Bad Spelling

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I can never get past bad spelling. It totally interrupts the flow of whatever is being said, I think my brain ends up spending too much time processing and translating the errors that I miss a lot of the point.
I understand that a lot of people suck at spelling, but with computers there are spell checkers, so what's the point of spelling incorrectly? Whenever I spell something incorrectly in a text field, I get a squiggly red line beneath it and I can right click and it give me options of what it might be. Some words it just doesn't have, apparently "antipsychotic" isn't actually a real word, and sometimes that bugs me a bit, but words can always be added anyways. And some words I NEVER spell correctly, like "doesn't" every single time I write it, I end up having to right-click and correct it. But it's not like it's that difficult.

Sorry for the rant.. I can't be the only one that gets hung up on that, though, can I? It's really distracting to have to translate all the mistakes and figure out what's actually being said. I get that some things are unavoidable, but on a computer, it doesn't matter if you can't naturally spell well, the computer tells you. So why do so many people just not bother to right-click and correct the spelling errors? It really interferes with making a coherent point, especially here where lots of people tend to get hung-up on details like that. Every time I see something like that that's really wrong, my brain just reads it differently, it's like they stick out, so the errors are separate from the rest of it, and they're not the words that they were meant to be. Even once I know what word it was meant to be, it's still not that word. It's word-that-was-meant-to-be-this-other-word-but-actually-isn't.
Does that happen to other people? It's like having pieces of another language interspersed into a paragraph. Even once I learn what the words in the other language mean, going back and fourth between languages is confusing.

get over it lol

LOL This does bother me too. Sometimes I spend too much time double checking that my spelling is correct because re-reading my OWN posts with errors makes me mad. I generally try hard to overlook other peoples mistakes because I figure that I'm just obsessive about it. And we all tend to make little errors every once in awhile. Even those of us who right click.

Misspellings just jump out at me too, although the older I get misspell more. I didn't know you could right click to get options. That's good to know. I see them all the time and sometimes it's not a misspelling but a misunderstanding of which word to use when they sound alike. I have seen just recently-fowl for foul (a fowl is a bird). It's not the end of the world but if you're a word nerd it is discombobulating.

I can relate to your issue. Usually opt for a simpler spelt word when writing something, same issue when I have a conversation. I have a vast vocabularly, know the words, just can't find them when I want to and at times saying them comes out all wrong.

Go for the simpler words that express a similar thought! Easier to spell and speak.

i no exactly wut u meen. its so agravaiting to half to corect peoples spelling and grammer when u reed there righting.

Couldn't resist.

Don't you have the squiggle? If you use Firefox (I don't know about other browsers,) then if you right click in the text area, and click "check spelling" so there's a check next to it, then it'll give you a red squiggly underline under misspelled words, like in Word. Then you don't need to double-check. No grammar check, though. Hey! Maybe there's a plug-in! Grammar checks never work very well, though. I'll have to check..

Telling someone to get over getting hung up and confused by misspelling is about like telling you to get over your dyslexia, or any of your other various problems. You keep whining that not enough people are sensitive to your problems, even though you're nothing but insensitive to anybody else.

it bothers me too. sometimes when i'm quoting posts and i see their bad spelling, i'll correct it before i submit my post.

same with grammar.

I agree it is difficult to understand the point being made as well as the context from one verb to another if I am stating a fact or asking a question is very different without the clarity of concern insinuated by the author the reader and topic get lost sometimes it makes me wonder if their time is believed to be more valuable than mine since the lack of concern for the reader is so obvious what is being said and to whom about what becomes horribly painful to assume if there was any intended conclusion at all.

I agree, it is difficult to understand the point being made, as well as the context from one verb to another. If I am stating a fact or asking a question is very different, without the clarity of concern insinuated by the author, the reader and topic get lost. Sometimes it makes me wonder if their time is believed to be more valuable than mine, since the lack of concern for the reader is so obvious, what is being said, and to whom, about what, becomes horribly painful to assume, if there was any intended conclusion at all.

I also find it very difficult to read some posts because the spelling and grammar are so poor. We all make mistakes and I don't have a problem with the occasional error in an otherwise comprehensible post, but some I find completely unreadable.

I prefer going back and fifth, myself. Or tossing back a "fifth". But seriously, though, don't you feel there is some cosmic force out there (Flying Spaghetti Monster?) that ensures that any rant about spelling must always include at least one misspelled word?

Don't rely too much on much-vaunted spell-checkers. You might "loose" your mind

I understand that spelling is one of those things that some people just "get", naturally and easily, and for some people it's a real challenge. I've always been able to spell effortlessly (though I do make mistakes), but I can't drive a car with manual transmission to save my life. It's a mystery to me how people can learn that. So...everyone's got their thing.

I can get over the spelling mistakes when it's clear that the person just isn't a natural speller, or is dyslexic. It's a bit more work to read sometimes, but the person is making the effort to communicate, and doing their best. What bugs me is all the "ur" instead of "you are", and that kind of thing. And I don't understand why some people write "dis and dat" instead of "this and that" (are those basic, 1st-grade-level words really that hard to master?), and yet otherwise seem to be able to write a fairly good sentence. I assume it's more of an affectation than a misspelling.

ALL CAPS makes my brain spin, and I won't read it at all. It's too much work, and it's something the writer has full control over. When someone types in all caps, they are saying, "I don't have much respect for you, the reader, and I'm going to make you work extra hard to figure out what I'm trying to say."

*This post will have spelling/grammar errors YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ROFL!* LOL! When I type I focus on what I'd say if I was speaking to you I also do this with research papers. I Focus on getting my thoughts onto paper beofre worrying over grammar etc. My english 2 teacher asked if I had dyslexia since I'd type he instead of the.

The computer tells you a list of possible words or sometimes the computer will just insert a completely incorrect word, because it decides only that one word was close enough. This can actually have the opposite effect of making people's writing harder to understand. Spell checkers only really work for people who can spell who make the odd mistake in their typing (Ironic, isn't it?).


I'd love to have this approach! Unfortunately it would be hypocritical of me, since i am always whining about people's poor use of context on here