How come so many of you cannot spell?

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Danielismyname
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04 Apr 2008, 4:33 am

I don't read any of your messages anyway, so it doesn't bother me.

I just guess what everyone says.

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04 Apr 2008, 4:43 am

i push the wrong keys on the keyboard sometimes and too lazy to correct

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04 Apr 2008, 11:13 am

I will sometimes misspell, but thanks to the spell check in Firefox I almost never post with spelling mistakes, sometimes grammar mistakes that I fix almost right away, but *almost* never spelling. I also tend to write run on sentences...

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04 Apr 2008, 5:47 pm

Rainstorm5 wrote:

I hate text-speak, as I call it, 'Net-Speak.' I use 'LOL' every now and then, but that's about it. Net-speak reminds me of Orwell's 'New-Speak' and 'Double-think,' and it's going to be the death of the English language as we know it. Sad day, too. One day we will all think in hypertext shorthand, or else we won't think at all.

It won't be. Spellings have only been truly standardised for the last 300 years or so; before that, people spelled words as they sounded, so different dialects would have had words spelt differently.

Most (I say most) people who abbreviate heavily on the internet are able to spell words the longhand way, it's just that shorter spellings are more convenient for sites which tolerate heavily abbreviated language. Who knows, maybe some internet spellings will eventually become standardised, but it won't kill off the English language. Languages don't die due to change.

Sorry for going off on a tangent, and I don't mean to pick on you in particular.

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04 Apr 2008, 6:03 pm

WP is a support forum,not school.

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04 Apr 2008, 7:02 pm

KingdomOfRats wrote:

WP is a support forum,not school.

Quoted for truth.

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04 Apr 2008, 11:38 pm

I always hit the wrong keys, but I'm careful to check my message before posting it ! !!

Also I uses Safari and it auto spellchecks ! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

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04 Apr 2008, 11:40 pm

dont wannnna
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05 Apr 2008, 12:27 am

Social_Fantom wrote:

I is a gr8 spelar thank u veri mutch!! :evil:

lo-friggin-l!! !

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06 Apr 2008, 7:26 pm

ccflowergirl wrote:

HOW DO YOU SPELL
dyslexia ! !! !! !! !! !

Good one!

I wonder that myself.

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06 Apr 2008, 8:20 pm

Bad spelling is a big pet peeve of mind. the typical common typo doesn't bother me, it's when you have teenagers, and even many adults, that have trouble spelling even simple words that I go crazy!

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06 Apr 2008, 8:24 pm

Lumina wrote:

This site isn’t half as bad as other sites I’ve been to where I spend a good portion of my time trying to decipher txt spk.

“LOL! U R rly werd. Srsly."

That's "Txtspk" (Text-message speak), which, thankfully, I am just barely old enough to avoid getting influenced by. :lol:

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06 Apr 2008, 8:29 pm

:evil: ahhhh, I keep seeing this thread pop up and I didn't wanna respond. It makes me MAD.

I spell just fine thankyou very much. I always study the dictionary looking for new pedantic words :nerdy: and then I spell check before posting.