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battleborn

That always have to correct your spelling or grammer on forums/message boards.

No need for it, it is pettty.

:eek:;):p:eek:

Carer

Ok I'll bite...

battleborn wrote: »

That always have to correct your spelling or grammar on forums/message boards.

No need for it, it is petty.

:eek:;):p:eek:

:rotfl::rotfl::D

bod1467

It's because people treat forums like instant messaging, and just can't be @rsed to look at their own spelling and grammar. But a forum is NOT instant messaging. You do NOT have to type and hit submit straight away!

giraffe69

That always have to correct your spelling or grammer on forums/message boards.

Correct it yourself and they won't have to!

mambo69

battleborn wrote: »

That always have to correct your spelling or grammer on forums/message boards.

No need for it, it is pettty.

:eek:;):p:eek:

Grammatically should it not be

it's petty rather than it is petty?

System

I would say that if you're that bothered about people correcting your grammar and spelling then you should make an effort to eradicate them from your posts.

I personally don't care whether I spell something wrong, or if someone then decides to correct my spelling.

Frankly when someone starts correcting your spelling it tends to mean you are winning the argument as they have run out of anything substantial to say!

MamaMoo_2

Although I find it irritating, I won't pull people up on it because they may have a genuine reason for their mistakes (learning difficulties, dyslexia etc.)
What irritates me is when people get the names of things so terribly wrong.
Today, on a local selling page, I have seen people selling "Ham Bags" (hand bags, alas, not bags for ham) and Chester Drawers (sad to say that these aren't drawers from Chester)

battleborn

well done for spotting pettty

aileth

MamaMoo wrote: »

Although I find it irritating, I won't pull people up on it because they may have a genuine reason for their mistakes (learning difficulties, dyslexia etc.)
What irritates me is when people get the names of things so terribly wrong.
Today, on a local selling page, I have seen people selling "Ham Bags" (hand bags, alas, not bags for ham) and Chester Drawers (sad to say that these aren't drawers from Chester)

And Chiwahwah puppies and Cocker Spanyels!

Littleweedj

I agree it may be down to text messaging nowadays. Letter writing seems to have gone out of fashion, which is a shame as there is nothing nicer than getting a hand written communication through the post.

Have also noticed that many people write 'thank you' as one word......but unfortunately the correct spelling of words is positively on the decline. Maybe if more people read books it would help.

vyle

I am on the fence on this one.

Writing in a clear and concise manner certainly helps put one's message across and minimises the possibility of misunderstandings.

However, it is very easy for somebody to make a simple typo and miss out a letter, or hit two keys at once, and such occurences rarely change the meaning of a message.

I do find the willful ignorance of some to be irritating (for instance, when corrected that it is "hand bag," not "ham bag," somebody may become overly defensive and abusive and refuse to learn), but it's not hugely important that everybody become grammatically perfect. I know I'm not, and I may be guilty of split infinitives, misuse (or un-use?) of semi colons, and I have no idea what a past perfect tense is, even though I've looked it up.

Of course, some irritation does come from people who write as if texting, because it is hard to read and seems like they derive pride from contradicting the standards with which some of us were brought up -- that their vernacular is superior and its alien nature is perceived as a threat towards the values we hold dear. But language does change, and these changes are regarded with fear, suspicion and with the opinion that standards are declining. Even in the 70s, the Bullock Report (1975) reported that employers lamented how students leaving school are unemployable due to their inability to read and write. Many of those school leavers of the time may well be posting here now claiming superiority over the youth of today.

The evolution of language is never popular with the previous generation, but complaining about it on a forum is hardly going to change it. We will be phased out, just as the generations before us spoke and wrote in a different way -- a way which they too believed to be superior.