| | Spelling, or lack thereof these daysPage 5 of 7 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) | I am now officially old................some forms of writing are driving me mad, I don't mind text talk, while using text.
But using shortened words when you have the whole keyboard to use in an ordinary way is killing my brain and I soon lose interest in what the person is trying to say.....
It reminds me a bit of those times when people used to write in phonetics and you really had to get in the right frame of mind to read it. | |
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/11/2011 5:00:34 PM |
But using shortened words when you have the whole keyboard to use in an ordinary way is killing my brain and I soon lose interest in what the person is trying to say.....
It drivS me Fkng nuts 2 | |
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/12/2011 2:24:27 AM | well im always picking up my pals for their use of text speech much of which is actually illegable however i am guilty of several typo particularly the likes of nowwhen i have my nails done and when im on my iphone sometimes the predictive text really snfuses me a i cant even remeber myself what i was meaning to write.
i type like i talk which is fast and alot lol rarely takng a moment to pause for a breath or a full stop usually thease dqys i punctuate with xxx which i know ca be a bit misleading lol i rarely apologise for my momenary outbursts of verbl and same goes for my typing i only use spellcheck and proof read what ive wrote in work so apologies there
and i do know when to use there their and theyre and eveknow how to use my punctuation when using my plurals and ownership but really does it matter because not everyone is the inttelectual mastermind so long as what youre reading sounds interesting and the person is genuine who cares if thyre going to have a uni degree,
my ex bless him very smart very articulate but his grammar was terrible and he often mixed his words up when written down and reading reports he did for work was like meeting someone diffrent because he wa taking te time to read over what he had written and make changes although i still had topointout a few scoolboy errors
truth be told i was far more attraced to his little mistakes than the perfectly thought out essays, and lets face it if youre going to meet someone wouldnt you rther meet somone wo says what theyre thinking on the spur of the moment and fmo the heart than someone who has methodically engineered what they are going to say after all we can all be guilty of writing what we think people want to read
and no apologies for myshocking typos :P
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Posted: 2/13/2011 7:51:02 PM | | I really don't see much of an issue with people who text spell or just spell things wrong because they can't spell. Life is too short to be nit picking. I say as long as you understand what they mean then they have succeeded. | |
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/13/2011 7:56:02 PM | I'll say again in text type:
I rely dnt see much of a issue wiv ppl who txt spell or just spell fings rong cos they cant spell. Life is 2 short to b nit picking.
That can still be read and understood. I think anyone who moans about it is a snob or hasn't got anything better to do with their time. | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 4:16:35 AM | Text talk is lazy ..... sometimes bad spelling cant be helped ... i sometimes miss spell things .... due to not wearing my specs when on the computer  if the spelling is not quite correct .... most people get what your trying to say anyway ..... | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 4:47:13 AM | I absolutely hate reading text language, just laziness.
As for spelling, we all make mistakes but really most operating systems have a built in spellchecker and if not it takes only a minute to check it online | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 5:08:14 AM | I can understand people making typos whilst posting via fiddly mobile phone keyboards. I can understand people making errors in messages and in the middle of a maybe heated forum debate. Text speak for me is a bit of a turn off on here - it has its place - in SMS messages.
What truly amazes me is that people don't bother to check their profile submissions, fill them with txt spk bllx and - can't even spell their own occupation. The latter - I'd conclude they were a few sandwiches short of a full picnic and not exactly going to be entertaining company - unless you find dribbling entertaining. | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 6:19:49 AM | Im not the world best speller , but i try ,and if i get it wrong then i just hope people know what i mean :)
by the way im LQ2MS ,as they say it in text speak  | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 12:23:32 PM | Rightly or wrongly, risking the flak, yes, it does matter if someone can write properly.
A post that is well written, with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar, is given more credence than one that is badly written. Even if I don’t agree with the content or the views of the poster, there is still a respect for the person who has made the effort to write properly.
All spelling mistakes are highlighted in the ‘post reply’ window, so what is so hard about right-clicking on the word to correct it? It’s the fact that someone can’t be bothered to do it that bothers me the most. Many dyslexic people produce well written work because they take the trouble to use spell checks and correct their work. It’s called making an effort.
As for not even being able to spell their own job – says it all really. I’d suggest they keep their heads down and stay where they are because if it’s spelled wrongly on their CV they’re unlikely to get another one. | |
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/14/2011 12:41:02 PM |
All spelling mistakes are highlighted in the ‘post reply’ window,
Are they? Not in mine they're not.
A post that is well written, with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar, is given more credence than one that is badly written
why? Being able to spell is not a sign of higher intelligence.
