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justpurchased wrote: »I am a Senior Manager (on a week off) How rude are you! Part of being dyslexic is finding it hard to express yourself in the written word. My speech is excellent, my wife is so great at written english (PA) but her grasp of spoken english is no where near my level (and she admits it but still picks at my spelling and gramar.)
On this point i rest my case I will constantly be persecuted untill i come round to your way of thinking. Some of you are not as clever as you think you are!
What I have done is to read through this thread and read the posts that you have written that have been abusive to other posters. When challenged you immediately raise your dyslexia and start saying 'poor me' and 'horrid you'.
As for being 'persecuted' until you come round to 'our' way of thinking - HA! If you were a longer term member on here you would know from experience that many people on here disagree with each other. What they don't do is be abusive and rude - then throw their dolly out of the pram because someone picks them up on it!
As for me being rude - my goodness me - talk about the pot calling the kettle black!0 -
moanymoany wrote: »What I have done is to read through this thread and read the posts that you have written that have been abusive to other posters. When challenged you immediately raise your dyslexia and start saying 'poor me' and 'horrid you'.
As for being 'persecuted' until you come round to 'our' way of thinking - HA! If you were a longer term member on here you would know from experience that many people on here disagree with each other. What they don't do is be abusive and rude - then throw their dolly out of the pram because someone picks them up on it!
As for me being rude - my goodness me - talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Give it up mate, I only argued/rude back when people started the same (I am trying to prove how posts go. Nothing to do with a topic, someone as thier view and are set on by a few housepricecrash types), so give it a rest.
Sorry a lot of people are are rude they just don't like to admit it, like your good self. I wont lie i did it for a reaction. Were you are doing it for what reason?
Please read http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1121423
You might learn somthing about yourself.
PS as for the "poor me horrid you" sorry I won't rise to that as i never did it. I just had someone having a go at my written english and i explained my problem! Do you realy have a problem with that.0 -
It's not really the spelling that is the problem. It's the way you come across on here..
Mewbie I have noticed you'd toned it down (and I was one of those who appreciated your edit of a post yesterday:o ).
re spelling and grammar, I am not dyslexic but struggle for other reasons. I am aware that sometimes this makes my posts frustrating to read and difficult to understand. Occasionally I've been pulled up about it and I do go back and edit when I see how bad they really are (my abilties blow with the wind, what I can't see to correct on a preview I might see two seconds later on the posted page). I accept that my lapses in coherance mean my poin is often lost or difficult to understand and liable to be misinterpreted. When that happens I do not rant at others, merely correct as best I can. I have found noone to be rude about this (in fact, someone once did pull me up rather abrubtly, but fairly, and I had a lot of nice comments when I explained why it was so sloppy and inconsistant). I used to be one of those who had little patience with poor grammar and spelling but now I'm just grateful if I'm 90% understandable. I see no point in getting in a stew about other's failings in this respect, but I do think when they are not understood due to their own failures with language to rant at others is a little, well, peculiar.
FWIW I DID read and answer the other thread, apparently incorrectly, but there you go.....I do NOT just read titles, and often wish I could master the multiple quote thingey to aid response.0 -
I agree, but the party did understand me, i just wish people would be honest and say look stop arging you to rarther than pinning it on one party.It is interesting to hear from the less informed people though, quote]
Would classing some one as less informed when you do not know or actualy want to know anything about them class as rude or at least inflatory! Anyway to tell you the truth perhaps it was a bit mis-directed at mewbie so i would oppologise for that but i lost count how many times i was called and idiot, stupid, less informed etc.0 -
justpurchased wrote: »I agree, but the party did understand me, i just wish people would be honest and say look stop arging you to rarther than pinning it on one party.
I didn't though, obviously, as I relied to your thread 'incorrectly'. I have re-read the OP in that thread playing with the syntax and grammar and don't get it
It depends. Just as they don't know about the person they respond to, that person doesn't know about them. They might well be in a position to really now things but be unable to say so. There are a few oblique references here that are meant to sound as such and often disregardable for that reason imo, but there are some which interest me more. When Here is an example of such an oblique reference: if or when I hear something that I believe to be pertinant I often do not post it because I shouldn't have heard or understood it but I do get invited to some lovely partiesIt is interesting to hear from the less informed people though, quote]
Would classing some one as less informed when you do not know or actualy want to know anything about them class as rude or at least inflatory!
Is any of that truthful? Relevant? possibly, possibly not! I do rpeatedly make it clear (in case some of my dull questions and propositions don;t) that I make no pretence of being an expert in any field relevant here. In fact I've been open about my background, but who can know?0 -
justpurchased wrote: »So why pick on something you know affects you, I commend you for performing so well in literacy, but I can't understand the dig, unless you thought I was just poorly educated. But please read the above reply to mewbie, as you suffer with a trait a lot of people on here do.
The dig was because of your (unnecessary) insulting of other people's intelligence, comparing them to single-cell creatures, etc. That combined with your poor written English is a bit off, IMO.
I don't think dyslexia should be used as an excuse for poor written English. I've worked like mad to improve my written work, and also have strategies such as avoiding words I know I can't spell ("mental health", for example, instead of that horrible word starting with "p")....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »The dig was because of your (unnecessary) insulting of other people's intelligence, comparing them to single-cell creatures, etc. That combined with your poor written English is a bit off, IMO.
I don't think dyslexia should be used as an excuse for poor written English. I've worked like mad to improve my written work, and also have strategies such as avoiding words I know I can't spell ("mental health", for example, instead of that horrible word starting with "p").
I am a b,d,w,m person myself and writing before thinking (well writing ahead of my self ironic realy as i had to edit this in.). Some people are not as well supported as others, I worked through my holidays so i could buy a type writter just so I could pass english (not an excuse before you start. cue hovis music:rotfl: ) thats why i did not do a levels and persued a career in sales and IT (a spell check and no bad hand writting) but yuo dont know me you have your own opinion i have been insulted by a lot of people on here before this why did you not but in then? But i accept you point and that is why i said i was in the wrong earlier.0
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