but spelling is not

We are supposed to watch an Electronic Design video on the basis that John Larkin - who can't spell semester - thinks it includes a spelling error? One of the better engineers I've known was hopelessly dyslexic, to the point where he couldn't be persuaded that "there", "their" and "they're" were different words.

His insights were worth having even if his spelling was eccentric.

I think that John was simply pointing out there's a spelling error in the title of the article (and the URL for that matter): "Time Synchronization is Crucial in Modern Electonics"

Electonics? At least get the title right!

One of the better engineers I've known was hopelessly dyslexic,

Perhaps, and errors of that sort won't be picked up by a spell checker, although a grammar checker should. I've never understood why people can't be bothered to use the spell checker built in to most, if not all, news clients.

A spelling checker is welcome to highlight what it thinks are errors, but the current fad of interactively autocompleting or autocorrecting my prose is a royal nuisance. Those 'features' are sure to change the meaning of what I was trying to write. I always switch it off. Too bad if that means that the occasional error will slip through.

Spelling checkers are a nuisance when you often switch language, too. I trust grammar checkers even less.

Jeroen Belleman

Spell-checking is fine, but auto-completion is a total nuisance and auto-correction gets it wrong often enough that I do turn it off.

I can speak, read andunderstand Dutch fluently, but nobody ever wanted me to write anything in Dutch, so I never did enough of it to get the grammatical rules properly internalised.