Bad spelling on forums

[Hucksta]

I am not the best speller in the world. Some of my mates are terrible, but i still love them. My wife is ok, I still love her. I don't judge people on how good they are at spelling. Surely there are more important things to worry about.

[abaddonxi]

I am not the best speller in the world. Some of my mates are terrible, but i still love them. My wife is ok, I still love her. I don't judge people on how good they are at spelling. Surely there are more important things to worry about.

Yeah, grammar.

[DiscoStew]

Yeah, grammar.

My grammar was lovely. She cooked me biscuits and laughed at my jokes, God bless her.

[Hoges]

it's late

[VladTepes]

I love you vlad

I'm touched, really, but I;m not sure it's in a good way

Location: Hahndorf - but territorian forever

Well anyone with the attitude of a Territorian ( presuming thats Northerm ~ and Australian Capital~ ) but somewhere they can enjoy wine and decent European food... can't be entirely silly !

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Typical problem with the English language

I remember here in Oz, at Talangatta the locals believe that it have to be pronounced Talangattá that means with accent on the a then the locals in Coolangatta do not use the accent on the a

No rules inside a country or between the English speaking countries

That would be because that the folks in Talangattá are the custodians of an original name for the town, so have a historical link to it's correct usage.

The people in Coolangatta (and I'm making an assumption about which one here) have a double disability, they are Queenslanders and they have a second hand name for the place, which was named after a ship, that was named after a village, that was named after a mountain many hundreds of miles away from Tweed Heads.

[MarknDeb]

Ok granted. That's just one example. Does thort come up in a spellcheck?

Look at the big picture. Are people lazy, stupid or they just don't care?

There could be one more reason

"it can be fun when it ****es off annal retentive people like you"

[p38arover]

There could be one more reason

"it can be fun when it ****es off annal retentive people like you"

Annals (Latin Annales, from annus, a year) are a concise form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year.

[Ralph1Malph]

I generally avoid these posts as they can get emotive.
However I do have an opinion regarding this.
I try to spell correctly because it's the right thing to do! I am not talking about correctly spelled words being mistyped because of rushed typing/inattention/fat fingers etc, as this happens and almost always the meaning of the word and contxt of the sentence is still very clear. (here's an example I haven't bothered to correct as contxt still conveys the message.)
I get more annoyed at people who make words up as this tends to leave me to interpret what I think they mean, rather than them concisely telling me in written form what it is they want me to get from the text!
In most cases I can interpret made up words (yes, thort is a made up word) but some times it is hard to nail the context.

I remember a funny incident that happened when my wife and I first married, she wrote me a note reminding me to get some butter from the supermarket on my way home. We had always used margarine so I thought, no worries, she wants butter so I purchased butter. She then informed at home that she couldn't remember how to spell margarine so wrote butter instead safe in the knowledge that I would know what she meant!

Point is, she may as well have written 'shizzledinkle' as I had to interpret what she wanted instead of the text being clear.

Just my 10c

Ralph

[Xul]

4x4 action is shocking.

The only ones that really annoy me are 'looser' and 'splet'. I love the irony when people say "You spelt that wrong".

Personally I think grammar on here is more important than the occaional spelling error. You can usually read through a few spelling errors, but reading a 2 paragraph post which is one sentance is hard.