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I have a continuing vendetta against Spellcheck (of the Microsoft Word variety, as I have bothered with no other yet) for several reasons:
1. You cannot write poetry on Word because Spellcheck will have a field day with its sentence fragments and improper formatting.
2. I cannot for the life of me force Spellcheck to keep my default launguage as Canadian English, so I am forever getting flagged down for typing 'colour' and 'honour' and so on.
3. As visible in every part of the Internet, Spellcheck causes mass laziness and the loss of many functions of the thinking organ known as the brain.
4. As a general rule, I don't like inanimate objects that talk back.

On the plus side, it keeps utter illiteracy at a tolerably low level.

Essays: Yes
After writeing anywear from two to ten pages worth of essay, in size 12 font, there is no way I am going back to check it for errors, I would prefer to just be careful and read everything that spell check catches, correcting it everytime it makes a mistake.

Internet posting: Hell no
If you are too lazy to read a post that is likely not even a sentance long you shouldn't be typing anything.

RPing over the internet biggrin epends
if you are one of those people who's posts should be printed out and sold as a novle then feal free. But if you are one of those horrid noobs who prefer the entrance *walks into room* don't even think about it.

this is my opinion on just some of the uses for spell checker, of corse there are other sinarios and I can sit here all day and list them but... I'm to tired right now sweatdrop not to mention it would take forever.

Everything here is very very true, spell checkers are useful but you can't depend on them.

My Macbook has spellcheck integrated into many of it's programs automatically. Like my internet browser here has a spellcheck. I use it mainly for when I'm not sure of the spelling of a word, but aside from that, it only pops up when I've made a typo usually. People rely on them too heavily for my taste, but they work to make the illiterate seem literate.

I use them a lot, but in reality, I think I can do without them.

They're useful for as far as they go, but you do still need to proofread. I've actually never used one, though, and in my opinion, I wish people would use them more. "Soary im not a gud speler" is NOT an excuse for posting unreadable crap when you can easily click a button that will catch your most glaring mistakes. I don't think they promote laziness-- Yes, a person can think "I don't need to spell correctly, because the computer will fix it for me!" But the majority of people who spell poorly aren't going to become spelling wizards anyway, no matter how hard they proofread. Some people just can't spell. If you're one of those people, then please use the spellchecker instead of apologizing endlessly for your lack of spelling skills.

I just... don't understand some peoples' refusal to take thirty seconds to press a button that will make them look that much smarter to everyone.

I think that I am going to download "Linnux", as "Microsoft Word" is very limited. I think proofreading is needed when performing a task.
I admit that sometimes, I like to play around with "Microsoft Word", for instance:
High, Howe R you?
idea Perhaps, some how, it makes Bill Gates feel bad.