Secret Site Agent Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 I have just been given a ****ing rollicking by a client. The reason? I submitted a document to them, it was spell checked in word by my companies on line intranet, as I have to be logged into it when I am in a major office, and to send/recieve e-mails, and when they recieved it they went ballistic at my spelling, especially of the word 'Defence' which was spelt 'Defense'. The Client? The Ministry of Defense, (s**t I did it again), I mean Defence. I left it to an underling to do the final check, who passed it onto a POLISH lad, (no disrespect to them, I couldn't do a technical job in another language that is for sure). But why when I speak to my funcking IT department do they tell me that it always defaults to the US spelling. WHY??????? I don't know wether to sack soemone, smash the computer, or requisition a cat so that I have something to kick. Or maybe just go home and beat up the misses, as apperently we all do because Saints are crap, (and I would like to see the raw evidence on THAT piece of scandalous news reporting). GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Bloody Microsoft. Don't speak English properly, don't spell English properly, don't invest in us properly. Don't you just hate it!!!!!! Rant over. I'm going home now. Shouldn't even be at work at quarter to seven at night. I've kept the staff with me though. Bastards. They all think their getting overtime. As if. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 Company's Received Whether Someone (typo) Missus Apparently They're I'm not even starting on the grammar. Would you like to employ me as your proof reader instead of relying on a computer programme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastleighSoulBoy Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 Pedantic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 Mine was a generous offer, not pedantry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadeem Hardison Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 People shouldn't have to rely on a computer to check their spelling. If the job requires you to prepare documents to a standard, you should really have the skills to do that job in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 American spelling is a pet hate of mine. It's our language and just because they are thick as **** they have to dumb it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 5 February, 2009 Share Posted 5 February, 2009 tell them to change there region settings within Ms Office. Should stop it happening again at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 6 February, 2009 Share Posted 6 February, 2009 funnily enough they pronounce Aluminum correctly wheras we dont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 6 February, 2009 Share Posted 6 February, 2009 funnily enough they pronounce Aluminum correctly wheras we dont. We've been over this before... The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. By 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum... But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr saint Posted 6 February, 2009 Share Posted 6 February, 2009 Ive never had too youse a sbell chequer in muy lyfe, butt lukily I rarly hafe to rite anythink of N E inportince. S.W.F is thr acception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denzil Posted 6 February, 2009 Share Posted 6 February, 2009 All Americans need a slap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mao Cap Posted 6 February, 2009 Share Posted 6 February, 2009 Should always look over your work yourself instead of relying on a machine, too much room for error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 Word processor dictionaries should only be used in the event of typos, and as such should really be set to the as-you-type function. They are absolutely no substitute to a good basic foundation in spelling and grammar. And, unless you are heavily restricted in changing settings, there should be no problem in changing the default dictionary to UK English. I know the above sounds terribly pedantic and formal, but it really f***s me right off that people can't bother to learn how to spell properly, or even properly check spelling, and instead rely on a piece of inaccurate and flawed software that emanates from Seattle, USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 Starting a sentence with "And," StL? My spell-checker wouldn't allow that, even in US English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 Starting a sentence with "And," StL? My spell-checker wouldn't allow that, even in US English. Yeah, I know that one. My primary school teacher pulled me up for starting a sentence off with And. I pointed out that Charles Dickens did it a few times, and that was good enough for me. Although I never wrote a sentence, starting it off in that way, in school again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barfy Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 MS Office 2003 with the English (UK) dictionaries installed correctly allows me to start sentences with both 'and' and 'but'. I was never any good at English at school, so had no idea until now that this was a big no-no :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 Should always look over your work yourself instead of relying on a machine, too much room for error. First rule of Quality Assurance: Never check your own work, your mind will read what it wants to see, not what you have actually done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 11 February, 2009 Share Posted 11 February, 2009 MS Office 2003 with the English (UK) dictionaries installed correctly allows me to start sentences with both 'and' and 'but'. I was never any good at English at school, so had no idea until now that this was a big no-no :confused: It's only a no-no to start a sentence with a conjunction (and, but, etc.) in formal English and it's actually widely acceptable nowadays. I was only pulling StL's leg, to be honest, and I've no actual idea whether my spell-checker would allow it, as I don't use one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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