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Hard copies are much easier to correct. I always print my stuff for Mom to read, and just by looking at actual paper I can find some of my own mistakes.
emerald212 wrote:I agree. I always teach my students to see why Word underlined something, but they have to decide for themselves if it is correct. I tell them to buy a dictionary and have it next to them when they are writing. That way they can look up the word Word suggests (if they aren’t sure of the meaning) and change it accordingly. They also have a grammar handbook that would help too.
But mostly, I’m trying to teach them the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re” and other homophomes so they just know what is right. Yes, these are college students.
Nobody seems to know that anymore! It drives me nuts when somebody talks about how “their going to do something” or whatever. Augh. Also, the results when you let the spell check replace everything for you can be really rather funny. You end up saying something you really didn’t mean to say.
I get the whole sortiment of all possible spams from ebay as soon as I list something. SOme are as easy as ” can I have an interior picture of that mercedes” but many are very easy mistaken especially if the spammer takes more time and actually takes the right thing as the correct ebay section or of course the classical email from ebay itself. I always check where the log in link goes ( anything not starting with ebay or paypal etcetera yadda is out) and if I am still not sure I log in by going directly to ebay.com paypal.com etc.
fighting these spammails these days is like fighting the Hydra, chop one and to come. The good part so long thankgodness still is that there are not enough spamwriters to write the exact spam fitting your auction yet. I underline yet. Guess as I am speaking someone hacks a code for it…
I just got one today stating that my item is perfect for the needs of their school. The item isn’t mentioned. I forwarded (Is that a word?) it to spoof@ebay.com and let them tell me it was a phish email, which they did. I also checked (through a separate Window) Ebay to see if I had a message in My Messages, and it wasn’t there. So, that was easy enough to figure out.
SPark wrote:It drives me nuts when somebody talks about how “their going to do something” or whatever. Augh. Also, the results when you let the spell check replace everything for you can be really rather funny. You end up saying something you really didn’t mean to say.
Ha ha! I was at work yesterday, and one of the mechanics wrote “Mark is lame” on the computer screensaver, or some such nonsense… So mark decides to pay him back and writes “your gay.” We teased him about it for a long time. “Oh, here is your gay, mark… Oh, is that MY gay or your gay?”
Just a heads up for everybody – yesterday I received a fake PayPal email that DID have my full name on it. My husband said that somewhere along the line, somebody I had a transaction with fell for a similar email. He explained it more thoroughly than that, but you get the idea. Anyway, you should always open a new window to access eBay or PayPal, instead of using a link in an email. The email should also be forwarded (with full headers) to spoof at eBay or PayPal dot com.
Why are you quoting me? I wasn’t talking about Paypal…I haven’t gotten any spoofs from Paypal that I can recall, but Ebay mails will have your name on them, as opposed to your user ID. Everyone you send money to using Paypal will have your name. Such is not the case with Ebay.
there are several spoofs from paypal…and they do list your name…
the best way to tell if it’s fake is every time you go to wwwdotpaypaldotcom …if you use your computer and don’t always remove cookies…your email stays in the sign on spot every time you go to the site…
if it’s a fake email…the site will pop up…but request your email over again…and password…
sad thing is…it’s best to change your passwords on a regular basis….
Sorry Ski – I didn’t mean any harm and I wasn’t trying to say you were wrong or anything. Up until I received that spoof email, I had never received one “from” eBay OR PayPal that had my name on it. I was just trying to help others. I removed the quote.
I wasnt mad or anything. Just wondering, since I was talking about Ebay and you were referring to Paypal. I was just confuuuuused!! 😆
Well I’m glad you weren’t mad. It’s hard to tell just by reading words on a page. In my head the eBay and PayPal spoofs are all lumped together, if that makes sense. I guess that’s why I quoted you.
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