Is Yahoo calling us stupid by installing a spelling and grammar checker? Or are they really trying to help us?

Question

with our grammar and punctuation?

And is the new software helpful or annoying?

Answer 1

It is helpful to me. I am not stupid, but I don't spell well or I type so fast I make errors, it helps me  see them, or at least it does when it is working, LOL!

Blessings!

Answer 2

The spelling and grammar checks help me understand what some questioners are trying to ask.  Does that make me stupid or them?

Answer 3

Considering the number of misspellings and grammatical errors I see, I think it is a very necessary assistance.

Answer 4

No, but some of the answers on here are so p[oorly written that I'd be unable to translate half of them.  Once in a while I'll mis spell something by making a typo and inevitably theres two or three people giving me spelling or grammer lessons but disregarding the Question that Another user or myself posted.

Answer 5

I dnot cear  I sepell  doog  

Answer 6

I can't blame them for it - a good third of all the answers I see are completely or very near completely unintelligible. Unfortunately, I doubt that someone who takes so little care in answering a question correctly will take the time to spell check their grammatical catastrophe of a reply.  

Answer 7

i feel your stupid for asking this question ....... and get a brain

Answer 8

...hello stupid is not a friendly greeting...yet, it feels like grade school with all the flashing reminders...

...has Y!A stooped that low in clientele...

Answer 9

they are trying to help...loser

Answer 10

Some people don't have the best punctuation and grammar. Spell check is a useful tool for those people. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Answer 11

get a life.

Answer 12

I think it saves them money.  The less space and "punctuation" on the server will save money.

Also for all the IE users who don't have spell check..

Answer 13

No, they think we are stupid, obese americans. Or, non-americans.

Stupid judgmental yahoo (: good thing it's a awesome website.

Answer 14

Strikes me the people who can't spell ignore it anyway.

I find it very annoying, especially since yahoo are being petty enough to say that the word "google" is incorrect, just because they're the competition.

Answer 15

Both.  And I don't mean to offend the majority who write reasonably lucid prose, but some of our confreres are not as able and take liberties with the mother tongue.  I find them more annoying than the software!

Answer 16

Have you looked at the spelling and grammar in here .?????????????????

Some people in here need it desperately

Answer 17

Yes.

Answer 18

It's annoying to me.

It constantly tells me that I've made errors when I know for a fact that I got the spelling right. And once it said that I spelled "counselor" wrong and asked if I wanted to change it to "counselor", which is the exact same spelling.