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katejo

battleborn wrote: »

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

No need for it, it is pettty.

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Grammar not grammer ! When I tried to type grammer , the spellcheck corrected it immediately

battleborn

People draw attention to spelling mistakes as they have nothing to say and nothing to add, they do it out of spite.

vyle

NBLondon wrote: »

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...

Hah you remind me of when I was a kid, I always had my nose in a book, or was playing video games (mostly RPGs), so when my teacher sarcastically offered to give £10 to whoever could spell metempsychosis, I took him up on it and won. I was 8. He didn't pay up .

But I was aware of words like cataclysm, I knew of Pegasus and other strangely named characters of mythology, which non-bookish types, or indeed, non-gamers wouldn't know about.

Especially with my RPGs, because they had no voice overs, I used to sit there reading the dialogue with an encyclopedia and a dictionary next to me so I would know what they were referring to.

somethingcorporate

battleborn wrote: »

People draw attention to spelling mistakes as they have nothing to say and nothing to add, they do it out of spite.

Cobblers! they do it because they appreciate the beauty of the English language and the evolution of it over many centuries and detest it being murdered by lazy-arsed, dim-witted half-wits.

Some people just don't care about what they post but the fact that some do care about the quality of what they are reading and make a judgement about the poster (and whether they are worthy of their time to post a response) it genuinely just hurts the poster who cannot be bothered to make a real effort to spell, punctuate and proof-read what they are posting.

It often derails threads that otherwise could have just focused on answering the question rather than a slanging match between those that care about the English language and those that don't!

battleborn

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Cobblers! they do it because they appreciate the beauty of the English language and the evolution of it over many centuries and detest it being murdered by lazy-arsed, dim-witted half-wits.

Some people just don't care about what they post but the fact that some do care about the quality of what they are reading and make a judgement about the poster (and whether they are worthy of their time to post a response) it genuinely just hurts the poster who cannot be bothered to make a real effort to spell, punctuate and proof-read what they are posting.

It often derails threads that otherwise could have just focused on answering the question rather than a slanging match between those that care about the English language and those that don't!

Cobblers back at ya!:T

somethingcorporate

A massive sweeping assumption on my part but personally I think the people that are anal about detail are exactly the people you want to be responding to your threads, not the ones that are happy to read and post in child-like (moronic) text speak.

battleborn

somethingcorporate wrote: »

A massive sweeping assumption on my part but personally I think the people that are anal about detail are exactly the people you want to be responding to your threads, not the ones that are happy to read and post in child-like (moronic) text speak.

Nothing wrong with text speak on forums and message boards, we all understand it these days, innit blud!

Patchwork_Girl

battleborn wrote: »

People draw attention to spelling mistakes as they have nothing to say and nothing to add, they do it out of spite.

Disagree. Typos are no problem - they happen to us all - and I write in a casual way in forums and expect others to do the same. Formal 'correct' grammar has no real place in speech and the way that languge evolves is amazing and fascinating.

But mistakes like 'would of', 'could of', mixing up of your/you're, advice/advise, misuse of apostrophes (personal bugbear!) etc are silly mistakes and easily corrected - if only people didn't take offence and get uppity when they are pointed out. Some of these do make the writer look a bit ignorant when they are consistently getting them wrong - perhaps because most people who read/have a basic level of education would know they were incorrect.

I don't think that the fact that these irritate me make me a bad/boring person, and I do try really hard not to be snobby/annoying/right!

All just IMHO of course .

battleborn

Why you quoting me????????????????????????????????

dzug1

battleborn wrote: »

Nothing wrong with text speak on forums and message boards, we all understand it these days, innit blud!

I don't - well let's say it's as difficult as reading a foreign language. I can make it out, slowly, but usually don't bother