wow i cant spell and so what

Gunsfortoys

Squiggle wrote: »

No. The only reason I pointed out your spelling mistakes was to highlight the hypocrisy of you pointing out the mistakes of other posters. Order than in the context I've just described there is no way I would pull people up on grammatical or spelling mistakes because I do it myself at times so it would be hypocritical .

Tut tut. *ducks*

Canis Lupus

nuxxx wrote: »

I hope you crank up some nice thanks for pointing out my slight mistake

So do I but I was only poking fun

Hank Scorpio

senordingdong wrote: »

Ok, so unless you know the person or are getting paid for it, you should never try to correct anything?

I just don't understand why it should bother you so much, I really don't.

Small tiny mistakes happen all the time, if someone wrote a post in complete caps/text speak/continuous lines well obviously it should be pointed out, but for the sake of there instead of their, I mean common:(

Its so insignificant. Now on the other hand if I saw someone robbing my car I would try to "correct" that by stopping him??

evercloserunion

evercloserunion wrote: »

But the spelling is grand and the syntax is perfectly understandable.

There's a difference between asking people to put a little bit of thought into typing what they want others to read, and being a pedantic little git. Guess what category your post falls into.

People in glass houses, no?

My post is actually in defence of loose grammar. Language isn't stunted or fixed. The moment it becomes so it dies and loses what makes it vibrant. Mistakes become copied and enter the popular lexicon, thus developing our language further.

I actually hear people use abbreviations like "lol" as words now. That's a beautiful shift in the English language. In essence my point is that people being anal about grammar are actually less helpful to the language than people who don't care.

CrazyRabbit

senordingdong wrote: »

Dyslexia isn't an excuse.

If you were bothered you could look up correct spellings, or even use spell check.

You're just not bothered, even though you are being judged for it.

Haters gonna hate.

With dyslexia, you can read a word 50 times and it looks fine. On the 51st read, you spot the error. Your brain tells you the word is correct, even though it isn't, and you do actually know how to spell it. That's dyslexia.

Dictionaries only help when you know a word is spelt wrong and want to know how to spell it correctly.

I rely on spell checkers to let me know where there is potentially a mistake. And there are some techniques for reading words which help flag words I might have misspelled (even though they 'look' fine).

curlzy

Have to wonder did the OP put this thread up for a laugh? I mean all the people saying "burn the bad spellers" are obviously keyboard warriers who, if they're the same in real life, have very few friends. I think this thread really shows up the judgemental f*cks for what they are; pathetic. I mean if grammer and spelling are the things you feel superior about, well then.... bless you and your little cotton socks. Just saying

Squiggle

Squiggle wrote: »

No. The only reason I pointed out your spelling mistakes was to highlight the hypocrisy of you pointing out the mistakes of other posters. Order than in the context I've just described there is no way I would pull people up on grammatical or spelling mistakes because I do it myself at times so it would be hypocritical .

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Tut tut. *ducks*

QED.

Hank Scorpio

curlzy wrote: »

Have to wonder did the OP put this thread up for a laugh? I mean all the people saying "burn the bad spellers" are obviously keyboard warriers who, if they're the same in real life, have very few friends. I think this thread really shows up the judgemental f*cks for what they are; pathetic. I mean if grammer and spelling are the things you feel superior about, well then.... bless you and your little cotton socks. Just saying

Nail on head for me

shinikins

senordingdong wrote: »

Personally, I don't.
But I'm not and expert and can only go on what I know.
I know lots of 'dyslexic' people.
One goes to a little extra effort to make sure her spellings etc.. are as correct as can be.

The rest just continue to mis-spell etc.. and shrug their shoulders while saying; 'I'm dyslexic'.

Wow. Just wow. I agree with Nuxxx, you have a really bad attitude. have a read of this http://www.dyslexia.ie/dysexp.htm dyslexia explained. You might form a better opinion. From Wikipedia " Although dyslexia is not an intellectual disability, it is considered both a learning disability and a reading disability."

senordingdong wrote: »

Why is it petty?
Do you think a teacher correcting a student is petty?

Sure, it'd be easier to just to leave the children alone.
They can't spell very well.
But **** it, it'd be petty to correct them.

