| Author | Message | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1288 Registered: 4-2007 |
I've been away for a while, but I came across something that I thought would make a good puzzle. I generally consider it important to spell corrrectly. So why, when writing something recently, did I deliberately misspell a word? | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 110 Registered: 5-2009 |
To find out whether someone would notice it? To invoke a certain connotation of the word? Because readers would assume the misspelled form was in fact correct? Are computers relevant to the solution? Was what you wrote intended to be published? To be sent or given to a single person? To several persons? Just to be processed by a machine? To be read only by yourself? Not to be read at all for some time (e.g. a will written by a person who probably won't die soon)? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1292 Registered: 4-2007 |
To find out whether someone would notice it? No To invoke a certain connotation of the word? No Because readers would assume the misspelled form was in fact correct? No Are computers relevant to the solution? Yes Was what you wrote intended to be published? To be sent or given to a single person? To several persons? Just to be processed by a machine? To be read only by yourself? Not to be read at all for some time (e.g. a will written by a person who probably won't die soon)? It could be any of these really. I'd have been less likely to misspell the word if it was only to be read by me though. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 114 Registered: 5-2009 |
Spellchecking relevant? Spam filtering? Printing? E-Mail? Other internet services? Availability of certain characters on a keyboard? ASCII? Was the text you wrote in English? Would the lateral work with a text in another language? Any other language? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1293 Registered: 4-2007 |
Spellchecking relevant? Yup Spam filtering? Printing? E-Mail? Other internet services? Availability of certain characters on a keyboard? Yes ASCII? No to everything else Was the text you wrote in English? No Would the lateral work with a text in another language? There are probably many languages it would work with Any other language? I think there are some it would not work with. Making good progress already :-) | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 117 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is there a difference between "Yup" and "Yes"? Umlauts, acutes or similar characters relevant? Would it have been difficult to enter the correct spelling on your computer? Did you expect your readers to run into difficulties if they had to handle the text with correct spelling? | ||
| Alex319 (Alex319)
New member Username: Alex319 Post Number: 809 Registered: 5-2007 |
Is the word you deliberately misspelled the word "correctly" in the puzzle statement? (You spelled it with three r's.) | ||
| Rubberduck (Rubberduck)
New member Username: Rubberduck Post Number: 147 Registered: 3-2006 |
Did you spell correctly wrong in order to make this puzzle? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1294 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is there a difference between "Yup" and "Yes"? No, sorry didn't mean to confuse. Umlauts, acutes or similar characters relevant? Yes Would it have been difficult to enter the correct spelling on your computer? yes Did you expect your readers to run into difficulties if they had to handle the text with correct spelling? Not this Alex and Rubberduck: No, that was completely unintentional! I checked really carefully to make sure I hadn't misspelled anything in the statement because I thought that would confuse people. Not carefully enough, clearly. | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 365 Registered: 5-2009 |
Did you spell a word without an accent mark, and your word processor auto-corrected it for you? Technically, the word would've been misspelled. | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1296 Registered: 4-2007 |
Did you spell a word without an accent mark, and your word processor auto-corrected it for you? Technically, the word would've been misspelled. Not quite this, but heading along the right lines. My misspelling was a little more than just missing off an accent. | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 367 Registered: 5-2009 |
Are you using a word processor that has an auto-corrector? Relevant? Is this why you made your deliberate error? Is there a special key that you set to an auto-correct that you cannot conveniently type on a regular QWERTY keyboard? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1297 Registered: 4-2007 |
Are you using a word processor that has an auto-corrector? Relevant? No. It's the spellcheck function rather than autocorrect that's relevant here Is this why you made your deliberate error? Is there a special key that you set to an auto-correct that you cannot conveniently type on a regular QWERTY keyboard? No, but still thinking along the right lines. | ||
| Markobr (Markobr)
New member Username: Markobr Post Number: 137 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is your keyboard defective in any way? Is the spellcheck function only relevant insofar as it caused you to *deliberately* misspell (otherwise you wouldn't have noticed something was misspelled)? Did you expect the correct and the misspelled version of the word would look the same for your reader(s)? | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 373 Registered: 5-2009 |
