Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break?
me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow #Grammarly and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper #spelling, grammar and #punctuation in our product #documentation isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.
Whenever I write text lines to my comic, I start staring at words with utter confusion; I feel like I can never be sure how things are spelled and if I am using the right sentence structure.
Then I try to remind myself that people will tell me if I spelled something absolutely wrong...and it mainly matters that people get the idea.
I am not perfect, and even native speakers (English) get stuff wrong all the time. :P
RT appreciated because this is a major life quality issue: the lack of spell checkers for Samsung tablet.
I use a Samsung Galaxy S9+ Tab (I strongly recommend against ever getting a Samsung device, for many reasons. Happy to elaborate further). This specific one doesn't have inbuilt spellchecker, confirmed with the Samsung support who fluffed around for ages before admitting only some models have it, you can't know unless if you bought this specific tablet, then blamed me for not doing research.
Firefox has completely disabled all Android spellcheckers, both inbuilt and extension.
I think what's happening now, is we are being forced to use the online ones that comes with monthly subscription that also sells your work to LLM training models.
I'm not a native English speaker. I'm also dyslexic.
Anyone found any ways around this? While I'd like to never use Microsoft Office Suit, at this point it seems like Microsoft is the least evil out of all the major players.
Anyone found a way of bypassing this? (Do not ask me to google it, google has fallen as a search engine for at least five years now, it's all SEO based irrelevant spam regardless of what your search term is).
How is pre-existing not in the Firefox (Linux?) dictionary, but pee-existing is? 
#spelling
Let's argue about whether it's "Whiskeygate" or Whiskygate" .
Go.
@allrite I noticed nearly all the typos in the first book were homophones, eg lightening > lightning, straight > strait, breaks > brakes, etc. Spellcheck is no good for those.
Just sent the author of two travel narrative books a list of typos to fix. Is that too presumptuous? They're great reads, but would be better if 'lightening' was correctly spelled 'lightning' etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbJO8-T0AI
What do Trump's steel and aluminium tariffs mean for Australia?
from Guardian Oz Media
by Guardian AustraliaUS president Donald Trump’s global tariffs on steel and aluminium imports have taken effect — and the Australian government’s intense lobbying for an exemption has not been successful. The Guardian's Ben Doherty explains how big of a deal these tariffs are for Australians.
Are Trump’s tariffs the beginning of a global trade war and should Australians be worried?
Donald Trump’s tariffs are disrupting markets around the world – here’s why it could be hurting your super
Did you spot it? Did you see it? Did it leap out & batter your eyeballs as it did mine?
how big of a deal
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
#English #Language #grammar #idiom #spelling #FuckMerkanMangling #FuckMerkanCulturalImperialism #WriteGooder #TalkGooder ffs!
I disagree with @gruber here. I think the internet is more like the sky than the Earth. The Earth is a singular thing, but the sky is defined by all of the elements in it. In that sense the internet is more like the sky than the Earth and therefore does not justify a capital I.
Thoughts:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations
I'll be pedantic.
Till is a word in itself.
Not short for "until."
A brief history (and critique) of English spelling reform that I once wrote for @HistoryToday:
https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform
Supplementary notes on the history of English spelling reform:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/
Big Update! Our Spelling Test Flashcards just got even better—no more typing word lists! The app does it for you. Earn badges a perfect way to finish a test! Great for primary schoolers & fun for all. Free to download! https://gurgleapps.com/products/apps/spelling-test-flashcards
Seen in a sex ad:
"ISO FEAMLE [...]"
ISO a spell checker and a brain.
(The brain bit has to do with the choice of "female" to refer to a woman.)
