Thread: I hate knocking people, but wouldn't you TRY to spell things right?

Originally Posted by Chronic

Wow 6 pages of a posts of some poor dudes misspelling I don’t know who to fill sorry for the dude or you lot who don’t have a life heheheheheh

Fill?

Actually, I'm also annoyed by the use of the figures 1, 2, and 4 instead of one, to or too, and four. I suspect it's a consequence of too much texting!

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953 had me confused for a few secs with this:

.... really dont expect this 1,2 last like the quality brands ....

Originally Posted by p38arover

Fill?

Actually, I'm also annoyed by the use of the figures 1, 2, and 4 instead of one, to or too, and four. I suspect it's a consequence of too much texting!

See Cheap Chainsaw

953 had me confused for a few secs with this:

You're not a compulsive obsessive personality by any chance Ron?

Originally Posted by p38arover

Fill?

Actually, I'm also annoyed by the use of the figures 1, 2, and 4 instead of one, to or too, and four. I suspect it's a consequence of too much texting!

See Cheap Chainsaw

953 had me confused for a few secs with this:

You'd love another board I'm a mod on Ron, text speak is banned.
The admin/owner was in the publishing game, and any of the kids who use SMS talk are politely asked to refrain.

Her reasoning is brilliant, as those that are sight impaired and use 'readers' to surf the net can't work out what is being said.

Originally Posted by rick130

Her reasoning is brilliant, as those that are sight impaired and use 'readers' to surf the net can't work out what is being said.

Rick, that is an excellent point which I had never considered. After my eye op., I actually thought about installing a reader on my laptop so I could "read" the AULRO threads.

Originally Posted by Panda

You're not a compulsive obsessive personality by any chance Ron?

No, but I believe in clarity. The use of figures (or ampersands - &) doesn't make text clearer and therefore easier to read. The use of figures actually slows reading and comprehension.

Even in text, figures are only used when appropriate. There are styles commonly adopted in publishing. For example, one would write the words for 1 to 10 but, above that, one uses the numbers, e.g., one million but 20 million.

Over the years, when I've been editor of various club mags, I had to use global search and replace on many submissions as the writer(s) persisted in using "&" instead of "and".

It is not clearer and the ampersand should only be used in certain circumstances. See All about ampersands

Wow 6 pages of a posts of some poor dudes misspelling I don’t know who to fill sorry for the dude or you lot who don’t have a life heheheheheh

No, what I feel it show's is how important spelling is by the majority of people. It's not the odd error here and there, we are all guilty of that. I have no sympathy and if you are that stupid to put up an advertisement that quite clearly targets you as an idiot, where does the responsibility lie.

Bottom line it is generally not considered acceptable. One can come up with 100 different excuses....it's not important for what I do...or the poor bugger give him a break....English is one of the harder languages to learn ( yeah for sure if you are from another country)... etc etc. That might wash if you are 10 yrs old, not a fully grown adult. I think it is JDNSW on here who in the past has said he is dyslexic but took the time and effort to learn to spell and use grammar correctly. Also I am talking about the average person, 2 arms, 2 legs, fully functioning brain etc.

Clearly threads like this and others that have arisen over the years, would seem to dictate how important spelling and grammar is to the average person. The downside to poor spelling and grammar ( rightly or wrongly, correctly or incorrectly) is that by your peers you will be seen in a poor light,

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

No, what I feel it show's is how important spelling is by the majority of people. It's not the odd error here and there, we are all guilty of that. I have no sympathy and if you are that stupid to put up an advertisement that quite clearly targets you as an idiot, where does the responsibility lie.

Bottom line it is generally not considered acceptable. One can come up with 100 different excuses....it's not important for what I do...or the poor bugger give him a break....English is one of the harder languages to learn ( yeah for sure if you are from another country)... etc etc. That might wash if you are 10 yrs old, not a fully grown adult. I think it is JDNSW on here who in the past has said he is dyslexic but took the time and effort to learn to spell and use grammar correctly. Also I am talking about the average person, 2 arms, 2 legs, fully functioning brain etc.

Clearly threads like this and others that have arisen over the years, would seem to dictate how important spelling and grammar is to the average person. The downside to poor spelling and grammar ( rightly or wrongly, correctly or incorrectly) is that by your peers you will be seen in a poor light,

Regards

Stevo

One would suggest that misinformation, would be worse than incorrect spelling



It was George 130

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/621393-post100.html

One would suggest that misinformation, would be worse than incorrect spelling



It was George 130

To Spell or not to Spell :-)

Ah, but note I did say "I think" which left it open to correction , the point is still the same. If I had said I definately thought it was JDNSW, then that is different.

Regards

Stevo