I can easily parse American English into British English no problem and it doesn't bother me, but actually typing it out and using it myself seems so very very wrong. I have actually had one person in a different (and different type of forum) ask me what was I spelling color with a u for, so I want to check just what you expect when you say proper spelling?

[Steerpike]

icebladeskante:

I haven't seen this question addressed specifically, but I see no reason why both British and American spellings wouldn't be acceptable on the forums. Everyone should use whichever form they use in daily life. We're all well-read enough here to understand that there are variations between the two.