Bad spelling on forums

[p38arover]

We have a spell checker and an English Theasurus on here....his name is Ron

I'm saying nowt!

If you don't like the spelling on here, may I suggest you go to a place where it's word perfect.

That's a word processing program!

[discomuzz]

Hmmm, ...Just as you can be judged on appearance, basic learning skills such as spelling will be judged on a forum. ...welllll..that is just plain rude in my book. ...One wouldn't correct someone for usage of a wrong word face to face

Spot bloody on!

So, why are we pandering to the 'snipers' in the first place?

[4bee]

One last thing I would loved to have seen you proof read the post over and over, to prevent these mistakes

Yeah, right.

[Grover-98]

Which are you?

Slightly above average uni student. Nobody is perfect but this thread is fun!

We need more complaints

[p38arover]

This is also teh worst for spelling ranters.

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Someone on another forum recently had an explosion because people were writing "teh" instead of "the". In the grand scheme of things in my life.... its a problem that rates quite low - if it is a big issue in anybodies life, then lifes good.

Where is the whistling emoticon?

"Teh" is is a common typo - we all do it when our fingers are flying.

[hoadie72]

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.

[DiscoTDI]

I was wondering when you would step in Ron

[Slunnie]

I think education level is a pretty poor excuse. I know people with no better than year 10 education who can spell better than your average uni graduate.

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.

[discomuzz]

BAN UNI. STUDENT MEMBERSHIP!!!!!!!

[vnx205]

When I did my search on the word "spelling" I didn't realise that there is a limit placed on the number of responses displayed.

I just found another 200 from before the end of 2006. I'm not going to bother to adjust the dates of the search to find all the others.

I'll just estimate that there are more than 600.

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