Just An Idle Thought

[roscoe]

What's "Amerenglish?(sic)"?

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answer : the reason for a spell-checker(I'm glad someone spotted the deliberate mistake ,that's my excuse anyway)

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Sorry to only answer half of your question; sic,used to indicate a quoted passage or word ,especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been quoted in its original form or written intentionally

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I'm familiar with "sic", roscoe - it's the original post with "Amerenglish" - I'm not with you there, buddy!

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Spoken in a very sardonic manner by Jeremy Paxman on News Night;

""Amerenglish"?Well I suppose it's slightly more self descriptive than some words I have encountered!

Where he encountered it I know not.

(I will endeavour to find out)

[roscoe]

If you use Mac OS/X it has a system-wide spell-checker that you can activate in any properly written application. Checks spelling as you type.

It flagged this: "colour" as misspelled!

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...I assume you can correct it's Amerenglish so that it knows better next time...?

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It also flagged endeavour as a vairient of endeavor .Cheek.

[The Philosopher]

Only the language of love is universal

[roscoe]

Only the language of love is universal

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Not if it's got a "u" in it apparently .

It would also change the spelling of that wellknown brand &lt;deleted&gt; to the same as the word it is not supposed to resemble?

[Kringle]

I wish I could find a translation site (like babelfish) from Thai to English  as most of the business websites in Thailand don't have English versions.

Where have you been?

Have a look here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32659

and here: http://www.thai2english.com

and here: http://www.thai-language.com

Not what i'm looking for as it doesn't help with translating a biz or forum type of website so really serves no good to me. I guess Thai business people just don't want to do biz, sad isn't it.

[TizMe]

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.