People complaining about Spelling mistakes

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Oh, and then there are the innocent typos that could be misinterpreted as a misspelling. I spelled cabinet cabunet in my saucy hair-drying story. But it was a typo.

If the message was clear enough to be corrected, it was clear enough to go without correction. I only ASK for clarification if i am really and truely confused. I think it is petty and cruel to tell someone about their minor mistakes. The last time i told someone about a spelling mistake it was in a pm, and i was only doing it because i was afraid he'd feel foolish later when someone else pointed it out to him in their so often cruel fashion.

I am a human spell checker. I am incapable of reading a post with spelling errors without mentally correcting them. For example, I would mentally change your post to:



I would mentally correct your spelling errors; however, under normal circumstances, I would never write up the corrections and ask you to change your original post, especially if I thought you preferred to write it incorrectly. I prefer to be told if I make a spelling mistake because I don't want to learn to spell a word incorrectly, so sometimes my "treat others the way I want to be treated myself" philosophy might mislead me. I am married to a brilliant man who happens to be a very bad speller, so I check the documents he writes for misspelled words after they pass a spell checker. If I read an e-mail he is about to send, he has to tell me if he does not want his spelling corrected. I see my spelling ability as my special talent, and my husband has many other special talents.

The people who annoy me are the ones who write gibberish and then have the unmitigated gall to complain because nobody reads or responds to their posts.

I think I'd have added some commas to the text you edited. I know you didn't mention punctuation, but you did change some. Also, I would have used "someone" not "some one".

It doesn't bother me as long as the sentence is coherent.

I know I changed one punctuation mark. I changed a period to a question mark.

Good job catching some one and changing it to someone; I wondered if anyone would notice.



We need a :ROFL: emoticon!

I agree wit you MindOfChoas. It shoulnt relly matter how we spell words aslong as we get the message across. I think a few typos and and mispellings add colour to another wise colorless poste.

This one annoys me on other forums,I was recently told by someone that I was an idiot because according to them I had used an 'M' instead of an 'N' on the start of a word,,it wasn't even a mistake,I did some research on whether I used the right wording,and I was the one in the right,he is a prat most of the time,goes around telling people he knows are dyslexic telling them to stop being lazy and spell correctly.

Like Aspen,I do notice when reading; the grammar or spelling mistakes,but don't post about it,forums aren't an English language exam afterall,and shouldn't be treated like one.

I guess it doesn't really bother me, but if I see a mistake, I will correct it. I guess that's just the speller in me though. I have always been a good speller, even in elementary school.

You are a barrel of laughs. I do use a spell checker though I might not see all of My mistakes in the end either.

My spelling is ok, but sometimes I am pretty bad, mainly with larger words. I don't correct spelling for this reason - i'm no better myself.

grammar on the other hand I tend to want to correct all the time because it really annoys me when people use the word in the wrong context. It just makes people sound really uneducated.

I ingor people who crocy my spellong unless I asked them to that gos for grammer as well . I try very hard and use word spell sheck ask y house mae use a difrent wod when I just cant get it most of the messages I stare to pot n this foram I don nd up posting n beause I get part ay through them comm. Up agenst word I cant spll and don’t kno how to replace it realy s**ts me because I have this hugh vocabley an I have finley found a large groop of people who might achley understand ad my spelling abilyust gets inte way

And after 28 minutes and 3 trips to my housemates room

I ignore people who correct my spelling unless I asked them to. That goes for grammar as well. I try very hard and use word spell check and ask my housemate or use a different word when I just can’t get it. Most of the messages I start to put on this forum I don’t end up posting because I get part way through them come up ageist word I cant spell and don’t know how to replace it so I give up. It really s**ts me because I have this large vocabulary and I have finely found a large group of people who might understand it and my spelling gets in the way.

KingdomOfRats wrote:

I’m not a violent person (ok this is a outright lie) but me thinks this person would benefit much from my RBBT (Reppetive Baseball Bat Therapy)

It depends on how bad the spelling is.

IF YOU TALK IN ALL CAPS

Or, WoRsE, LiKe ThIs

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or liek this, and u dont spel nething rite

Then yeah, it shows a lack of even anything like effort to type legibly. Typoes, though, I have no room to complain about. I typo a lot myself.

Though we often automatically infer things about someone's intelligence based on how well he or she writes, being able to spell isn't actually much of an indicator of intelligence. Lots of very bright people have trouble spelling well (among them dyslexics).

And then there are the folks who speak English as a second language. They might make lots of mistakes in spelling and even grammar, but it's definitely no indicator of intelligence. (Just imagine how intelligent we native English speakers would sound in Finnish. Or Swahili. )

I like to be corrected when I make mistakes in Dutch (it's not my native language and I'm still learning). I don't enjoy being corrected on simple typos, however, which is pretty much what spelling errors I make in English are likely to be. As for rules about commas and quote marks and whether "they" should be used as a genderless singular pronoun, well.....it ain't that dang important, and there are no universal rights and wrongs. Me, I follow the Chicago Manual of Style and use the Oxford comma.

I guess Chaos finally tired of me correcting him and decided to post about it. Normally, I won't point out mistakes because the person is either just being lazy, or has made an accidental mistake. They'll still know how to spell the word, so it doesn't need correcting. Even so, I'll still fix their major spelling mistakes when I post a quote of their post. The irritating thing is when people consistently mispell the same word, because they don't know a grammar rule. For instance, a lot of people have taken to spelling the word different as differen't. This isn't a typo, it isn't just not knowing how to spell. If they're aware that the apostrophe is used when abbreviating two words, then what do they think different is an abbreviation for? It's just horribly horribly wrong.

Danlo wrote-It's just horribly horribly wrong.

Wait a minute. I thought there was no right or wrong; only power. The power of mispeling!!