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• IAC Looks It Up
Paid search is great -- just ask Google -- but if you're stumped on whether "barrel" has one or two Ls, you're just going to look up the appropriate spelling or glance at the definition and move on.
• Lolcats hiring spelling skillz optional
That's the subject line of a cover letter sent by a job applicant to I Can Has Cheezburger, one of the premier sites for so-called Lolcat pictures. Don't think the letter will be rejected out of hand — bad spelling is no obstacle to a job in Lolcat ...
• Facebook asks users to translate for free
The Spanish-language version has taken a particular beating for grammatical, spelling and usage problems throughout. Ana B. Torres, a 25-year-old professional translator in Madrid, Spain, called the translation "extremely poor," citing "outrageous ...

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