Bad spelling on forums

[B92 8NW]

Before driving my Land Rover into the out-back to look at all the pretty floræ et faunæ I thowt it wyse to ensure the drive belt deflexion was within specification, but since it is automatically tensioned unlike its prædecessor, it become more of a phanaticiſm.


Perfect english

[ladas]

I'm saying nowt!



That's a word processing program!

..............and it's got a spell checker !!!!!

[pop058]

I thought I had better correct my previous post in case the arithmetic nazis are a diligent as the spelling nazis.

[hoadie72]

Ohhhhh, no..... don't tell me.... another person that thinks that if someone goes to university that they somehow become dumber than someone who hasn't. It does admittedly impress me how universities can charge thousands of dollars, spend so much government money and spend a whole stack of years to change somebody who has completed the HSC (or equiv) to somebody that has the educational performance of a Yr7.

Your statement is lame.

It's not at all lame.

A previous comment had been made that some people have a low level or standard of education and it may be why they can't spell. I dispute that - education level has nothing to do with it. Universities don't teach people to spell. I've been there and some of the worst spellers I know have uni degrees. And their going to uni has in no way made them dumb! Not sure how you read that into my comment to be honest.

My dad on the other hand is a mechanic and spells better than most people I know.

I think the issue is around the education system. From what I remember, spelling and grammar aren't taught at all after primary school.

[Blknight.aus]

heres one way of looking at it (its my point of view so its got to be at least one way of looking at it).

I have a finite number of brain cells and I can dedicate them to learning only so much......

I was too busy learning about fun stuff like mechanics, science (wow, that goes bang well), maths, industrial arts, outdoor education (wow she bangs well), home economics to give a rats snot about english, social studies, artns n crafts or anything that wasnt teaching me something important to actually getting things done.


Put it to ya this way....

would you rather have a mechanic who fixed the car charged you for the fix but had a spelling/typographical/gramatical error on the bill

OR

would you rather have the mechanic who had a master piece of scriptural literature for a bill and charged you for something he couldnt fix?

[dullbird]

Maybe instead of people correcting poor spelling, which does often take away from the post and the thread, there could be a "spelling" button next to the "thanks" one, that way politely highlighting to people they've done bad.

No because then that count would over take my thanks count very very quickly

[Slunnie]

No because then that count would over take my thanks count very very quickly

It is nicer socially to keep things positive.

[stevo68]

No because then that count would over take my thanks count very very quickly

Nice one DB, I think I like you better in 09 ,

Regards


Stevo

[oldyella 76]

I feel sorry for thos hoo cant spal.

[dmdigital]

would you rather have a mechanic who fixed the car charged you for the fix but had a spelling/typographical/gramatical error on the bill

As long as the typographical error wasn't the decimal point shifted to the right 2 places