Fear and loathing of languages - Fear no more!

[chrisnotton]

Originally Posted by Charles Phillips

Acksherly, there is a spellchecker available. It works by pressing the little ABC with a tick underneath (in the top right hand corner of the 'advanced' message compilation window).

As far as I recall, if you press on this and haven't got a tiny little utility prog called iespell installed, you will be prompted to install it, and a few seconds later Bob's your uncle!

I don't get no "ABC". Perhaps you have to have the iespell installed first?

Pip pip

[IRITALIA]

Originally Posted by Charles Phillips

Acksherly, there is a spellchecker available. It works by pressing the little ABC with a tick underneath (in the top right hand corner of the 'advanced' message compilation window).

As far as I recall, if you press on this and haven't got a tiny little utility prog called iespell installed, you will be prompted to install it, and a few seconds later Bob's your uncle!

I did try this before Charles and again just now but the link to download the UK English version only says the site does not exist anymore.
It seems the last version was in 2006 and no longer available!

[chrisnotton]

Originally Posted by IRITALIA

I did try this before Charles and again just now but the link to download the UK English version only says the site does not exist anymore.
It seems the last version was in 2006 and no longer available!

I did find a few versions available on the Internet to download but the reason I don't see it is I don't use IE! and it is an IE specific program.

Bak two badd spellinge four mee

Pip pip

[IRITALIA]

Originally Posted by chrisnotton

I did find a few versions available on the Internet to download but the reason I don't see it is I don't use IE! and it is an IE specific program.

Bak two badd spellinge four mee

Pip pip

The ownly alternatif is to right evrythink in WORD, du a spelcheque and then payst it hear!

[juliancoll]

Yaw awl mad - if evryfink ear woz sphelt wright we woodunt bee abl two reed it and den wot wud wee doo? Weed haff two get Sally two translayt everyfink.

[alan h]

If you get the 'Google Toolbar' - it has a spillchucker built in

I [nearly] always use it when posting.
[It even wants to change 'spillchucker' to 'spell checker' for some reason!]


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[Charles Phillips]

You can download iespell from ieSpell - Reviews and free ieSpell downloads at Download.com (A CNET site and absolutely reliable). It does only work with IE.

[M&C]

I keep forgetting this forum exists!!

I lived and worked in France for a year in the 80's, near Bois de Vincennes just outside Paris. It took me 6 months to utter a word for fear of ridicule but one day my boss was away and I was on my own in the workshop and a call came in, I didn't know who it was but had to speak something - so I did. When I got back to the team I was staying with they were all ecstatic and said it was one of the team leaders who'd called and my French was near perfect! I was utterly embarrassed (but secretly chuffed!) but it still took another 2 months of cajoling and encouragement.

I'm the same with Italian. My wife (and our eldest) are both pretty good with languages, but I'm rubbish. We have the Michael Thomas CDs - she's gone straight through them all, out the other side and onto the advanced ones. I'm still trying to get the first track on CD1 right - over 3 years later!! However - it balances out. She absolutely refuses to drive in Italy. I - on the other hand, can drive Italian almost fluently. I just have yet to master some of the more complicated gestures.... and driving 2" (5cm in eurospeak) off the bumper of the guy in front with half of your car in the on-comming lane!

Hoping we can afford our usual Italian excursion this year.