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RE: PM alert didnt work for me

Gfurlo — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:39:21 GMT

The scary part is, I could read that!

PS I enjoyed it.

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

ibafran — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:15:03 GMT

lets see spellcheck deal with this! hah.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,
which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year
phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will
make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in
favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one
less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year
when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words
like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
"ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
forst plas.

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

ibafran — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:32:14 GMT

as all y'all can surmise from my posts, i dont bother with the spell check. creative writing flows naturally with creative spelling.

my fav spell check story came about when i sent email to a 'puter security budd at his job. he ran the missive thru his spell check to make counting the errors easier. my email locked up his 'puter for about 2 hours. he luvs telling that story.

so, next time you have a suitable libation in hand, drink a toast to e.e.cummings and to the jobberwocky place. and beware the furybius bandersnatch...

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

torqueman — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:48:20 GMT

Thanks Cherrie. I just downloaded ieSpell and it works great. I was using Spellbound with Firefox but Firefox does not give you the WYSIWYG interface that you get with IE. Still bugs me it does not work in the forum but danged if I can find it.

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

Cherrie — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:04:43 GMT

If you had ieSpell you wouldn't have to worry about the spell checker. You can use it for just about anything. I love it!!

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

Gfurlo — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:08:27 GMT

This is just a test to see if I can get spell check to work.

Hay thanks Torq. It worked.

Now as I sit here, it comes to mind, so how did you discover that if I held my breath, jumped up and down on my left foot while humming the national anthem would make spell check work?

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

torqueman — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:51:54 GMT

The spell checker has been broken for some time. When you are ready to spell check click preview then when the screen repaints click the spell check right away and it will work. So far I have been unable to fix this and have requested the web guys look at it.

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

jerseyjim — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:50:55 GMT

Ahhhhhh, yes. Now I think I've got it.

When I sign on, next to "Recent Messages", it shows "0/2". I've deleted everything, twice, I think, but the "0/2" is still there.

I have no problem sending or recieving anything (as far as I know) but I've just learned to ignore the "0/2". Just like a new noise in the car....just turn up the volume on the radio: no more new noise!

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

ibafran — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:47:06 GMT

jerseyjim (11/12/2006)

Whattayouguys talking about?

....

the "private message" notification on this forum is not the "stone axe between the eyes" that my befuddled mind needs.

what i get is a change in the fraction that appears right before "Messages" on the "welcome" line.

the numerator indicates how many unread(?) messages i have waiting. the denominator indicates how many messages i have altogether (up to 50).

nothing changes color. so, if i dont remember what i have done in the que, i cant tell if i have a new message, or forgot to ackowledge that i have read all the messages.

as of this moment, i checked for new messages and found a new one (nearly missed it). i read it and went on to read new posts in the forum. but, i must have forgot to do something in the PM because the fraction should have indicted 0 (zero) in the numerator telling me that i have read all my PM.

if all y'all 'puter savvy people think this is funny, you should see me trying to deal with my GPS.

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

Gfurlo — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:39:07 GMT

Can not help on this one, but I do have a question about the spell check feature.

Lsat tmie I tired to use it it siad soemthnig about an expired cookie. I went to the frigareateor and got a glass of milk and a couple fig newtons, they didn't taste stale. So I don't get it. Why wlil not my sepel chcek wrok?

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

jerseyjim — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:27:10 GMT

Whattayouguys talking about?

This ol' guy just boots his thingy up, clicks on "my favorites", click on MCN and BOOM! Thar she be!

Yep...sometimes strangley slow, but.....

RE: PM alert didnt work for me

ibafran — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:35:41 GMT

ok. it sorta worked. i was expecting some sort of box or window to overlay the page when i visit the site. something unmistakable and so obvious that even a dolt like me wouldnt miss it. alas, the only difference was a fraction next to the "messages". the numerator doesnt change color if you get a new PM. its these esoteric bits with higher levels of meaning that escape me. i would insert an emoticon here if i knew which one was appropriate.

PM alert didnt work for me

ibafran — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:57:01 GMT

dont know if this should be in the forum tech part or not?

but, the PM javascript prompt didnt work for me when i needed it a couple of days ago. fortunately, no harm/inconvenience was done. if othersd are having the same problem. all y'all can add their experience here.