I've had it. SPELLCHECK!

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Slowly but surely, my profs are making me lose my mind. In both notes and Powerpoints, one prof in particular has mountains of spelling errors.

Just looking at the current presentation...

Absorbsion
Developement
Retro-occular
Creascent
Thyroglubulin

Last I checked, every Powerpoint program ever made has a spellchecker. Would it kill them to use it? Does this bother anyone else?
 
Flaxmoore said:
Slowly but surely, my profs are making me lose my mind. In both notes and Powerpoints, one prof in particular has mountains of spelling errors.

Just looking at the current presentation...

Absorbsion
Developement
Retro-occular
Creascent
Thyroglubulin

Last I checked, every Powerpoint program ever made has a spellchecker. Would it kill them to use it? Does this bother anyone else?
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Maybe there is something wrong with what you see and the way you interpret what you see. But one advice,before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?




Have a good day.
 
Yes some professors have some trouble with certain words, but most people do too.

I have a problem with people using loose for lose but just a personal issue.
 
Hucked on fonix wurked fo me! Although, for some reason the further I went in my education the worse my spelling has become, go figure.
 
the problem is, spell check picks up a lot of chemistry and biology terms. it can be a real pain in the *** in a particularly dense lecture. my typed-up study notes are the same way.
 
arsenewenger said:
Maybe there is something wrong with what you see and the way you interpret what you see. But one advice,before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?




Have a good day.
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What does walking a mile in their shoes have to do with spelling errors?
 
zahque said:
the problem is, spell check picks up a lot of chemistry and biology terms. it can be a real pain in the *** in a particularly dense lecture. my typed-up study notes are the same way.
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Ugh, yes I hate this with a passion. Especially when Word decides to auto-correct.
 
What ticks me off more than spelling mistakes (and yes, I'm very anal about misspellings) are notes written in Comic Sans.

That font should be banned FROM THE UNIVERSE.
 
Flaxmoore said:
Slowly but surely, my profs are making me lose my mind. In both notes and Powerpoints, one prof in particular has mountains of spelling errors.

Just looking at the current presentation...

Absorbsion
Developement
Retro-occular
Creascent
Thyroglubulin

Last I checked, every Powerpoint program ever made has a spellchecker. Would it kill them to use it? Does this bother anyone else?
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We have a prof who makes up words. Instead of of saying "orient" he says "orientate" as in "you can see the vessel is orientated in this direction." And he does it every single time.
 
nogolfinsnow said:
We have a prof who makes up words. Instead of of saying "orient" he says "orientate" as in "you can see the vessel is orientated in this direction." And he does it every single time.
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This word used to drive me crazy as well... until I looked it up in the dictionary and realized it is actually not incorrect. Who knew?
 
While it is unprofessional to have misspellings and factually incorrect information in a presentation, it irks me more when a specific comment is made about the error and the instructor neglects to correct it for future presentations.
 
soeagerun2or said:
While it is unprofessional to have misspellings and factually incorrect information in a presentation, it irks me more when a specific comment is made about the error and the instructor neglects to correct it for future presentations.
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The only conclusion from your post is that you do not make mistakes,hmmm (Another medical student with a God complex....anyone shocked?). I am always amazed as to the level of confidence people like you exhibit . You talk and act as if you've got everything figured out. However, it is always nice to have it at the back of your mind that "before destruction the heart of soeagerun is haughty" and that pride comes before destruction.



Thanks and have a blessed day!
 
arsenewenger said:
The only conclusion from your post is that you do not make mistakes
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You're jumping to conclusions.

arsenewenger said:
I am always amazed as to the level of confidence people like you exhibit . You talk and act as if you've got everything figured out. However, it is always nice to have it at the back of your mind that "before destruction the heart of soeagerun is haughty" and that pride comes before destruction.
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What are you talking about? Is it so unreasonable to expect that a person with a doctorate in a topic would be able to spell their words properly?
 
Oh, hey, look, somebody else was throwing a fit about someone else's grammar....

arsenewenger said:
**** you.


How do you pluralize date. It's like saying informations/baggages/luggages and so on. The point is that data can either be singular or plural in usage. You have no right whatsoever to correct anybody regarding how they use or construct their written English. Your (physiologyguy) written English is atrocious and internationally unacceptable.

It (Data) occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard. The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.
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TheProwler said:
You're jumping to conclusions.