Do you want to "add" the word to the dictionary? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1298 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is your keyboard defective in any way? Only in that it doesn't have accented characters Is the spellcheck function only relevant insofar as it caused you to *deliberately* misspell (otherwise you wouldn't have noticed something was misspelled)? No, I consciously did the misspelling. The spellcheck is relevant in a different way. Did you expect the correct and the misspelled version of the word would look the same for your reader(s)? No Do you want to "add" the word to the dictionary? No. In fact, this would only work if the word that I actually wanted to write was already in the dictionary. | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 375 Registered: 5-2009 |
I mean, let's say you're typing a proper noun that isn't in the dictionary. For example, let's say that I want to write "Pikachizzle" in every article that I write, but I'm tired of getting a red underline, telling me that "Pikachizzle" is spelled incorrectly, when it's merely my name. So I go to spellcheck and "add" "Pikachizzle" to the dictionary. | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1300 Registered: 4-2007 |
I mean, let's say you're typing a proper noun that isn't in the dictionary. For example, let's say that I want to write "Pikachizzle" in every article that I write, but I'm tired of getting a red underline, telling me that "Pikachizzle" is spelled incorrectly, when it's merely my name. So I go to spellcheck and "add" "Pikachizzle" to the dictionary. But in that case you would have been spelling the word "Pikachizzle" correctly, it's just that the spellcheck doesn't recognise it. In my case, I wanted to type a word that was recognised by the spellcheck, but instead I typed it wrong. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 262 Registered: 10-2008 |
Just to be clear--accents are relevant to the puzzle, but the word wasn't just missing an accent? Did it have an unnecessary accent? Or...was it missing a letter? Did it have an extra letter? Was it off by more than one letter? More than one syllable? Was it spelled phonetically, but incorrectly? Were you trying to test the spellcheck? Seeing if you could trick it? Could more than one word work in this scenario? Could any word work? | ||
| Pikachizzle (Pikachizzle)
New member Username: Pikachizzle Post Number: 381 Registered: 5-2009 |
Is your document really long and you're too lazy to use the search function, so you misspelled a word as a placeholder? Shots in the dark, now. | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1301 Registered: 4-2007 |
Just to be clear--accents are relevant to the puzzle, but the word wasn't just missing an accent? Correct. Did it have an unnecessary accent? No Or...was it missing a letter? Did it have an extra letter? Was it off by more than one letter? More than one syllable? Was it spelled phonetically, but incorrectly? Could be any of these really, so long as it was spelled wrongly. Were you trying to test the spellcheck? No Seeing if you could trick it? No Could more than one word work in this scenario? Yes Could any word work? No | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1302 Registered: 4-2007 |
Is your document really long and you're too lazy to use the search function, so you misspelled a word as a placeholder? No, but that's a clever idea. | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 277 Registered: 10-2008 |
Do you ever intend to correct the misspelling? If so, on the computer? After printing? Do you expect someone else to correct it? Does the word have to be a certain length to work? Start with a certain letter? Contain a certain letter(s)? Have a certain definition? | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1303 Registered: 4-2007 |
Do you ever intend to correct the misspelling? Yes If so, on the computer? This After printing? No Do you expect someone else to correct it? No Does the word have to be a certain length to work? No Start with a certain letter? No Contain a certain letter(s)? Well, it has to contain characters that are hard to type (like accented characters, or I would just type it. Other than that, no. Have a certain definition? No | ||
| Alex319 (Alex319)
New member Username: Alex319 Post Number: 810 Registered: 5-2007 |
Is it that you didn't want to have to type a character with an accent, so you misspelled the word and then used the spellchecker to correct it? | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 5 Registered: 6-2009 |
You wanted to find related words? (So if you put in shoy it might come up with: soy, shy, showy etc.) You didn't know the correct spelling? (Probably said before.) | ||
| Enjay (Enjay)
New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 1304 Registered: 4-2007 |
OK, this is very odd. I swear I posted the spoiler yesterday (Alex pretty much got it). It must have not gone through. Anyhow: ** SPOILER ** I often have to type in French using Microsoft Word, but my keyboard doesn't have accented characters. Sometimes I can just type the word unaccented and then use the spellcheck to correct it, but sometime the unaccented version of the word is also a valid word so the spellcheck doesn't come up with any suggestions. So, I spell the word slightly wrongly, then select the accented version from the list of spelling suggestions. It's quicker than manually adding in each accent. Thank you all for playing. | ||
| Quovynyte (Quovynyte)
New member Username: Quovynyte Post Number: 10 Registered: 6-2009 |
Well done Alex and Enjay! That was quite tricky! | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 287 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ah, I see. Good one. |