I fail to see your logic here, teachers are paid to teach, and part of the learning process is correction. You can't correct dyslexia out of someone who suffers it. Its like having blue eyes, they are yours for the rest of your life and you can't change them. So it is petty to correct someone else's spelling mistakes, especially when they have already apologised for them, and are obvioulsy trying to improve their spelling. All you are doing by "pointing out" their errors is making them feel even worse about their shortcomings while you feel superior.

sensibleken

orourkeda wrote: »

Language changes and develops over time. So does everything else. It's usually a gradual development though.

Poor grammar or spelling shouldn't be just accepted. Two wrongs don't make a right.

What are the two wrongs?

This isn't biological evolution. At some stage 'warre' became 'war' perhaps it was one 'error' or several small 'errors'. But which one is correct and why?

The pace of development is not important, surely if warre was once the correct spelling then any deviation for that is incorrect

nuxxx

nuxxx wrote: »

I just don't understand why it should bother you so much, I really don't.

I guess that people don't understand why it bothers me. I don't even give a damn about typos or obvious laziness.
I'm just strange.

FreudianSlippers

I've been banned so I'm jumping in this thread late, but I don't understand how anyone could be proud of their stupidity and not care that they spell like a monkey is just bashing the keyboard?

Dudess

take everything wrote: »

I see what you did there.

Muphry's Law is the name given to the phenomenon.

I am quite precise with my grammar/spelling/punctuation but it comes easily to me - it's something I always got on well at at school, and I'm not everyone else; just like I was sh1t at maths and there were people to whom it came easily.

Very extreme textspeak does bug me, and a big mass of text without any full stops and commas whatsoever is a headache to read, but while some people just couldn't be arsed (and that is annoying when they have the ability) others have a genuine difficulty and I think it's fairer to say nothing in case it's the latter you've pointed it out to.

OutlawPete

Deleted User wrote: »

To any student of grammar and good writing this post is pretty ironic. Obviously we should focus on the more glaring grammatical errors first but criticising a man's grammar and then having 3 conjunctions in one 24 word sentence is somewhat laughable.

Also, it really does say a lot when that post then goes on to get 'post of the day'.

sensibleken

OisinT wrote: »

I've been banned so I'm jumping in this thread late, but I don't understand how anyone could be proud of their stupidity and not care that they spell like a monkey is just bashing the keyboard?

I can't imagine why you were banned

AAAAAAAHHH

Johro wrote: »

Supercalifragilistic Expialidocious. It's would be underlined in red by Spellchecker but I don't care because it's correct.
Antidisestablishmentarianism. Just showing off now:D

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

reeta

burner2009 wrote: »

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

speel ?????

Dublin_Gunner

AAAAAAAHHH wrote: »

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Copycat. Too late. Already been posted by Liah iirc.

FreudianSlippers

sensibleken wrote: »

I can't imagine why you were banned

I called someone a prick

What's banworthy about my post there? lol

sensibleken

OisinT wrote: »

I called someone a prick

What's banworthy about my post there? lol

Nothing at all

Asphyxia

I don't mind too much as long as it's not instant messenger text.

FreudianSlippers

Pocketfizz wrote: »

I don't mind too much as long as it's not instant messenger text.

When I was in university they actually had to say that on the first day. Don't hand in assignments in text speak. I was shocked that they would actually have to say that.

seagull

senordingdong wrote: »

Sometimes you look them up, and sometimes you don't?
Sounds like you're cutting corneres, which is another way of saying you're lazy.

Tell me, if you weren't sure how to spell a word, and then you looked it up, does that not mean you now know how to spell that word?
Mission accomplished in my opinion.

senordingdong wrote: »

Personally, I don't.
But I'm not and expert and can only go on what I know.
I know lots of 'dyslexic' people.
One goes to a little extra effort to make sure her spellings etc.. are as correct as can be.

The rest just continue to mis-spell etc.. and shrug their shoulders while saying; 'I'm dyslexic'.

Oops! Are these spelling mistakes, or just typos?

The Rook

Dudess wrote: »

Muphry's Law is the name given to the phenomenon.

