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wow i cant spell and so what
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If you want someone to read a post, it's a good idea to put in a little bit of effort. Spelling is not as important as structure, grammer* and punctuation. For example, there is an Irish modified car website that I frequent and honestly 90% of the posters there cannot string two words together in any coherent fashion with the result that I may as well be reading it in Sanskrit. Just because you can understand the sentence you just wrote doesn't mean anyone else can. The whole point of internet forums is communication after all.
* obligatory spelling mistake in post giving out about other peoples level of English
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Donkey Oaty wrote: »That's a bit presumptuous of you, Shen.
Well, what would you advise?
Replying "Sorry, I've no idea what you just said because I can make neither heads nor tails of your spelling"?
Best to keep quiet, I find....
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Ireland is supposed to have a good education system yet we have a massive amount of people who can't spell the most basic of words.
It's down to two thing - the education system is not all it's cracked up to be or people are just simply lazy.
I'm going to go with the latter, and it bugs the hell out of me. Typos are an occupational hazard but the complete mispelling of words, as well as not knowing the the difference between 'to', 'two' and 'too' or 'loose' and 'lose' is bloody annoying.
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Ireland is supposed to have a good education system yet we have a massive amount of people who can't spell the most basic of words.
It's down to two thing - the education system is not all it's cracked up to be or people are just simply lazy.
I'm going to go with the latter, and it bugs the hell out of me. Typos are an occupational hazard but the complete mispelling of words, as well as not knowing the the difference between 'to', 'two' and 'too' or 'loose' and 'lose' is bloody annoying.
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It bugs me too - I'm extremely anal about spelling and grammar - BUT I make allowances for the fact that there are people with dyslexia and learning difficulties who struggle with words. It's something that comes very naturally to some people and not so much with others.
Txt spk though...that's just pure annoying :mad:0 -
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Well, what would you advise?
Replying "Sorry, I've no idea what you just said because I can make neither heads nor tails of your spelling"?
Best to keep quiet, I find....
My advice is not to assume that those posters never have anything worthwhile to say, because that's not true.
Although with some of them it is indeed difficult to tell, I'll give you that.0 -
You know the OP has clearly said this upsets him. I think people that are willing to upset someone just to be correct on a public forum are just pathetic. I mean personally as long as it's legible I really couldn't give a toss if it's spelt correctly or using correct grammer. We're aware of dyslexia etc but some forms of it aren't as clear cut as we would think. By jumping down the troats of bad spellers and making them feel like crap, are we not just guilty of bullying? Is someone's input not as valid as the next persons if they don't have good grammer/spelling skills? Is boards.ie not a forum of equals? Why should someone feel excluded or that they can't participate over something as silly as spelling and grammer. I like AH very much but I find it really off putting that people are so willing to gang up on someone and continue doing something that they've expressly said upsets them. Just saying
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tl:dr: Why can't people stop being mean?0 -
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Sign up to the Grammar Nazi squad today, you too can rid the world of the filth that cannot spell correctly or produce a competent sentence even when most of the web browsers these days have built in spell check programs.
Together we can make our final solution* a reality! :pac:
*Final Solution is in no way related to Hitler's final solution and any resemblance here or in any further mentions of such are purely coincidental.
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ibarelycare wrote: »Where's the irony?
Backseat Modding is also against the forum charter. Since you're being so Pernickety.:p0 -
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Sign up to the Grammar Nazi squad today, you too can rid the world of the filth that cannot spell correctly or produce a competent sentence even when most of the web browsers these days have built in spell check programs.
Together we can make our final solution* a reality! :pac:
*Final Solution is in no way related to Hitlers final solution and any resemblance here or in any further mentions of such are purely coincidental.
This post has been spell checked by Firefox Built in English Dictionary (American).
Proper grammar nazis don't hold with those American dictionaries.:P0 -
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I find the ironing delicious that there's so many grammar Nazis on a site thats heading is "Now ye're talkin' ".That must really grind your gears every time you log on.
Why? The grammar's fine, the words are simply shortened with the correct use of the apostrophe.
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