Hipercorrection, anyone???

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Well, I am a hipercorrect person. I have perfect orthography, perfect pronunciation and speaking, do you have the same issue? (of course, I'm talking about when I'm speaking spanish, because I still need to learn more english...)

I don't pronunciate anything goodly.

I doubt any mortal, lest Jove have shone upon him with favor, has perfect pronunciation, diction, spelling, punctuation usage, and fluency. As a good example of irony (on alt.usage.english, they called it Skitt's Law), take a look at what hadapurpura wrote:

Although hadapurpura excuses himself from perfect English, the fact remains that he has made some mistakes: He misspelled hypercorrect as hipercorrect. He wrote a run-on sentence, breaking parallelism in the process: "I have perfect orthography, perfect pronunciation and speaking, do you have the same issue?" A good revision of that sentence would be, "I have perfect spelling, perfect pronunciation, and perfect fluency. Do you have the same issue?"

Overly formal, pedantic language is a diagnostic criterion for Asperger's syndrome, according to Gillberg and Gillberg's definition. Many of us probably share this feature, but I doubt any of us would claim complete perfection. By the way, hypercorrection usually means correction to the point of error. In the past, throne was spelled trone and pronounced likewise; someone eventually decided it would be more etymologically correct to spell it throne because it comes from Greek, even though the th in Greek would be pronounced like a normal t in English. People eventually started pronouncing the word as it was written. There are other hypercorrections that really are wrong in contemporary English, but I cannot think of any examples off the top of my head.

I think Hadapurpa is a she, and seeing how you spell favour reminds me that perfection is only relative

I can be quite a perfectionist, especially when I am writing. I also tend to notice mistakes other people make in spelling and/or grammar. In pronunciation, well, let us just say that it's a little off normal. It is not incorrect, but there are more correct (especially for the area I live in) ways to say different words that apparently I do not follow.

Hey, I'm American, but I spell favour with an "ou". Always have, always will. And I've gotten marked down on my (British English) literature papers because of this.

Hi!! ! I'm a she. And I know I don't have a perfect english, that's why I say I'm a hypercorrect person when speaking spanish, of course, a second language is a different thing, it's not very probable to be hypercorrect when speaking a second language, like english in my case.

For nerumuos resanos byenod the one i am iullstrtaing hree i dnot crae mcuh for sllpenig. I fgirue if the msesgae was caler eoungh so you cluod crorcet me, it was cealr eougnh to go whtiuot crorcetion.

Maybe so, but it can still make the reader's eyes bleed.

Hero...Simple as that.
Though...Being an Australian we use "British English" for most of our words, yet I tend to spell some words like colour as color, cos I'm lazy. hehe

Many people have called me a "nitpick" for the way I constantly correct peoples' spelling, and sometimes pronounciation. Though I, too, can sometimes be incorrect.

GA

*grins* Me and a few of my Australian Aspie friends get asked if we have an English accent: I think it's because of our use of correct diction! What is orthography though?

Hand-writing I believe.

Well in that case Hadapurpura, you are the exception! It would appear that Aspies are far more prone to disgraphia than perfect orthography!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orthography

I can understand that, but it sounds like crunchy, slurred gibberish to my inner ear.

Cooee cobber, me headsmarts be nodding a yes, coz I be an Oztrailyen and I use the goods Queens English perfunctly.

yes, when reading it, the words in your head sound all scrambled, but you understand their meaning.