This was always what irked me most about GC2, my favorite game.  They could hire one reasonably good proofreader/English major for a week to scan the entirety of the textual content to fix all of the numerous typos/misspellings/grammatical offenses. 

Although given the way things are going on this planet, it may not be too farfetched to assume that in the future, where GC2 takes place, nobody can spell anymore anyway.

I take that as a no

The "classic" smilies are still there, you just have to click over to the second page. I have no idea how you might get them with just keyboard strings like the old colon-dash-close parenthesis.

Re the typing box spell-checking, y'all just made me pay attention. The site was broken for Opera a while ago, and now I realize that several months ago I was used to seeing spell-check in Firefox text boxes like this, but they seem to be gone now. Was the change to FF or are the Stardock forums somehow ducking that functionality with the latest edit boxes?

Re spelling in general, Phoig, it is *always* much harder to check your own stuff. Your stupid brain does "corrections" that never make it to your fingers, so your only hope is getting a draft done early enough to put it down for a good while before you proof it. I went to a writing-intensive college where we actually had a *math* professor who put his manuscripts in a drawer for a *year* before he edited them.

Yar! (Bit late with the pirate talk.) No, Stardock hasn't contacted me about the edited copy. Oh, well, at least I can still implement my corrections and not cringe whenever someone talks about a "big ball of steal."    

I like the idea of salting away a paper for a year. (hoping for a less creepy smiley... let's see... hmmm...    sokay, found 'em.) Not very practical when having to submit research papers. Fortunately my wife has a good eye for that sort of stuff, so my school papers didn't look they should have been written in crayon. A further frustration for me is my penchant for obscure words (sesquipedalian is what I think my wife dug out of God only knows where for some of the words I've been known to use.) I just love all the crazy stuff English has. Spelling it can be a nightmare (I won't bore any without exactly how long it took me to find the correct spelling of sesquipedalian just now...) On a widely divergent tangent, one of my "favorite" books (favorite being used in a context that defies sanity) is "In Yana: The Undying." You want to hurt your head, read that. About 10 pages into it, I had already had to resort to my unabridged dictionary close to a dozen times and there were two words that weren't even in there! When all was said and done, beyond the thoroughly surreal milieu of the story, I had a list of close to 50 words I didn't know and eight of them defied easy definitions. Strabismusical (or something like - I'd have to look back at the list) was the absolute worst of them all and I'm pretty sure the author coined that one, although I did find one online source that referred to it (a British medical dictionary that sadly seems to have expired.) What's absolutely frightening about this whole tale, is that not only do I not ever remember buying this book, but I have now somehow become the proud owner of two copies! I pray that they're not quietly reproducing in my bookcase...