Spooling Problims?

joejoem

Personally, I am a terrible speller. No matter how hard I try to remember, I still find myself stuck spelling certain words. Of course our generation are getting worse with the likes of predictive text and spell check.

There are some words that I find it impossible to spell like "Restaurant"

Am I alone? What is the break down of good v's evil spellers?

Steve_o

My speeling is the bestest thb....

Black Swan

misspelled

Naos

Predictive text will be the end of it all, and in the same vein, kids using calculators in school will be result in the inability to make quick and simple calculations.

Curlypinkie

Theory a.
People don't read books anymore and just sit chatting on the tinternet, thus being influenced by other people's bad spelling????

Theory b.
The cane wasn't used with as much fervor as it was supposed to in English classes?

Theory c.
Yore ma

Energizeer

I has spell checker build into me web bowser

Wazdakka

Energizeer wrote: »

I has spell checker build into me web bowser

I constantly Mispell words so badly that the spellchecker still has no idea what I'm trying to write

Sherifu

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Ishmael

Sherifu wrote: »

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Yse!

A_M101

Hmm, I've always been a decent reader and don't use predictive text yet my spelling is atrotious atroci attro awful.

Doing mechanical engineering in college though and my class cannot spell to save their lives...I'm considered quite talented by their standards! We like numbers.

SuperGrover

I have seen some atrocious spelling (as opposed to just typos) on boards.ie, for example.

I believe that it may be down to the fact that people don't read enough. Bad spelling jumps out at me. I don't go looking for it. I think it may be down to reading. If you see a word spelt correctly a dozen times, an incorrect example leaps out at you.

Also, there are some spelling errors that get repeated over and over. Is this down to people learning incorrectly from other forum contributors?

A_M101

SuperGrover wrote: »

I believe that it may be down to the fact that people don't read enough. Bad spelling jumps out at me. I don't go looking for it. I think it may be down to reading. If you see a word spelt correctly a dozen times, an incorrect example leaps out at you.

I don't think it is. As a child I would read for days on end, book after book. I am still almost never without something to read and yet my spelling is just horrible!

SuperGrover

A_M101 wrote: »

I don't think it is. As a child I would read for days on end, book after book. I am still almost never without something to read and yet my spelling is just horrible!

Well, that's fair enough. Maybe it's just a natural thing, then.

Whyner

Sherifu wrote: »

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Accommodation is especially a tricky one!

dreamr

I'm dyslexic, so i'm a natural hopeless case, but i got over my spelling by just learning off words. accommodation, restaurant, chrysantium and other big words i just kept writing out until they stuck!

so i believe it just people being lazy, and not reading!

dreamr

Whyner wrote: »

Accommodation is especially a tricky one!

haha, i was writing my post, i hadn't even read this!! but i agree, they're hard!!

NotMe

Have you tried turning your printer off and on again?

MOH

joejoem wrote: »

There are some words that I find it impossible to spell like "Restaurant"

Well, obviously not impossible.

Have to admit, I'm a bit of a spelling Nazi. Think it comes from reading a lot, mistakes just jump out at me, actually makes it harder to read whatever it is.

I'm not immune to typos though!

Sherifu

Whyner wrote: »

Accommodation is especially a tricky one!

SVdP.

Flojo

Im dyslexic but always make an effort to have words spelled properly.
If I'm unsure of a word I type it into google = sorted.
I can't stand people who put no effort into their posting.
Lazy sods

insinkerator

I think reading books has a lot to do with spelling, i remember in my english class our wnnglish teacher to spell words like inept to the class. Yes, this was a 6th year honours English class. Ridiculous!

FlutterinBantam

Energizeer wrote: »

I has spell checker build into me web bowser

Learn how to use it horse!!

Dave147

I am ridiculous for spelling, I simply don't make spelling mistakes! I remember when I was in school people used give me words to spell, the harder the better and they were always disappointed when I spelled it correctly. I remember one will stand out, methylcyclopentadiethyl manganese tricarbonyl, I didn't find this particularly difficult as it's just different broken up 'chemistry' words. Ahhhh good times! (I didn't do chemistry...)

Naos

Naos wrote: »

Predictive text will be the end of it all, and in the same vein, kids using calculators in school will be result in the inability to make quick and simple calculations.

You need to know how to spell to be able to successfully use predictive texting, it don't work if you misspell the start of a word.

I never had any problems with spelling. Typos yes but spelling no.

But yes I've noticed a serious drop in spelling (and grammar) standards over the last few years. Don't know how many times I've seen people spell "lose" as "loose."

<experiment>
i nvr had ne probs wit spellin
</experiment>

That took me longer to write than doing it the normal way. I don't know how some people do it, or why for that matter.

jackbutler

as a child i was a wiz at spelling, i was one of those people that i just repeated the word over and over again in my head, looking for the right combination of letters.
thats how i can spell onomatopoeia so easily. (no spell check there )

but as i became a teenager i became less sharp with my words, spellings are still simple, but now at 15, i find myself never knowing which word i want to say, and forgetting names more than several times a day.
it must be my old age!

Rhonda9000

Inability to use they're / there / their correctly is quite annoying. It's pretty simple really - I think grammar and spelling just isn't taught the same way at schools anymore. Bin the laptops and go back to dictionaries

InFront

I'm good at spelling, but not through effort so I sometimes find it irritating when people get anal about it. Some people find it easier than others and it isn't a big deal so long as you understand what is being communicated.

My brother is dyslexic and I find his emails hilarious, and his texts are even worse. Imagine a dyslexic guy... speaking in txt spk ("ttx kps"!) in Urdu on your mobile phone lol.

Anyway, I don't think a big issue should be made of spellings, at least not in an informal setting such as this site, or friendly emails.

MagicMarker

I'm a decent speller myself.

Since switching over to Safari i am blessed with a spell check even when i reply to threads, so it's very handy.

But when i'm in the swing of things i seem to always mix up ''your'' and ''you're'' without noticing until a later stage when i read over the post. Obviously safari doesn't pick up on it as it's technically not spelled wrong.

*disclaimer: this post was posted using internet explorer and therefore spelling cannot be garronteeeead*