Hi.
Ah I forgot about that room.

Hi.
@dark
Thanks for moving it.
As for it not looking to bad, I don't know what voice you use or screen reader but I found two words that were misspelled.

voluntiere instead of volunteer
And there is one will with one l missing.

You might think I'm making a big deal out of nothing but to me spelling is extra extra important, especially when running a sight or writing for it.
I know this would never happen, but any chance of me helping with that? I could check through the site and fix spelling mistakes, that way it would be easier on you. nah, I'm sure that can't happen but well, I tried. Plus my spelling isn't perfect.

hi.
@dark
I think it's the fact that you are using aurtheous or how ever you spell it, I'm not sure but I think you use hell, I know that's spelt wrong.

But the word volunteer, is spelt wrong. Look it up on the internet if you don't believe me, it's what i did.
Plus my screen reader says it wrong so...

As for your thing about spelling not mattering as much as DB entries, I totally disagree with that.
Surely it's better to have a correctly spelt entry than 100 misspelled ones?
Doesn't anyone else agree with me on this?
As for the hole HTML thing, couldn't you write up your posts in a plane text editor like notepad and then add the HTML template around that?

Well I'm actually not using Orphius anymore, and am using realspeak. I have noticed the capitalisation thing Casta, though usually I have Hal set to read capitals as I type, though generally realspeak is slightly worse on spelling and pronounciation  overall, but I'm stuck at the moment since orphius has crashed on me.

What particularly irritates me with realspeak is the way it can't apply the same rules to unusual words and fantasy conventions as it can to English.

For example postman or policeman it does fine with, but cyberman it says as "cyber an" with a completely missing m for no readily apparent reason, and never mind what it does to more unusual words or fantasy names.

I also ddislike the way it has preset acronyms and will speak them irrispective of situation. Being told in a game my character has 46 horse power and 84 street instead of Hp and St is quite annoying, as is reading about that well known self voicing system for windows, manuscript sapi.

Then again, for rythm, for pleasant phonemes and for intonnation Daniel is a far better option than eloquence, which is pretty much my only other choice at this point (I particularly dislike eloquence's attempt at British English).

Regarding spelling, really, English is a stupid language, voluntiere should end t e a r!

I fixed voluntiere the other day so if it's still showing as wrong that's a problem at your end (and btw Brad, my screen reader is Hal, H A L), or at least it was before the official name changed to supernova screen reader as it did a few versions ago.

As I said I don't mind correcting these, but there really are more important things to do on the Db, and certainly all the entries do get a read through and obvious corrections by me before posting.

I generally prefer not to comment on other peoples' orthography when nobody, including me, is perfect at it, but it's really quite important for clarity of communication to spell correctly.

Unfortunately, English is a very nasty language, not just orthographically but syntactically and semantically as well, leading to all sorts of abuses which make making spelling and grammar mistakes unreasonably easy. Blind people all seem to have been guilty, at one stage or another, of simply trusting their TTS, leading to very interesting spellings. If you learn to spell, then a braille display can be enormously helpful in verifying your spelling and practising using the words of others. Obviously, it helps to have and use a spell checker too, and ideally also a dictionary and thesaurus. On Windows I found that this was difficult unless you had an office suite installed, but on Mac (yes, yes, Windows vs Mac again) every text entry field has spell check, leading to instant spelling improvements for me.

On this forum, I've become accustomed to spelling just not being well attended, and taken it for granted that since we're all in the same boat, nobody is going to mind too badly. It's about games, many of us are blind, and we can all afford to relax and forgive any digressions. Sadly though, when you're publishing a website that is intended to attract some degree of serious visitors, not spelling correctly basically amounts to giving a pass to a frustrating and unnecessary eyesore. So, any effort to correct serious runs of spelling errors would, I think, contribute to a more professional impression. This is not, BTW, to suggest that we all turn into lifeless headmasters, simply that we make some amount of effort.

Well obviously I do! use ms word's spellcheck system when writing things for publication such as my thesisor indeed when I write book reviews or articles. The principle problem with the db is that since I have to hand code all the html, running a spellcheck constantly flags the code (heck html in ms word is a bit loopy anyway which is why I use wordpad for writing the entries).

I will occasionally copy words into ms word to check their spelling, which is indeed what I did with voluntiere, but I can't do that with the complete entry.

Regarding Braille displays, well I don't unfortunately own one due to high cost and general ability to manage without, but equally it's actually been reading braille that buggered my spelling due to reading in grade 2. Heck, I still! occasionally slip up and write say little with one t.

I will also add that spelling is a regional thing, and I use British varients, for example  thorough, colour or armour with O U R, not O R as the American spelling, so it is possible that some people's spellchecks if set to American English flag up mistakes that are not mistakes (i've seen this happen on several occasions).

It is true about English being a stupid language, indeed id I often have discussions with my Italian teacher about the fact that English is irregular in it's applications of gramatical rules, ---- in fairness Italian also has some random irregularities, for example there are some verbs that have random irregular forms and some that don't, (though in some ways Structurally different to Spanish, this is one major difference I notice, since Spanish was far more regular).

Interestingly enough though, Italian, like spanish is entirely phonetic. Myself, I'm still of the opinion that English should be phoneticised, that all words should just be spelt as they sound, not by some random rules setup by a nutty Scotsman 5 hundred years ago. Btw, this is apparently why the g h is used in so many English words like Thorough, because Samual Jonson had a distinct scotish bur. I've also heard that many of our modern english spellings aare borrowed from Middle English, but middle English iis! phonetic.

For example the middle english word for knight is spealt exactly the same way, but apparently pronounced ka-'nig'hit, rather like the German for King.

So yes, English is Silly!

As I've said I don't mind correcting stuff, however equally I'm not going to loose too much sleep over a few buggered letters, heck even when i was writing my thesis and my research assistant (who has a masters in English Language), was looking over it and querying every single possible vague gramatical foyble, there were various spellings that she admitted were just personal choice, eg, i s e or I Z E at the end of words like initialize. Even I'm not completely sure on that one since while using the s is the traditional British spelling, z is closer to the way the words are actually pronounced.

I think the thing that irritates me most about English spellings is that we so often reduce vowels to a flat uh sound, even when this is a completely different vowel to what is written. for example, most people do not actually say the word evil as "ee vill" but as something closer to "ee vul" likewise, a word like taken is not said as "tay ken" but as "tay kun"

This actually comes up a lot in singing since it's far easier to have your audience able to hear your words if you sing the vowels as written, rather than as pronounced, but if you overdo this you end up sounding completely artificial and lacking in emotion, ---- I recently had a peace of very angry orotorio recitative where I actually had to tell people to "repent! of the! EEE vill!" not Repent of the evil"

And this gets even when worse when you add in need to alter mouth position in order to sing higher, for instance when singing the part from the Messiah "every valley shal be exaulted!" I actually have to change three quarters of the way through a long run to "exaaaalted!" just to be certain that my A flat will not take too much muscular pressure.

indeed I suspect it is my singing which is the reason why most people say I have a very propper and somewhat overly posh accent and way of speaking .