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    Posted: 16 May 2004 at 8:33am
According to an anonymous review on ASPin.com, Web Wiz Forums is 'Littered with typos and grammatical errors', to try and clean any typos and grammatical up please report any here.

Please note that the forums default language is UK English using 'ise' instead of the US 'ize' and 'colour' not the US 'color', so please don't report these types of things as typos.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote michael Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2004 at 11:59am

Well I just went through and posted some that are wrong but some that just sound akward, and you should maybe consider re-phrasing. I don't guarantee that all is right here but did my best

Help file

 

             *smileys should be smilies

             *Usergroups should be User Groups (you can argue about that though)

             *abbreviation 'for example/that is' eg. should be e.g.

Private Messenger

             *'From your Private Messenger you can send and receive Private Messages between yourself and other forum members, knowing that your messages won't be viewed by other forum members.'

                           Sorry but the whole sentence sounds weird. Try something like

               With this Private Messenger you can send and receive Messages to other Forum Members. Messages you send will be viewable only by your recipients.

             *Private Messages Overview: Every sentence starts with 'This is' try to change that a little.

             *Example:

                           You have 12 Private Messages, you can receive another 28 out of 40 (delete the out of 40 part or rephrase)

             *Messages remain in your Outbox until the recipient deletes the message.

                           Messages remain in your Outbox until the recipient has deleted the message.

Settings

             *Make changes to the information on yourself held in your forum profile

                           Make changes to the information collected by this forum about you.

Edit Profile

             *Indicates required fields

                           Indicates a required field

             *Hide your email address if you want it kept private from other users

                           Hide your email address if you want it to be kept private from other users

             *Sends an email when someone replies to a topic you have posted in. This can be changed whenever you post.

                           .......whenever you make a post.

 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dpyers Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2004 at 2:06pm

The recommentation
"Make changes to the information collected by this forum about you"
sounds spammy, maybe something like..

"Make changes to personal information you have given."

I think the Outbox message, and the Edit profile messages are different from common American sentence structure, but are still well formed and probably conform to common English sentence structure.


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Many thanks' I'll look into making the changes.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dpyers Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2004 at 3:24pm

Checked the Merriam-Webster site. Could find smiley, but not smileys, smilie or smilies. The example for the singilar adjective smiley was "A smiley face". No plural or noun form, so neither smilies nor smileys is probably "proper". Either would be acceptable. Personally, I prefer smileys.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote michael Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2004 at 7:21pm
Well I was not sure with smilies so I actually put it in word using the UK Proofing Tools and it corrected smileys to smilies. You can also use Emoticons to get around that alltogether. LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Wendy B Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 May 2004 at 9:23pm

First, English is a particularly dynamic language. It changes as we breathe, use it and debate it.

None of the above are what by any stretch of imagination might be condemned as 'typos and grammatical errors'. Personally, I find your existing phrasings more euphonious and graceful than any proposed replacement, but the replacements are not 'wrong', either.

I did a search for certain common errors: its/it's and your/you're and you're not guilty of either, except in a one or two spots in comments lines in the scripts files, in places where no user would ever see them.

The only public error I can find is line 39 of the license: "it's associates" should be "its associates".

If it is "log back in" it is probably still "log in" and "log out", although you can see it morphing all around us toward the compact form, with log-in and log-out appearing widely but I don't think it is login and logout yet. Same phenomenon: I think it's now "unlocked", not "un-locked" anymore, but I have a ton of software from shareware and commercial sources, and I can't think of any that comes as close as yours does to good language usage.

I looked at the anonymous "review". You flatter that post by calling it a "review". I'd call it an ignorant insult. Why don't you spend more time enjoying the fact that all the rest of the reviews appreciate WWF correctly. Here's my fav:

"The best web tools i have ever found.    
Written by Anonymous User (#1307-49) from Costa Rica   (Sunday, July 20, 2003)

Strengths:   Free Stuff, Excellent tools and really easy to implement  
Weaknesses:   No one.  
Details:   I have some of his tools and i can really say they are easy to implement and the most advanced i have seen; and... just try them, this guy is a genius.
Review Based On:   1 Month(s) of usage  
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WebWiz-Bruce Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 May 2004 at 7:26am
Thanks Wendy B

After reading the post I thought I had better check my grammer and spelling in the forum as I know how bad it can be, and something like grammer and spelling can be changed so easily.
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