Spelling corrections & such.

Phoig, did you ever get any feedback from Stardock?

This was always what irked me most about GC2, my favorite game.  They could hire one reasonably good proofreader/English major for a week to scan the entirety of the textual content to fix all of the numerous typos/misspellings/grammatical offenses. 

Although given the way things are going on this planet, it may not be too farfetched to assume that in the future, where GC2 takes place, nobody can spell anymore anyway.

What I find most galling about the whole spelling thing is that I'm actually a miserable speller when it comes to my own stuff, but when I'm reading something - anything - that someone else wrote, they leap out & clobber me. I remember once opening up a packet of sugar to put in some iced tea & saw a spelling error on the back of the packet. And yet, when I'm writing my research papers or my own books or tech manuals or emails or letters or what-have-you, the dumb spelling part of my brain goes on siesta or something. Same things with syntax, grammar, typos, the whole lot goes out the window when I could use it most and is in full force for everything else I read on the planet. So, while I have something a problem with professional companies sending stuff out with errors in it, I'm certainly not going to stand on a box about it! My most embarrassing professional moment was sending out hundreds of flyers to a benefit concerns for physical disabled adults, some of whom were "severly" disabled.  Sigh... That just about put the president of the company through the roof and into a coma.

P.S., Ben P. I hope you don't think I was being critical of your comment - I was only making a drawling commentary of mine using your observation as a springboard. Now if I could only find what happened to the spell checker for this forum board, I'd feel a whole lot better about this post!

I take that as a no

Nope, no spell checker for me. I'm back to using TextPad to draft my drivel and then pasting it here. Huh. The big grin smiley looks kinda creepy to me... Maybe I'll avoid using that from now on...

The "classic" smilies are still there, you just have to click over to the second page. I have no idea how you might get them with just keyboard strings like the old colon-dash-close parenthesis.

Re the typing box spell-checking, y'all just made me pay attention. The site was broken for Opera a while ago, and now I realize that several months ago I was used to seeing spell-check in Firefox text boxes like this, but they seem to be gone now. Was the change to FF or are the Stardock forums somehow ducking that functionality with the latest edit boxes?

Re spelling in general, Phoig, it is *always* much harder to check your own stuff. Your stupid brain does "corrections" that never make it to your fingers, so your only hope is getting a draft done early enough to put it down for a good while before you proof it. I went to a writing-intensive college where we actually had a *math* professor who put his manuscripts in a drawer for a *year* before he edited them.

I guess I should have said:

I take that as a no that Phoig never got a response from Stardock about incorparating his text corrections into the game.   

interesting, selecting the sad face brings up the mad face instead after posting

Yar! (Bit late with the pirate talk.) No, Stardock hasn't contacted me about the edited copy. Oh, well, at least I can still implement my corrections and not cringe whenever someone talks about a "big ball of steal."    

I like the idea of salting away a paper for a year. (hoping for a less creepy smiley... let's see... hmmm...    sokay, found 'em.) Not very practical when having to submit research papers. Fortunately my wife has a good eye for that sort of stuff, so my school papers didn't look they should have been written in crayon. A further frustration for me is my penchant for obscure words (sesquipedalian is what I think my wife dug out of God only knows where for some of the words I've been known to use.) I just love all the crazy stuff English has. Spelling it can be a nightmare (I won't bore any without exactly how long it took me to find the correct spelling of sesquipedalian just now...) On a widely divergent tangent, one of my "favorite" books (favorite being used in a context that defies sanity) is "In Yana: The Undying." You want to hurt your head, read that. About 10 pages into it, I had already had to resort to my unabridged dictionary close to a dozen times and there were two words that weren't even in there! When all was said and done, beyond the thoroughly surreal milieu of the story, I had a list of close to 50 words I didn't know and eight of them defied easy definitions. Strabismusical (or something like - I'd have to look back at the list) was the absolute worst of them all and I'm pretty sure the author coined that one, although I did find one online source that referred to it (a British medical dictionary that sadly seems to have expired.) What's absolutely frightening about this whole tale, is that not only do I not ever remember buying this book, but I have now somehow become the proud owner of two copies! I pray that they're not quietly reproducing in my bookcase...

I'll have to take a look at your corrections sometime and see which portions of them can be metaverse compatable.