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I agree with the post above.
The point is, it is so petty to come back at someone with spelling corrections when the reader clearly knows what they are trying to say, we all mkae tpyign erors frmo tmie to time so attakcing or corrtecingt peolep sholud be frowned upon.
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Welcome to my everday life
My son has asperger's and is really smart, too smart for me. It's a good job I love him. I notice when things are incorrect, but I wouldn't pick someone up on it. I'm now really paranoid about what I've just written.:o
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Run it though that before posting.
Interestingly, my version of MS Word spots that "minimad1970": -- meant everyday and not everday
- but, more interestingly, suggests [FONT="]aspirer’s[/FONT] for [FONT="]asperger's[/FONT][FONT="] and that is such a lovely alternate term - they ASPIRE
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I am a cow so cannot speak Bullshine but I do recognise its smell when I come upon it.0 - meant everyday and not everday
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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.
Yeah in some cases it can be annoying. I've often seen what would be as much as 2 sides of A4 if written out with no capitals, full stops, commas etc basically making it one very long sentence.0 -
Lets face it, many people these days can't even spell the names of their own kids at the registry office...
Haylee, Aimee, Rebekkah, Kaytlin, Jayson, Bryanne, Destany, Kathrynn, Alivia, Tyla, Taylah.
wot howp iz thar?0 -
Don't most browsers put a little red line under spelling mistakes these days? I know mine does.0
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That assumes the browser has a built-in spell checker. Not all do ... Internet Explorer has only recently added it, and many mobile browsers (such as used on phones or tablets) may not either - unless the device spell checker comes into play.
It also assumes the spell checker is set to English UK (en-gb) and not English US (en-us).0 -
Grammatically should it not be
it's petty rather than it is petty?
No. Some would say that not using the contraction is better but that is snobbery - the terms are grammatically equivalent.
I don't pick people up unless they are being a) ambiguous or b) pompous. I realise that there are many people who struggle with written English and I suspect a lot of it is people who rarely read - they misspell words because they have only heard them spoken and never seen them written down. When I was a kid I was the other way round, I knew words that I had seen in books but never heard spoken so I didn't know how to pronounce them - like Nebuchadnezzar...
Some of it is simple laziness though; people who make a guess and can't be bothered to check.I need to think of something new here...0 -
When people make such simple spelling mistakes it makes them look incredibly stupid and a bit thick if I'm honest. I don't buy from EBayers who can't spell, and I overlook anyone who posts on here with basic grammatical errors.
When someone can't spell the simple words, you can be sure they are missing basic education, so why would you deal or interact with people like that?
Today on another forum someone spelt missed as mist, then got the hump when it was pointed out to them.0 -
When people make such simple spelling mistakes it makes them look incredibly stupid and a bit thick if I'm honest.
This is true.
Unfortunately, even if you try and draw someone's attention to a mistake they make repeatedly and which causes them to look rather stupid, they often get very defensive and you can guarantee that there will be a mass of people who jump in to suggest that what you are doing is done with the intention of making yourself look clever and/or belittling the person you attempted to help.
A very common error is using 'ect' instead of 'etc'. Frankly, continually getting that wrong makes you look pretty stupid and if I was making such an error I'd be extremely grateful if someone pointed it out to me.
When I tried to do this on here, recently, all hell broke lose and the person in question protested he was dyslexic and was extremely indignant that I'd mentioned the subject.
Interestingly, although alerted to his mistake he continued to post 'ect' on a regular basis even though, considering the fuss that was caused, he must have been aware he was getting it wrong.There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.0
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