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  1. @JeniParsons I have a couple of friends with #dyslexia, so I sympathise with anyone who struggles with #spelling! I was made to take spelling #tests at #school, & every #word we got wrong, we had to write out the correct version 10 times.

  2. "Easy listening" but finnish.
    Good way to check your level of finnish (mine is just three words over the zero)

    Veikko Lavi - Silakka-apajalla
    youtu.be/329vcSNGKQQ?si=gExOO2

    #song #music #finnish #finnishlanguage #spelling #finland #finnishsong #finnishmusic #VeikkoLavi

  3. Naty @eclecticpassions ·

    New on ✍️

    ➡️ burgeonlab.com/blog/free-priva

    I don't know why I haven't written about my setup before; it's one of my favourite open source software. If you want to get a free and private & offline checker and proofreading app, this is your guide (for macOS, should be similar on Linux).

    If you have any feedback/questions, let me know!

  4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    And . . . Do Those Sheep Hallucinate Bullshit?

    (AI Detective FAILS for Your Consideration)


    AI, Reddit, and countless website “facts” pundits: Prepared to exonerate the next serial killer to roam free, while dumbing the world down gigahertz a second!

    Who is running this Artificial Intelligence? This Fatuous Forensic Criminology? This Whole Worldwide Factoid News Media?

    May God Allied Mastercomputer help us!

    I don’t want to hear any of the crap from the tech apologists who are going to cry, “Oh, that’s not AI; that’s just glorified autocomplete!”

    Your problem, not mine.

    If it’s calling itself “AI” or the humans who designed it have labeled it, “AI” – as you can clearly witness from the screen captures – then I judge it as AI.

    So . . .

    FAIL!

    . . . Next!

    . . . Another killer on the loose . . .

    #AI #AI #allen #analysis #analyzed #arthur #ArtificialIntelligence #autocomplete #benicia #biological #ChatGPT #circumstantial #clear #cleared #clears #collocation #comparison #compelling #contractions #DeepLearning #detective #dialect #diction #DNA #evidence #exclude #excluded #excludes #exclusion #fail #failure #fingerprint #Forensic #gaviota #generative #Google #handwriting #idiolect #inconclusive #largeLanguageModel #lee #leigh #linguist #linguistics #link #LLM #murder #Napa #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #phraseology #phrases #physical #Reddit #Riverside #SanFrancisco #serial #solution #spelling #style #Vallejo #writing #ZodiacKiller
  5. Is it just me and my neurodiverse brain, or does everyone notice minutiae like this – and then feel compelled to blog about it?
    👉philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/e
    What sorcery is this? 🪄 I often catch myself typing 'anough' for 'enough'. It's also closer to how I pronounce it. I may adopt this spelling out of spite. Does this happen in other languages?
    #language #forensics #linquistics #phonetics #archaeology #cognition #signals #writing #prescription #english #ghoti #spelling #orthography #typos #enough

  6. Dear fellow author I am currently reading -- it is fazed, not phased. It is retched, not wretched. If you know you can't spell, get someone who can to check your work. #spelling #proofreading

  7. TIL the word is spelled "sherbet" not "sherbert" -- and i'm working to process that...

    #Spelling #writing #silly #sherbet #IceCream #Sorbet

  8. Words¹ misspelled² so often, even in edited text, that my copy-editor's heart does a little happy dance when I see them spelled appropriately:

    ad nauseam, complement, its, just deserts, led, minuscule, principle, supersede

    ¹ In a broad sense, to include phrases.
    ² The descriptivist in me protests the implicit judgement, but "spelled in a nonstandardized way" is on the wordy side for a throwaway Mastodon post.

    #language #spelling #words #EnglishUsage #editing #copyediting #proofreading

  9. "The following groups of words illustrate variations in spelling that may occur in roots or inflectional endings of related words in different parts of speech."

    Spelling and Vocabulary for the Secretary
    by Long, Tillett, and Woodbridge
    for Katharine Gibbs School, New York

    ----------------------
    After I became a proofreader, my dad gave me this reference book, which belonged to my grandmother who I never met. She traveled to New York to attend Katharine Gibbs School in the 1930s and later became a chief administrator at Duke Hospital.

    She must have used this book quite often. It is worn and filled with her handwritten notes. I wish I could have connected with her as a fellow word nerd.

    ----------------------
    #page42 #pagina42 #hashtaggames
    • Grab the nearest book.
    • Turn to page 42.
    • Find the 2nd sentence.
    • Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag and write the rules as a comment to it.
    • Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
    • Don’t forget the hashtags.

    #proofreading #spelling #secretary #bookstodon #book

  10. To improve findability, alternative spellings for English terms have been added to General Finnish Ontology YSO. Previously, British English spellings were favoured [sic], but now they have been joined by American English spellings: theatre and theater, self-defense and self-defense, organisational behaviour and organizational behavior etc. Over 600 YSO concepts were provided with an additional spelling. #YSO #english #britishenglish #americanenglish #spelling #ortography

  11. Went to ship a package the other day and the guy in the Post Office insisted on trying to pronounce my name. He did pretty great, considering the surprising twists I've heard. Said he takes pride in guessing people's pronounciations, told him he surprised me with his near-perfect guess.
    #extra #consonants #mispronounce #pronounciation #surname #given #name #chosen #spelling #uncle #namesake #junior #third #fourth #inherit #moniker #Russian #grandparents #USA #immigrants #power the #UnitedStates

  12. #Canada's #Trudeau #resigns as Liberal Party leader, #spelling end to time in power.

    “E N D T O T I M E I N P O W E R”

    Correct! Lucy, tell Mr Trudeau what he’s won!

    “Well Greg, Mr Trudeau has won this fine set of Japanese kitchen knives & a weekend for 2 in Vancouver!”

    #CanadianNews #auspol #SpellingBee

    9news.com.au/world/justin-trud

  13. Is #editing just checking #grammar & #spelling? No, it's much more: "[G]ood editors are #technically proficient. ... However, truly excellent editors also follow their #instincts. ... Editing, then, is not just an intellectual exercise but an emotional one too." tinyurl.com/y8f3eup3 #AmEditing

  14. @siv @shojiwax agree. Though I use #Tusky which doesn't appear to have a payment process but I'm open to being directed to such a thing.

    I do pay my instance however, but once again it's more of a donation than a cast in stone #requirement.

    So many folks are using #Mastodon now and it seems to me that the ppl doing the work should be #reimbursed for their costs #technically (hardware, services etc), as well as for the work they must either put in themselves or get #volunteers to do for them, which isn't always 💯% effective as evidenced by some instances where a user gets their arse kicked for a #spelling error seen by one #moderator as death for the user and by another on the same instance as ho hum not worth a thought.

    I only #donate $8 per #month which in real terms is nothing, but in terms of the value we derive from the #platform as users can be life changing for an #instance manager, if enough ppl say I really want this to continue, so I will donate the equiv of a cup of #coffee for example and do so #monthly.

  15. I know this has been floating around the interwebs for a while, but it's always very interesting when I come across it.

    #Reading #TheMind #Spelling #MindPower

  16. @AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic To that, I add, “I will re-read that thing I sent 3-4 times, find and correct the #spelling errors and small #clarifications of stuff I thought but didn’t type.” And that’s on top of the 2-3 times I re-read it in my head before sending it and #pondering the various #interpretations and #responses.

    Sometimes I force myself to send without looking, but I need to do #relaxing #breathing after. Hehe 🤢🤢🤮

    #actuallyautistic