What are you talking about? Is it so unreasonable to expect that a person with a doctorate in a topic would be able to spell their words properly?
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Not really, If the supposed person received his/her doctorate degree in English Language, Syntax, Grammar, Spelling and,well, Spelling Errors. How "spelling your words properly" contributes to one's intellectual growth is beyond me.
 
arsenewenger said:
Not really, If the supposed person received his/her doctorate degree in English Language, Syntax, Grammar, Spelling and,well, Spelling Errors. How "spelling your words properly" contributes to one's intellectual growth is beyond me.
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How about when your doctorate is in medicine, and they can't spell diaphragm? Sounds on par with what you're saying, and I have two profs who consistently spell it wrong.
 
arsenewenger said:
The only conclusion from your post is that you do not make mistakes,hmmm (Another medical student with a God complex....anyone shocked?).
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That is a rather unreasonable conclusion. Prior to giving a presentation, I review my slides for spelling and accuracy as well as send them to colleagues for their input. Also, when errors are pointed out I correct them.
 
Flaxmoore said:
Last I checked, every Powerpoint program ever made has a spellchecker. Would it kill them to use it? Does this bother anyone else?
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To, too, and two
their, there and they're
your and you're

You're not being unreasonable at all. You're just expecting the concept of advanced education to mean something. What? Are the only ones around here expected to have correct grammar/spelling those with English degrees? We should expect our professors to rise to the occasion...as well as ourselves.

Let me put this out there. If anyone of you catches me in a spelling/grammar error, CALL ME ON IT. You're doing me a favor. IMHO
 
NSAIDAllergy said:
To, too, and two
their, there and they're
your and you're

You're not being unreasonable at all. You're just expecting the concept of advanced education to mean something. What? Are the only ones around here expected to have correct grammar/spelling those with English degrees? We should expect our professors to rise to the occasion...as well as ourselves.

Let me put this out there. If anyone of you catches me in a spelling/grammar error, CALL ME ON IT. You're doing me a favor. IMHO
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I agree. My dad is a Brit and I've always written judgment as judgement. So until someone told me I had no idea since both are acceptable.
 
Made up (or less commonly used forms of) words get on my nerves sometimes. One in particular is equilibriated instead of equalize, but what really makes it bad is that the professor who uses this has trouble saying it, so it often comes out equilibriumated or something close to it.

And then there's the huge size 32 bolded font title across the top of all of our lecture note packets for the last month...

ENDROCRINE
 
osli said:
And then there's the huge size 32 bolded font title across the top of all of our lecture note packets for the last month...

ENDROCRINE
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And the problem?
 
TMP-SMX said:
Yes some professors have some trouble with certain words, but most people do too.

I have a problem with people using loose for lose but just a personal issue.
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I hate this, almost as much as "rediculous." I probably see "rediculous" more often than the correct spelling. It seems very few people can spell that word correctly.
 
I can accept the occasional spelling error (like the OP's 'developement' example)

What irked me beyond belief in anatomy and what is annoying me now in pharm is when they would misspell terms or drugs. If its a new word, I don't know that it's misspelled, learn it the wrong way, then have to relearn it later when I realize what is going on.
 
or I really get a good laugh when there are notes for a lecture with a particularly "pesky" word to type over and over, like somatomammotropin for example. Not even sure I spelled it right. 😛 But I did get tickled when it showed up three or four times in a single lecture and it was spelled correctly the first time and became progressively shorter each time. Somatomammotropin, somamammotropin, somammotropin...
 
we have professors who have lots of typos too.

but my favorite is the professor that copied and pasted from wikipedia in her slides for multiple lectures...and didn't even bother to unlink the key words.
 
arsenewenger said:
Maybe there is something wrong with what you see and the way you interpret what you see. But one advice,before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?




Have a good day.
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Spelling errors are 22% less annoying than excess bolding.





By the way, teaching med school courses is almost last on the list of things your professors actually want to be doing with their time.
 
The typing and grammatical mistakes bug me, but what bugs me the most is some of our professors' unwillingness to update their syllabi. I really like learning information about drugs that was current as of 2004. 🙄
 
I've been very patient at my school about not complaining, but it was finally time to say something about our lecture notes and frequent spelling errors. When most of our classes rely upon Powerpoint, the lecture notes should be somewhat grammatically correct. Especially when the professor is from the U.S....not sure whether it's just being lazy or not caring, but I've had enough.
I'm sorry to see other schools having the same problem.

It makes me long for the pre=Powerpoint days when all we had was a textbook.
 
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