General Chat

Technology advance has been great in my lifetime. When I was at school I don’t think I ever envisaged that I would communicate electronically with friends and family. It is wonderful that I can and that it is so instant. That is a good thing. And If I spell something incorrectly the computer will correct it.. Is that also a good thing? In my opinion, yes and no. If i then proof read what I have written and correct any computer errors that is fine. If, as many correspondents in newspapers seem to do, I rely on what the computer thinks I mean it is a bad thing. I have just read a piece in the local paper Not actually a very gripping piece concerning the removal some time ago of the head of a statue by a visiting football team. The final sentence of the piece is......
“We would love to know if a football team has ‘the head’ in their procession.”
A proof reader would have picked that one up I think.

You can always tell who relies on a spell-checker, because all the long difficult words are spelt correctly but shorter ones like there/their, affect/effect or alter/altar are often wrong.

Some time ago a notice appeared on our local buses telling passengers not to stand in the isles. The local newspaper had a letter the following week saying "our buses have no isles, not even traffic islands". :-)

The bus notice disappeared shortly after.

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And too often the predictive gives the US version, of a word

My IPad ms to think it knows better than I do when it comes to the choice of words. :-D :-D :-D

I rest my case ;-) ;-)

Copied from a review of a toilet brush on the Habitat website:

"The brussels are hard when cleaning."


Of course, maybe that's what the reviewer thought the word actually was, rather than it being an auto-spell mistake.

My challenges with modern technology involve sub titles on TV.
Live broadcasts are the worst and although I am very grateful for the help they can give, there are times when I am left wondering.

This morning's weather forecast by Carol Kirkwood informed me that over Scotland 'minibuses will move into the North Sea'. :-S

Love it Gwyn. I wonder that somebody has not compiled a book on the wonders of sub titles. (In that I often wonder what was really said),

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This morning, I've (so far) read, in an online newspaper about 'the 'Conversative' contender', and, in another article that 'sirens were 'herd'

Empty crowds referred to yesterday in the online Express ( always good for a laugh)

Lol two good ones there Maggie.
I wonder what an empty crowd looks like? Anyone seen one?

Bit difficult, if it's empty! :-)

Good things that can be bad? How about Tesco’s technical systems? Wonderful when working but I bet all those people who failed to get a delivery yesterday wished delivery sorters/managers still worked with a clipboard and pen.

Some of the errors mentioned on here have made me laugh. I saw this yesterday; not so much an error as a case of stating the b******* obvious. I was informed that heat stroke and heat exhaustion were most likely to occur in heat. Really, and there’s me thinking it usually happened on a wet winter’s day.

I can be guilty of not proof reading myself. I once emailed someone about something I had posted asking him to pick it up “before K does”, only I typed “before K dies”, an unfortunate error as K was quite unwell at the time.

Vera, a case of relying on Technology with no back up for that sort of problem. Thinking about it, other than resorting to the old order book left at the grocers as we did in the 60s with the coop when they delivered, I can't think of a way to back up their huge system. Unless by having a second system in some way. Any ideas?

Talking of typos, a friend of mine was going to a funeral. She texed a friend before hand and this is what she typed.
Hi D, how about we go for a coffin before the funeral?

She only realised after she had sent the message and friend replied," is that meant to be funny?" She was mortified but luckily the friend saw the funny side and they laughed about it but it could have been a relative of the deceased and that would have be dreadful. Modern technology for you with a computer guessing what you are going to write...pre defined text I think its called.

I always read back before I send now as I accidentally sent a message to someone else by mistake but was able to delete before it was read!

Florence in the hebrides

Here's another that could have done with a bit of proofreading, though I rather like the picture it conjures up.

A large shop in our town has closed down and a small local bakery has taken over the premises. It is a big expansion for them.and when I passed today they had a temporary counter set up and a display of bread and cakes etc. They also had a couple of tables with customers having coffee. Outside was a large notice which said

Until we are fully open we are having a few 'wing it' days. While we are all learning would the kind people of (town) please bare with us.

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I have to admit, when I was working, I sent a few emails that started 'Hell'
Sometimes it was a typo - sometimes not :-D :-D

Hell’s bells, Maggie, that’s letting your fingers do the walking. :-D :-D :-D

I love that Vera. :-D :-D :-D