Bad spelling on forums

[midal]

You expect me to notice a spelling mistake????

I know I can't spell as midal pointed out in the soapox thread, spelling errors mean my view is un educated. and no I don't use a dictionary, you need to be le to spell to use one of those. I'm dislexic and have spent years overcomming it. I almost made it ll the waay through school without them discovering my issues or the fact that I would decorate my work with punctuation after it was finished. e.g. paragraph is aout 2 inches of hand written text.

On the contrary George, I did not point out that you can't spell, I acknowledged what you said in another post. You said in fact that your keyboard was faulty. Neither myself or anyone else would have known otherwise if you had not stated this. I also pointed out that you had conducted yourself with manners and decorum, go and have another read of the thread. Hmmm, may have to review that in the light of these comments.

Correct spelling or otherwise, so long as you get the message across I don't think it's a big deal and given the amount of people who have English as a second language it's in all walks of life nowadays...who cares?

[vnx205]

I am beginning to think that one thing that annoys me more than spelling and grammar errors is the way some people react to even the most lighthearted comment about poor spelling and grammar.

At the risk of repeating things that have been said several times before in the last couple of years, I would like to make the following comments.

• I don't regard myself as being in any way superior to people who don't spell as well as I like to think I can. In the same way, I hope that people who can remember, without consulting a workshop manual, the correct points gap for a Series I, the appropriate tappet clearance on a Morris Minor 1000 and what constitutes an acceptable amount of backlash in a Salisbury differential, don't think that is a reason to look down on me just because I don't instinctively know those things . It is a fact of life that some of us are better at some things than others. It doesn't necessarily make us a better person.
• I am aware of the fact that a hastily typed response on a forum is probably not the best indication of how well a person can spell. The need to get your response posted before someone else beats you to it can often take precedence over ensuring that the post contains no errors.
• I realise that some people who are trying to cope with a language that is not their native tongue or who have problems like dyslexia, would have to spend an unacceptable amount of time trying to remove all or even most of their errors.
• However, in spite of all that, it is still the case that it is worth making a bit of an effort. Otherwise there is the risk that the reader will not understand the post or will not bother to read the post because it just becomes too much of an effort. The fact that some very badly spelled writing is perfectly clear, does not alter the fact that some spelling or grammatical errors can change the meaning dramatically.
• I like to believe that if people think their contribution is worth publishing, that they have a responsibility to make the task of the reader easy. I want to read other people's posts. I want to understand other people's posts. Is it too much to ask that people at least appear to be making an effort to make that easy for me? At times I get the feeling, when presented with some almost indecipherable text that the writer is treating me with contempt. I know that is probably just as irrational as the way some people seems to automatically assume that correcting spelling is a sign of arrogance. I guess I will just have to live with that.
• I cannot remember ever having seen a spelling correction on this forum where my first reaction was to assume that its purpose was to ridicule to writer. It has certainly never been my intention. If that is the way some people choose to interpret my comments then I regard that as more your problem than mine.

I am now searching for an emoticon that will reduce the chances of anyone being upset by this post. I am conscious of the fact that the tone started as reasonably conciliatory and began, in spite of my best efforts to avoid it, to appear a bit intolerant towards the end.
Maybe these will do the job.

[midal]

Ha ha....well said, keep those smileys coming

[p38arover]

I posted the advert from the paper just to show how a simple spelling error (or proofing error) can radically change the whole meaning of the message.

I'm afraid that not many picked up on it thus missing my attempt at humour.

I saw a similar advert on a big banner sign at The Red Cow pub in Penrith - it read "Brassiere Now Open" - I wanted to see that.

I have the photo here somewhere.

[vnx205]

I guess those who insist that spelling doesn't matter would not appreciate the story of the American general who demanded an apology and a correction from a newspaper.

The general was not regarded as especially courageous and was fond of a drop.

The newspaper apparently described him in a headline as "Battle Scared" instead of "Battle Scarred".

The correction printed by the newspaper said that the headline should have read, "Bottle Scarred".

[87County]

I posted the advert from the paper just to show how a simple spelling error (or proofing error) can radically change the whole meaning of the message.

I'm afraid that not many picked up on it thus missing my attempt at humour.

I saw a similar advert on a big banner sign at The Red Cow pub in Penrith - it read "Brassiere Now Open" - I wanted to see that.

I have the photo here somewhere.

Oh Ron, your humour is appreciated, but most people are on here because they are LR enthusiats, not devotees of eating establishments and not devotees of over shoulder boulder holders, so don't expect too much from us

[clean32]

I posted the advert from the paper just to show how a simple spelling error (or proofing error) can radically change the whole meaning of the message.

I'm afraid that not many picked up on it thus missing my attempt at humour.

I saw a similar advert on a big banner sign at The Red Cow pub in Penrith - it read "Brassiere Now Open" - I wanted to see that.

I have the photo here somewhere.

why didnt you then, it is a topless bar

[Chucaro]

I think that we have to put a ............

[Chucaro]

Early Texas governors were not very well educated. There was once a chief executive who thought “grammar” was his father’s mother. On one occasion this governor went hunting and forgot his gun. He phoned his secretary and asked him to send the gun. “The phone connection’s bad,” said the secretary. “I couldn’t catch that last word. Spell it.” The governor replied, ” G like in Jesus; U like in onion; N like in pneumonia GUN, you damn fool!”

[p38arover]

Early Texas governors were not very well educated.

I'm not sure about a recent one:

George Walker Bush born July 6, 1946) served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.