wow i cant spell and so what

burner2009

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

bobblepuzzle

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

*can't :pac:

Well probably because you get annoyed about it so easily.

Micky Dolenz

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

Come again?, having trouble understanding you.


Only joking :P I hate Grammar Nazi's too.

General Zod

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

Yes it does matter. In a text conversation spelling correctly and using proper grammar will make what you have to say far more understandable.

If you're getting sick of it try and improve your spelling and grammar and not rely on others to lower their standards for you.

Snakeblood

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

No one gives out about the punctuation?

Pookah

You did start off using txt-speak in earleir threads, which is annoying for most people, but you seem to be spelling alright now.

If someone picks up on the odd spelling mistake in future and goes on about it, don't let it get to you. It says more about them than it does about you.

burner2009

i know i cant speel but im sick of people giving out about it for **** sake

Elenxor

No, is the answer to your question OP
If people point out your spelling mistakes, it says a lot more about them than
anything else.

...sorry Pookah..did not see your post there!

smurph11

General Zod wrote: »

Yes it does matter. In a text conversation spelling correctly and using proper grammar will make what you have to say far more understandable.

If you're getting sick of it try and improve your spelling and grammar and not rely on others to lower their standards for you.

Try to improve your spelling and grammar...

SugarHigh

There is one poster in particular that the only time I ever see post is when she is correcting grammar.

SuperGrover

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I hate Grammar Nazi's too.

Why did you choose to insert that apostrophe there?

burner2009

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

The problem is that it reaches "can't understand it" very quickly.

Micky Dolenz

burner2009 wrote: »

i know i cant speel but im sick of people giving out about it for **** sake

Report it, it is against the charter, see here.

burner2009

i always get bugged about little tings like if 1 or 2 letter are wrong you can still understand it so whats the problem

TheZohanS

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

As long as you make an effort and don't use "txt spk" I don't think anyone really cares. You'll find that 99% of the time grammar & spelling nazis make mistakes in their own posts too.

Pookah

Outlaw Pete, one of the hardcore posters here, is dyslexic, and uses spell-check whenever he's posting. Perhaps you could try that.

And it wouldn't do any harm to use capital letters at the start of sentences and full stops at the end.

Sometimes you put one sentence after another without a full stop, with no capital letter at the start of the next sentence, and it can make for confusing reading, sometimes.

Micky Dolenz

SuperGrover wrote: »

Why did you choose to insert that apostrophe there?

Good question. Would the fact that I was talking about a particular Grammar Nazi make it ok?

Donkey Oaty

burner2009 wrote: »

i always get bugged

I agree that that's taking it too far and whoever's doing that should stop.

staker

burner2009 wrote: »

i always get bugged about little tings like if 1 or 2 letter are wrong you can still understand it so whats the problem

Imagine if you didn't know your g's from your m's:eek:

_Whimsical_

Try using forums other than AH.

Also use capital letters at the start of sentences. You don't need to be able to spell well to do that. Just flex your little finger over to the left after every full stop and hit shift. It makes a big difference and creates an impression that your post is well writen. People are less likely to immediately get picky and start looking for poor spellings if the body of text at least visually looks like it's written with some adherance to the laws of grammar.

longhalloween

Is it too much to ask for a decent standard of spelling and grammar?

th3 s1aught3r

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

Because some people like to have a go at others. Keyboard warriors, they wouldnt say it to you in person of course, and theres plenty of them here

krudler

Maybe the op has a learning disability? people need to calm the fcuk down, unless its written in unintelligible txt spk then a few missing apostrophes or capital letters aren't going to rape your eyes.

Donkey Oaty

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Good question. Would the fact that I was talking about a particular Grammar Nazi make it ok?

If you are using Grammar Nazi as a proper name - that is the individual's user name - and "too" refers to the acronym for "Targets of Opportunity", which you are putting in lower case to be ironic, then yes, the possessive "s" in "Nazi's" is in keeping with Grammar Nazi principles.

burner2009

krudler wrote: »

Maybe the op has a learning disability? people need to calm the fcuk down, unless its written in unintelligible txt spk then a few missing apostrophes or capital letters aren't going to rape your eyes.

thanks this is what i mean every form i post i get this

_Whimsical_

krudler wrote: »

Maybe the op has a learning disability? people need to calm the fcuk down, unless its written in unintelligible txt spk then a few missing apostrophes or capital letters aren't going to rape your eyes.

To be honest I agree for the most part, I don't really care about spellings all that much as long as I can read something. Lack of capital letters does advertise "poor spellings within" in a post though. The OP would get away with more if he threw a few capital letters in and it's easy to do even if you have a learning difficulty.

Micky Dolenz

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

If you are using Grammar Nazi as a proper name - that is the individual's user name - and "too" refers to the acronym for "Targets of Opportunity", which you are putting in lower case to be ironic, then yes, the possessive "s" in "Nazi's" is in keeping with Grammar Nazi principles.

I see what you've done there :pac:

giant_midget

burner2009 wrote: »

i know i cant speel but im sick of people giving out about it for **** sake

it's Spell not speel :pac:

Princess Peach

Just use google chrome. It corrects your spelling for you and prevents people like me from being annoyed at bad spellers

krudler

Princess Peach wrote: »

Just use Google chrome. It corrects your spelling for you and prevents people like me from being annoyed at bad spellers

Annoying isn't it? :pac:

SugarHigh

longhalloween wrote: »

Is it too much to ask for a decent standard of spelling and grammar?