I am quite precise with my grammar/spelling/punctuation but it comes easily to me - it's something I always got on well at at school, and I'm not everyone else; just like I was sh1t at maths and there were people to whom it came easily.

Very extreme textspeak does bug me, and a big mass of text without any full stops and commas whatsoever is a headache to read, but while some people just couldn't be arsed (and that is annoying when they have the ability) others have a genuine difficulty and I think it's fairer to say nothing in case it's the latter you've pointed it out to.

I'm not familiar with "Muphry's Law" ... now "Murphy's Law" on the other hand....

seagull

The Rook wrote: »

I'm not familiar with "Muphry's Law" ... now "Murphy's Law" on the other hand....

Muphry's law states that if making a post criticising someone's spelling or grammar, you will inevitably make an error yourself.

ibarelycare

OisinT wrote: »

I've been banned so I'm jumping in this thread late, but I don't understand how anyone could be proud of their stupidity and not care that they spell like a monkey is just bashing the keyboard?

Please tell me you're taking the piss. I know a few posters on here who are dyslexic and they are extremely intelligent people.

The attitude towards dyslexic people in this thread is disgusting. Laziness? Stupidity? Not recognising it as an actual disability?

Pure ignorance.

ibarelycare

ibarelycare wrote: »

Please tell me you're taking the piss. I know a few posters on here who are dyslexic and they are extremely intelligent people.

The attitude towards dyslexic people in this thread is disgusting. Laziness? Stupidity? Not recognising it as an actual disability?

Pure ignorance.

Are they just targeted at dyslexic people? OisinT didn't quote anyone and it was a general post, so I'm confused
Dyslexics don't necessarily have bad spelling in posts, and people with bad spelling aren't necessarily dyslexic, not by a long shot. Bit unfair to confuse the two...

ibarelycare

bluewolf wrote: »

Are they just targeted at dyslexic people? OisinT didn't quote anyone and it was a general post, so I'm confused
Dyslexics don't necessarily have bad spelling in posts, and people with bad spelling aren't necessarily dyslexic, not by a long shot. Bit unfair to confuse the two...

I'm talking about the posts that are targeted towards dyslexic people, such as senordingdong's.

OisinT's post said "anyone" so I presumed he included dyslexic people in those he accused of being "proud" of their stupidity and not caring about their spelling.

Dudess

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

No, doesn't matter in the slightest.

Same as it doesn't matter if people drive on the left or the right hand side of the road;)

You see ,lazy fcukers, who don't give a fuck about contributing to anything,who know all their rights, but none of their responsibilities, usually use this argument.

What they tend to forget is that society judges them by the way they judge soicety.

Some sloppy enough errors there - as tends to be the case with your posts pontificating about poor writing. And again, this is just pointing out the hypocrisy.

ibarelycare

ibarelycare wrote: »

I'm talking about the posts that are targeted towards dyslexic people, such as senordingdong's.

OisinT's post said "anyone" so I presumed he included dyslexic people in those he accused of being "proud" of their stupidity and not caring about their spelling.

He didn't say dyslexic people, he said stupid people.
That's a bit of a tenuous link to go off on a rant about dyslexic people, especially as many dyslexic people have excellent quality posts. Or perhaps you are implying that dyslexic people are stupid?

I agree some posts regarding dyslexia have been in poor taste but Oisin's was certainly not one of them.

ibarelycare

bluewolf wrote: »

He didn't say dyslexic people, he said stupid people.
That's a bit of a tenuous link to go off on a rant about dyslexic people, especially as many dyslexic people have excellent quality posts. Or perhaps you are implying that dyslexic people are stupid?

I agree some posts regarding dyslexia have been in poor taste but Oisin's was certainly not one of them.

This thread is about people with bad spelling. I took from his post that he was talking about "ANYONE" who couldn't spell very well, therefore not making an exception for people who had a genuine reason for not spelling well (not "stupidity" or laziness ).

Maybe I jumped on his post in a rash manner but I had just scanned through pages of ignorant posts and his was among the ones that annoyed me.

_Whimsical_

OisinT wrote: »

I've been banned so I'm jumping in this thread late, but I don't understand how anyone could be proud of their stupidity and not care that they spell like a monkey is just bashing the keyboard?

Good spelling is not a reflection of intelligence in itself. I think your well spelt post demonstrates that.

Spelling is a reflection of the environment you've grown up in, the access you've had to formal education and how much you have read. None of those things are any measure of basic intelligence, they're indicative of your life chances.

Good verbal reasoning, having a wide vocabularly and the ability to use it to express insightful and complex ideas, is associated with intelligence but it's not about spelling well.

That said I think everyone should aim to spell as well as they can but I would not discount anyone as stupid just for a few wrong spellings.*

sensibleken

Which is correct

'colour' or 'color'

Pace2008

sensibleken wrote: »

Which is correct

'colour' or 'color'

We use British/Hiberno English, so "colour" is more appropriate.

"Color" is used in American English.

Gunsfortoys

I think people can be forgiven for being dyslexic for petes sake....;)

sensibleken

Pace2008 wrote: »

We use British/Hiberno English, so "colour" is more appropriate.

"Color" is used in American English.

Right, but neither is incorrect. They are both appropriate based on usage and both appropriate because we can understand them.

My point is spelling changes over time and usage without being incorrect. If people always gave out about it we'd still be calling each other 'Thou churl'

sensibleken

sensibleken wrote: »

Right, but neither is incorrect. They are both appropriate based on usage and both appropriate because we can understand them.

My point is spelling changes over time and usage without being incorrect. If people always gave out about it we'd still be calling each other 'Thou churl'

Right, but there is a difference between colour vs color and colour/color vs clr. I agree language and spelling change over time but I'm not sure that's a good reason to have "anything goes".

FlutterinBantam

Dudess wrote: »

Some sloppy enough errors there - as tends to be the case with your posts pontificating about poor writing. And again, this is just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Apart from the comma after 'lazy fcukers, what were those honey?

Canis Lupus

sensibleken wrote: »

Right, but neither is incorrect. They are both appropriate based on usage and both appropriate because we can understand them.

My point is spelling changes over time and usage without being incorrect. If people always gave out about it we'd still be calling each other 'Thou churl'

In fairness if you use color on this side of the pond you're likely to be pulled up on it. EDIT: although I do find myself using it alot accidentally due to spell checkers and the influence of the US in our media.

Also, to use the argument that 'words change over time therefore what does it matter' is a piss poor excuse. Am I rite or am I rite?

time42play

My father and brother both have atrocious spelling, and my father's grammar is so horrible as to be grating to listen to. He STILL loves the word "seen" (as in "I seen" something) despite the fact it's always met with an exaggerated eye roll and sharp correction from whichever of us he's speaking to.

A boyfriend once commented that he appreciated my not correcting his spelling. I'm not sure I did him any favours though, because he was passed over at least twice for better jobs as he had such poor written communication skills. (I broke up with him for cheating, but am not sure how much longer I'd have been able to hold out on the spelling!)

An American woman I've never met beyond the internet annoys me so much that I'd love to send someone over to smack her in the head. I have composed many (unsent) tirades about her posts that I just needed to get out before I exploded. It's on a sewing-related forum, and her total confusion of nouns and verbs makes my blood pressure rise every time I see her name. The most egregious are statements like "I'm going to embroidery that dress". No, you are going to EMBROIDER it. I've come very close to sending her a dictionary with most of her offending words marked and a copy of the old 70's Schoolhouse Rock videos relating to nouns and verbs.

So, imperfect Grammar/spelling Nazi that I am, I try to keep my comments to myself as much as I can manage.

I am rather amused by "tink" for "think" and "taught/tought" for "thought", Dublin phonetic spelling at it's finest, LOL!

Pace2008

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Apart from the comma after 'lazy fcukers, what were those honey?

There was one typo and some questionable overuse of paragraphs.

My world continued to turn.

curlzy

time42play wrote: »

My father and brother both have atrocious spelling, and my father's grammar is so horrible as to be grating to listen to. He STILL loves the word "seen" (as in "I seen" something) despite the fact it's always met with an exaggerated eye roll and sharp correction from whichever of us he's speaking to.

A boyfriend once commented that he appreciated my not correcting his spelling. I'm not sure I did him any favours though, because he was passed over at least twice for better jobs as he had such poor written communication skills. (I broke up with him for cheating, but am not sure how much longer I'd have been able to hold out on the spelling!)

An American woman I've never met beyond the internet annoys me so much that I'd love to send someone over to smack her in the head. I have composed many (unsent) tirades about her posts that I just needed to get out before I exploded. It's on a sewing-related forum, and her total confusion of nouns and verbs makes my blood pressure rise every time I see her name. The most egregious are statements like "I'm going to embroidery that dress". No, you uneducated moron, you are going to EMBROIDER it. I've come very close to sending her a dictionary with most of her offending words marked and a copy of the old 70's Schoolhouse Rock videos relating to nouns and verbs.

So, imperfect Grammar/spelling Nazi that I am, I try to keep my comments to myself as much as I can manage.

I am rather amused by "tink" for "think" and "taught/tought" for "thought", Dublin phonetic spelling at it's finest, LOL!

Wow, judgey much?:rolleyes:

time42play

curlzy wrote: »

Wow, judgey much?:rolleyes:

Yes, but quietly and (other than family) only in my head.

sensibleken

bluewolf wrote: »

Right, but there is a difference between colour vs color and colour/color vs clr. I agree language and spelling change over time but I'm not sure that's a good reason to have "anything goes".

The difference is just usage.

For example i was corrected a while ago for using allot instead of a lot. Never noticed i was doing it, or what the difference was. But, one person and one person alone had a real problem with me using it. Everyone else can understand and i see it repeated so often its becoming almost standard.

Some people want to reverse the usage because they say its 'incorrect'

Canis Lupus

sensibleken wrote: »

For example i was corrected a while ago for using allot instead of a lot.

I'm continually guilty of 'alot'. It's one word that continually sneaks in.

sensibleken

Canis Lupus wrote: »

In fairness if you use color on this side of the pond you're likely to be pulled up on it. EDIT: although I do find myself using it alot accidentally due to spell checkers and the influence of the US in our media.

Also, to use the argument that 'words change over time therefore what does it matter' is a piss poor excuse. Am I rite or am I rite?

Why is it piss poor? Do you still spell afterward aftirward or glib as glybbee.

You have also used alot rather than a lot. Showing how the conventions of spelling are already affecting even yourself. Hardly a piss poor excuse but rather just a variation.

sensibleken

sensibleken wrote: »

The difference is just usage.

For example i was corrected a while ago for using allot instead of a lot. Never noticed i was doing it, or what the difference was. But, one person and one person alone had a real problem with me using it. Everyone else can understand and i see it repeated so often its becoming almost standard.

Some people want to reverse the usage because they say its 'incorrect'

Allot is a completely different word
It makes no sense either. You don't write afew or "I had acup of tea"... or to make a similar comparison, "affew" and "accup".

sensibleken

bluewolf wrote: »

Allot is a completely different word
It makes no sense either. You don't write afew or "I had acup of tea"... or to make a similar comparison, "affew" and "accup".

I know its a completely different word. But its context. If i say 'There where allot of people in my house last weekend' you know exactly what i mean and if you know what it means then it makes sense QED. Im the dyslexic one and even i can read that

Words meaning change in context. Say volume to a sound engineer and then to a chemist, theyll hear the same word but gather two very different meanings. The spelling doesnt matter

_feedback_

sensibleken wrote: »

I know its a completely different word. But its context. If i say 'There where allot of people in my house last weekend' you know exactly what i mean and if you know what it means then it makes sense QED. Im the dyslexic one and even i can read that

Words meaning change in context. Say volume to a sound engineer and then to a chemist, theyll hear the same word but gather two very different meanings. The spelling doesnt matter

I understand what you wrote, but why would you use that when you know it is not correct? Fair enough making mistakes, but why substitute a word when you know it is not correct?

thebullkf

sensibleken wrote: »

I know its a completely different word. But its context. If i say 'There where allot of people in my house last weekend' you know exactly what i mean and if you know what it means then it makes sense QED. Im the dyslexic one and even i can read that

Words meaning change in context. Say volume to a sound engineer and then to a chemist, theyll hear the same word but gather two very different meanings. The spelling doesnt matter

i know what you mean.

for instance Benign=what you be after you be eight.:pac: