so i see all these arguments going down online. guess what and i is typing this way for a reason. YOURE opinion doesnt matter when you make a mistake. who cares if english isnt your first language or your typing on a mobile or tablet in bed or on the couch. when your opponent got nothing else to say its all Haha you cant spell or write. imagine if we discredted and wrote off all those that made a mistake. well the dooms sayers would be happy because thered be none of us left. now tear me and this apart because obviously you can figure out everything about me and my life from five sentences. oh and the old lesson still applys- nobody likes a know it all. let loose because i can take it. —yup, english is my third how many do you know?
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All I see is someone not having the pride to craft a sentence properly or take the time to spell out a word.
That being said, this is an online writing forum and poking fun of this personal issue is like kicking a puppy (or is it like shooting NSCAD students in a Pasbt barrel?). Don’t make me kick a puppy.
There’s WAY more than 5 horrible sentences there…
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B18QrNjtoCA/Tn1D…
it’s not a ‘mistake’ when someone uses your instead of you’re. a mistake is when you know better, but your fingers slipped. it would come out like youre but not your. and it doesn’t matter if you are upright at a desk or on the squatter with the squitters, either you can spell, or you cannot spell.
ESL reveals itself in other ways.
it’s only people who spell like crap who whine and complain about spelling Nazis.
and strangely enough, I take a person’s writing ability into account when I form an opinion of them, or when evaluating their opinions’ worth to me.
so? I know there are stupid people, but I didn’t make them, and I see no reason to give them a free-opinion card.
I find poor spelling distracting. I realize sometimes it’s keying error and the subsequent proofread misses it but I am a bit anal about it.
I tend to be thinking faster than I key not because I’m smart but because I type with two fingers. The result is leaving complete words out which can change the meaning of the entire sentence.
My point is we all make spelling or grammatical errors but the goal is to try and keep them to a minimum. Take some pride in your writing so to speak.
MENTAL HALITOSIS
” now tear me and this apart because obviously you can figure out everything about me and my life from five sentences.” yup english is my third
No, we can’t figure out everything about you from five sentences, only the most important thing – the quality of your mind. Language use – spelling, grammar and syntax – is the mirror of the mind. Bad spelling, grammar and syntax is the equivalent of having mental halitosis. You have mental halitosis.
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Ha ha! You can’t spell or write!
Since when does typing on a mobile or tablet – either in bed or on the couch – excuse you from using correct grammar and spelling?
And you wrote ten “sentences”.
Ha ha! You can’t add!
and another thing you whiny baby op, it’s not that your opponent has nothing else to say, it’s that your opponent has heard of ‘cast not your pearls before swine’.
and that’s the last of my mollusk excreta
Speling police
It’s hard to take someone seriously if you suspect that they’re just fucking lazy. ESL doesn’t look lazy, even if there are mistakes. It looks earnest. Lazy looks lazy.
I’m 22 and speak 4 languages fluently, thank you for asking, and no, English is not my first. As an immigrant, I definitely know the challenges of learning a new language. But there is a difference between bad spelling/ grammatical mistakes due to language limitations and mistakes due to plain old negligence. Articulate, punctuate, capitalize; putting care into how you deliver your words can greatly affect how people perceive you.