Some people have a legitimate reason for not being good at spelling and spell-checkers are not perfect.

Angron

It's the internet, there is always people poking fun at/straight out insulting someone for something, spelling is just a more common one.

krudler

I wonder how many people have spell checked every post they have in this thread, just to make sure :pac:

SugarHigh

Princess Peach wrote: »

Just use google chrome. It corrects your spelling for you and prevents people like me from being annoyed at bad spellers

Spell-checkers will often cause a dyslexic to replace a badly spelled word with a correctly spelled word of completely different meaning.

General Zod

smurph11 wrote: »

Try to improve your spelling and grammar...

Thanks, I always make that mistake

krudler

Grammar, the difference between:

"Let's eat, grandma!"

and

"Let's eat grandma!"

and helping your uncle Jack off a horse, or just plain helping your uncle jack off a horse.

00112984

burner2009 wrote: »

thanks this is what i mean every form i post i get this

In a lot of cases, I think it's sheer laziness. We all make mistakes. I'd consider myself to be a pretty good speller but I definitely make mistakes- typos occur too. However, not spelling every word perfectly is one thing but why can't people read over what they've typed and check if it sounds right or not? If this wasn't the internet would you honestly speak like this? Say it out loud, it just sounds strange. There's no commas in your sentence so it just runs on which doesn't sound natural. If you were speaking, you wouldn't say "forms" for "forums" (though technically you should say fora but that's a different moment of pedanticism).

Is it really that hard just to double-check when you know it's an issue you have? I'm hopeless at filling out forms because I tend to skim-read and get confused by the little boxes but I take care to check back over what I'm doing just to make sure I've done it as well as I can. It only takes a moment. Maybe if you did take the opportunity to check back over your spelling and syntax, you'd catch your mistakes before making them and not have to worry so much about it? It's obviously something you're self-conscious about and you would probably find that your confidence around writing/typing would improve if you got to a stage where it was something that didn't attract criticism.

bonerm

burner2009 wrote: »

why do people on this always give out about my spelling
does it really matter how its spelled once people can understand it and i get my message across im getting really ****ing sick of it

Nobody is expecting 100% accuracy. But even little things like capital letters and fullstops would be nice. You know where they go, right?

Owen

I think a text speak forum should be setup. That way, those who want to use that medium for communication can chat away to their hearts' content. The end result of which is that they'll spend so long decyphering each others' conversations, that they will learn to speak and type correctly. kthksbai!!xx

Gunsfortoys

Some posters in AH would make you lose faith in humanity. The best thing to do is use spell checker or get google chrome as someone highlighted.

TouchingVirus

So basically the OP gets píssed off when some members on boards point out their bad spelling or poor grammar, but doesn't make allowances for the fact their lack of punctuation, bad grammer and spelling annoys other people on boards.

Either take it on the chin OP, or try to improve yourself - why settle for bad spelling/grammar?

Also the "it says more about them than you" brigade are laughable, just because you have no issue with it doesn't mean it's not an issue.

Also, Firefox has dictionaries and can spellcheck too so Chrome isn't the only browser out there with that feature

burner2009

PaintDoctor wrote: »

I think a text speak forum should be setup. That way, those who want to use that medium for communication can chat away to their hearts' content. The end result of which is that they'll spend so long decyphering each others' conversations, that they will learn to speak and type correctly. kthksbai!!xx

i agree with this now everyone go **** off and leave me alone :mad:

longhalloween

burner2009 wrote: »

Thanks. This is what I mean. Every forum I post in, I get this.

Fixed for you. 12 mistakes in 13 words.

Micky Dolenz

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Also the "it says more about them than you" brigade are laughable, just because you have no issue with it doesn't mean it's not an issue.

Yes, but some people just point it out to be mean.

SugarHigh

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Some posters in AH would make you lose faith in humanity. The best thing to do is use spell checker or get google chrome as someone highlighted.

Bad spelling makes you lose faith in humanity?

Einstein suffered from dyslexia. He is a clear example of a person who would be labeled as learning disabled in today's educational system. With the right approach to education, these labels cannot prevent great accomplishments, as proven by Einstein and others.

http://www.einsteinmontessori.com/ems.php?category=about_albert_einstein

Canis Lupus

Typos and incorrect grammar I can live with but having the spelling ability of a toddler without a medical excuse (or being a non native English speaker) is shameful imo.

_feedback_

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Some posters in AH would make you lose faith in humanity. The best thing to do is use spell checker or get google chrome as someone highlighted.

I make the effort to post in a way that is easily understood to fellow posters. Why should this guy be any different?

There are plenty of tools on the internet to help. It's in the nature of the forum to take the piss out of people. If he can't be bothered tidying up his post a bit, he is leaving himself open to it.

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Yes, but some people just point it out to be mean.

I don't think I've ever come across posts, apart from in bad grammar/spelling threads where somebody pointed out a mistake just to be an asshole. Maybe it's the forums I frequent or the threads I read

I do agree that if you're doing it not to help out the poster but to be mean then you need a bit of cop on

Canis Lupus

elviscostello wrote: »

There's plenty of tools on the internet

*chuckles quietly to himself*

Micky Dolenz

burner2009 wrote: »

i agree with this now everyone go **** off and leave me alone :mad:

You come on here complaining about people being mean to you but then you are mean to the people.