It would be interesting to set-up a blog for a few elementary school kids, and see what happens. No spell check, correcting grammar or any interference from an adult (except to make sure it stays kid friendly).

In fact, I can think of 3 such kids that have been on me to set them up a blog since I asked them to help me with my “25 Things…” a week or so ago.

It is something to keep in mind though.

We know that the English language is very ambiguous often having so many meaning for a single word, it borders on ridiculous. Someone coin a new word already!!

While it is hard to “vote” for misspellings by supporting the habit, cloaking the misspellings in a noscript is a great idea. This way you are maximizing your efforts. Hey, we have all been guilty of typing you when we meant your – a personal pet peeve of yours truly…and one I still do from time to time.

We do strive for perfection in writing and it is a noble goal, however, coming to terms with our “only human” nature just makes good sense.

A different problem is that when you are composing something, your head is in Compose Mode and your brain will actually fill in the errors and typos on the page, sort of visually tweaking them to flow with your gist during a re-read. I actually have to get up and change gears for a while to do a clean re-read and try to catch things, as I am notorious for intense and fast flow, speeding fingers that are merely human, and the perpetual struggle to get it all into text before the thought gets interrupted by another idea or thought…or any one of a million things…

So, I sort of wimped out ;P I would fail miserably as a secretary and I am not ashamed to admit it. I opened my new microphone package today and began training my voice recognition software, so now I can just talk and IT can do the typing. Typing is a laborious process for us non-typers, and I can say in the span of ten minutes what would take me hours to type.

No, I am not too big of a person to admit my Achilles heel. I am just incredibly thankful to find out that Vista comes with voice recognition software already installed – and that it rivals the top program in the field: Dragon Naturally Speaking. I had just never thought of it before, but a light went off in my brain when I finally Got It.

You have to train it and it isn’t perfect, but it does learn the more you use it. I can Speak hours worth of typing in merely minutes and do an edit of what IT has typed in farrrr less time than typing it myself…and my wrists are happier for the rest! I can run the whole computer from my headset, even the Web! I am still besides myself with amazement!

Still, designing with the reality of typos in mind makes good business sense and I have heard it from many pro’s. Many people don’t think to do it, that is what makes it prudent to do.

Your ideas here rock and I am totally going to employ them. Very savvy…thanks for sharing them.

Great posts. Looking forward to reading more of your stuff here, as I just discovered the site today.

Cheers…oh, and sorry for any typos ;P

Rigg