wow i cant spell and so what

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.

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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.

Jumpy

The Einstein dyslexia thing has not been proven.

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

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

Must. Resist.

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Canis Lupus wrote: »

*chuckles quietly to himself*

That was quick !

Donkey Oaty

I agree with the point SugarHigh's making, but Einstein was not dyslexic according to many scholars.

Canis Lupus

elviscostello wrote: »

That was quick !

That's what my girlfriend says

Micky Dolenz

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Must. Resist.

ah come on, it was followed by an are so it obviously was a typo as opposed to an error in grammar. :P meany

Shenshen

I don't correct people, mostly because English isn't my first language, so who am I to tell them off?

On the other hand, bad spelling makes posts utterly unreadable for me.
So I ignore those posts, assuming they didn't have anything worthwhile to say, otherwise they would have taken the trouble to communicate it in a legible way.

TouchingVirus

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

ah come on, it was followed by an are so it obviously was a typo as opposed to an error in grammar. :P meany

I know, I know :pac:

Donkey Oaty

Shenshen wrote: »

So I ignore those posts, assuming they didn't have anything worthwhile to say, otherwise they would have taken the trouble to communicate it in a legible way.

That's a bit presumptuous of you, Shen.

ibarelycare

Aren't most of the posts in this thread going against the Charter at this stage? :pac: