Poor Spelling!

[ajohn505]

I just had to get this off my chest on the forum somewhere, and the off-topic board seemed the best place to do it.

I'm utterly tired of poor spelling and bad grammar on this board. It's a chore to read when every sentence is chopped up so badly that you can barely understand it. "Whut do I do about the curoption in my citees. Sumbodie pleez help" Shut the f*** up.

Ignorant people: Learn to spell. Read a book once in awhile, and learn sentence structure. There's no better way to say "I'm an ignorant f**k-up who's ideas mean nothing" than to write like a putz.

No offense intended to our members who don't speak English as a first language... that's a completely different issue. It's easy to tell who doesn't speak English well because they're foreign, and who's just ignorant.

 

[animepornstar]

the best way to learn to write better is to write badly.

 

[ajohn505]

Touche

To that, I would say that reading is the best way to learn to write, though.

 

[CornMaster]

yo muts uder stad that no everone o ths bord is englisk.

That was for effect.

Probably half of the people on this board are from different countries....where not all of them has English as the first language. You can excuse these people.

However, I know some English people on this board that don't spend enough time checking spelleing an grammer. (Also for effect. )

But regardless...the opinion or information in the post is of equal value. Although you may have to suffer through reading the post.....you will probably be better off in the end.

 

[Becka]

But it could be WORSE. A lot worse. *tsk tsk*

At least we don't have serial togglers who write LikE THis iN tHIs, LIke, ToTaLY UnReAdaBle wAy! kEwl!

Arrrgghhh! I don't mind a couple of mistakes or slips of the keyboard. That's COMPLETELY understandable, with the real-time nature of the board and all. I'm usually not in the mood to go back and edit and wait for the page to load, just because I missed one letter. But doing it on purpose? Oy vey.

But my greatest spelling/grammer pet peeve is the word "probably". I see is spelled "prolly" alot.

 

[ceebs]

One thing that really gets my goat is spelling and grammer nazis. I have a mild form of dyslexia and as a result when I'm stressed/tired I have a tendancy to write really badly structured and spelt english. The last thing I need is some idiot giving me grief over a word that they think that they spell correctly. I didn't take it well when I was at school and I'm certainly not going to take it now, several years down the line

You have to ask yourself what the perpose of language is, and when it comes down to it I think you'll find it's communication.
If you could work out where I've spelt a word incorrectly then you obviously understood my meaning and so I've achieved my aim. There is no agreement on the correct spelling of words in fact the english language is split about 50/50 between English and American spelling. (and if you are brought up with one scheme of spelling the other looks deeply wrong to you ( when I'm having a good day and spelling makes sense))

 

[Zwelgje]

I think that all the reasons why people don't spell right on this forum have already been discussed by the previous posters:
There are many foreigners here that already have a hard time to express themselves in english let alone to spell everything right.
Then there are people that are just real bad in spelling (because of dyslexia or other causes)
Therefore I suggest that ajohn finds himself a propper hobby instead of complaining about other people's spelling

 

[ajohn505]

Well, I have other hobbies too. And thanks for at least a little backup there, Becka.

I don't mind the foreigners, and I don't mind the dyslexics. Those two groups have perfectly understandable reasons for poor spelling and/or grammar. I agree with ceebs that the reason for language is communication, but I also don't think it's a bad thing to strive for clarity.

 

[TheDuckOfFlanders]

I make a lot of spelling error's in my posts i think.I want to excuse myself for it.Most of the time ,i don't even know i had made a mistake ,as i am not sure of the spelling of every English word i use.
Sometime's ,some people here use such a high number of difficult (to me) English words ,so that i just tottaly don't understand the context of their reply. (Mr. Darkshade for one)

Hey ,give me a break please.I have to learn four language's in my country.That is Dutch ,French ,English and german.
i'm very glad i can speak these language's a bit ,but to know how to write them all fluently ,that's a bit much to me.

Ah ,some people can write English here perfectly.I can verbaly communicate in four language's.Each his own strong point's i guess.

 

[The Balrog]

YoU cOuLd AlSo Go SlAp SoMe FoReIgNeRs.(Hehehe Becka.)

 

[floppa21]

A keyboard that toggled CAPSLOCK everytime you hit the letter "L"... Now that would be fun... Hey, I could care less about the spelling. Everyone makes typos. If it's really bad spelling, well, whatever. Could care less unless I wanna take a poke at someone, and then PROLLY they know that's what I'm doin.

 

[Becka]

Originally posted by SpaceCow
YoU cOuLd AlSo Go SlAp SoMe FoReIgNeRs.(Hehehe Becka.)

*shurg* At least you didn't say "kEwL".

Originally posted by floppa21
A keyboard that toggled CAPSLOCK everytime you hit the letter "L"... Now that would be fun...

Hey, that eventually was fixed!


And I think little errors are perfectly understandable, myself. :crazyeyes I can't think how many times I've been writing something in Spanish and started writing in English again. Besides, I'd think it would be a little harder for people who spoke another language to read posts with a lot of spelling errors. Like when I read things in English that some spelling mistakes, then I'm ok because I've spoken English for most of my life. If I was reading a post in Spanish that had a lot of slang and intentional spelling errors, then I'd be in a bind because I'd think they were using a word I had never learned.

But that's just me.

 

[Ren]

A lot of the time it is a typo that is the culprit...I also don't have a problem with poorly written posts as I consider mysely compenent at English and can usually work out what the person is getting at..

 

[Pedro]

You might consider the mistakes made on boards like this one as ignorant or anoying, especially when someone makes mistakes on purpose. I know I use a lot of phoney language when I chat with friends in dutch. It happens in english too (How R U? LOL! Good 2B back, j/k, the aforementioned Kewl...). You may not like it, but because of these 'mistakes' grammar actually evolves and before you know it today's mistakes are tomorrow's formal language!
Example: don't you American people write harbor, neighbor, color instead of the actual harbour, neighbor, colour!!! So, who made the first mistake? Or was the deletion of the 'u' just an act of laziness?!?

 

[scorch]

oh man...


i was once at a forum when the ****ing teenybopper chicks constantly WrItE LiKe ThIs... or maybe its like this. 'hy ppl, howz r u 2day? im a 15/f/tx n i lik sk8n' ' Jeezus.

 

[Mikoyan]

Heheh! If you don't like that, don't go to the NME chat room!

 

[Simon Darkshade]

"One thing that really gets my goat is spelling and grammer nazis."

SILENCE!!! You vill write when ve tell you to! And 'nazis' should be capitalized, as a pvoper noun! Schultz, take zem all to ze firing squad!!!"


I personally have no problem with bad spelling, as there are so many mitagating circumstances - English as a second language, genuine spelling problems. What I do dislike is what has been raised previously - deliberate indulgence in the most heinous abreviations, contractions and pop culture clap trap. I always try to focus on the content of what is written, rather than its delivery, unless it is so outlandish that it defies comprehension. One must at least advance fellow posters that courtesy.

Ah, my dear Ducky! Sorry about my most verbose and unique academic style, but one does have a responsibility as a custodian of the Queen's English to relay it properly in written and spoken form. I to regret any contrafibularatories or periconbobulations that may have been induced by I, the veritable allegory of disipation and ruin, in the course of my phrasmotic musings. I am most anaspeptic, nay, even compunctious, that my words may have given me the image of Xanthippe.


(As you can see, I spend far too much time reading Wilde, Fry, Curtis and shooting the breeze with philologists. In Volpuk of course)

 

[IceBlaZe]

Oh give me a break..
This whole thread is ridicolous, how can you tell what spelling mistakes are because of dyslexya and what are not?!
How can you tell who are foreigners and who arent? (if its not mentioned in the profile..).
And what sh** does it matter anyway?
The last thing I care about is spelling of other people in these kind of forums...
Forums that:
INCLUDE ALL KINDS OF AGES
INCLUDE ALL KINDS OF NATIONALITIES
INCLUDE ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE GENERALLY

this thread should be ******* closed, its getting low on other peoples disability to spell right, something so shallow in these forums that probably the man that opened this thread was probably very very bored...

 

[floppa21]

Ah! A Wilde fan!

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Indeed, fellow mean old young bastard, "there is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"

But it doesn't compare with "Have you anything to declare?"
"Only my genius"