Aah, spelling!

thanks eastcoastgal:)

Oh, I agree that occasional typos and spelling mistakes are trivial. But once in a while you come across a post with such horrendous spelling and grammar that it’s pretty much incomprehensible. I usually stop trying a couple of sentences into it when that happens.

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers… Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.

Honestly, laziness of expression usually equals laziness of thought. I think a big part of the reason why the internet exploded in popularity was because it gave anyone the opportunity to see his or her words in print without making the intellectual effort to write something that was actually worthy of being published. It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally accepted the fact that the internet is populated mostly by people who aren’t writing to be understood, but just to see their words in print. Talking to hear themselves talk, in effect. If you want clarity of thought and expression, I suggest you read a book.

Well, that’s not strictly true, Jane. Some people do care. I’d like it if people would express themselves more clearly. But I know that’s not going to happen, so I don’t stress about it. You might observe, though, that most of the actual discussion (as opposed to banter and trading insults) on this board takes place between people who DO make an effort to express their thoughts accurately and clearly.

Case in point:”I do see your point, but me myself I am not going to spell check everything before i post it on here. The reasoning for this is that it could be laziness sure why not but in all honesty I dont care if I have spelling errors or not it is an online post not a mid paper. (:”Jane is a fucking retard and will never ever be taken seriously by anyone. Jane must live in a group home.Someone please take Jane’s funding, and her computer, away.

“The people who get SUPPER UPPITY about spelling and grammar online i would say for the most part have just run out of rational arguments and decide to pick on something they can actually be right about.”What the hell is “supper uppity”? Is that some sort of new restaurant in the city?

lol and super maybe that was intentional though based on the bitch?although most defiantly not.

I don’t think spelling is the issue, it’s knowing grammatical usage of particular spellings of words. As that poem shows, spellchecker only recognizes misspellings, not the word usage in a sentence. The “supper uppity” statement, whether intentional in this thread, or not, is a good example of how using the wrong word takes a sentence and makes it nonsensical. When there’s a long winded Bitch with a lot of words like that, trying to decipher the meaning can be a pain in the ass. The trouble is, the lazy attitudes of most people toward grammar and spelling, due to the internet and text messaging, is becoming the norm. Typos are one thing, usually you can tell when something is a typo, but the substitution of similar spelled words that have no similar meaning, is a completely different matter. And it is annoying to those of us who can tell the difference. I know most of the offenders don’t care, but if you’re going to the trouble of offering an opinion on a subject, I would assume you want it read and possibly taken seriously. It won’t be if we have to decipher the meaning.

Hey Jammie go fuck yourselfclear enouph for you to read you fucking immature sack of shit

Well Janey, dear, my comment was intended to be satirical but by not recognizing that and spewing out more retaliatory gibberish, you have only proven the point that I wasn’t actually trying to make. Confusing isn’t it?There, there.