It’s the fact that someone can’t be bothered to do it that bothers me the most
I guess we are all bothered by different things - personally I can not abide pedants who take delight in nit picking over every syllible typed on an unimportant forum used purely to pass the time recreationally. I am not applying for a job - if I were - I'd check my spelling - here it just doesn't matter to me. As long as people can understand what is being said - the fact that the "i" might be before or after the "e" doesn't bother me in the slightest. | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 12:45:21 PM | All spelling mistakes are highlighted in the ‘post reply’ window,
Not in mine there not either
the way some may rush what they post on here including the spelling mistakes , may not be the same way they write their CV the forum is not an important document that they are filling in or an important letter they are replying to .
if it’s spelled wrongly on their CV
shouldnt that be!! spelt wrongly !!not spelled wrongly ,im probably wrong but i would have used spelt not spelled
(There is a squiggly red line underneath if it's wrong.)
a red squiggly line doesnt come up for me if i make a spelling mistake
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Posted: 2/14/2011 12:55:43 PM | | Phaonmneal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid, Aoccdrnig To A Rscheearch Sudty Dnoe At Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, It Deosn’t Mttaer In Waht Oredr The Ltteers In A Wrod Are Wirtten in, The Olny Iprmoatnt Tihng Is Taht The Frist And Lsat Ltteers Be In The Rghit Pclae Aamgnizg ins’t it. The Rset Can Be A Taotl Mses And You Can Sitll Raed It Wouthit A Porbelm. Tihs Is Bcuseae The Huamn Mnid Deos Not Raed Ervey Lteter By Istlef, But The Wrod As A Wlohe. Amzanig Huh? Yaeh And I Awlyas Tghuhot Slpeling Was Ipmorantt! | |
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Posted: 2/14/2011 1:04:53 PM |
All spelling mistakes are highlighted in the ‘post reply’ window, Are they? Not in mine they're not.
There is a squiggly red line underneath if it's wrong.
A post that is well written, with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar, is given more credence than one that is badly written why? Being able to spell is not a sign of higher intelligence.
Intelligence was never mentioned, please see below:
It’s the fact that someone can’t be bothered to do it that bothers me the most
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It’s called making an effort.
The question was asked and that was my answer, that's all.
personally I can not abide pedants who take delight in nit picking over every syllible [sic] typed on an unimportant forum
That's fine, that's up to you and in any case, I've not noticed anyone nit picking over every syllable, so it shouldn't be a problem really, it's just a matter of opinion.
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shouldnt that be!! spelt wrongly !!not spelled wrongly ,im probably wrong but i would have used spelt not spelled
Spelled is correct - spelt is simply the way in which the word is pronounced.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar…
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Pud78
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/14/2011 11:57:48 PM |
Spelled is correct - spelt is simply the way in which the word is pronounced.
I agree spelled is correct but so is spelt, it is the common verb for the act of spelling and in my opinion more accurate.
This forum too me is a haven I relax to and don't want my brain to ache so would much rather posts that I can read easily and quickly and get the writers point, how it is spelt and the grammar aren't that important to me providing those basics are met. | |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 3:03:50 AM | | must admit if i receive a message and the spelling is incorrect .... it does put me off ... they could be tall dark and handsome and it would still put me off .... as i said i make the odd error but mainly due to not being able to find my specs | |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 3:20:00 AM | I would imagine that someone of a similar mind would be happy to woo her. If nothing else, she is working and can get her hands on drugs!!!!!
I do read profiles and am not led by looks. If the handsomest of men had what seems to me an empty headed profile such as your example. Then I would realise that he would find me very irritating as well I would him. Had he contacted me I would politely reply a thank you but not suited.
It is a case of different planets and each to their own.
But then I also click off if someone boasts of posh house, being monied and fast cars. | |
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Posted: 2/15/2011 3:26:08 AM | | I agree that spelling should be less important. But if someone text speaks or quickly type something I can't make sense of then I assume they aren't really bothered. | |
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Posted: 2/16/2011 6:45:23 AM | I agree with the above - its obvious when its a typo - and this is supposed to be fun - so we dont want brain ache going over every word and worrying about the POF grammar police - but .......... it does make you wonder when you get messages like " u iz well hot innit " or " sum1 shuld call da police cause u iz so peng" - I recieved that message yesterday - Im not even sure what that means - let alone consider replying to a message like that!
I confess to using text speak occasionally using abbreviations like LOL etc... but when I see launguage (if that is the appropriate word for it) like in the profile that the OP shared with us - then it just makes me assume that they are either 12 or stupid - or both! | |
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cc7up
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Msg: 124 | |
| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/18/2011 3:20:23 AM | [Joke] Ronnie Barker - aparently the bbc received no complaints at all.
This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.
Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot.
At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered. The sugly isters were right bugly astards.. One was called Mary Hinge, and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible huckers; they had fetty sweet and fatty swannies.
The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but
the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.
Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared. Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks. The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise, there would be a cucking falamity.
At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when suddenly the clock struck twelve. "Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.
The very next day, the prandsome hince knocked
on Rindercella's door and the sugly isters let him in.. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let
off a fig bart. "Who's fust jarted?" asked the prandsome hince. "Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge.
When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.
Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and
a hig bard on. He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.
Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a follen swanny! | |
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| Spelling, or lack thereof these days
Posted: 2/19/2011 12:51:05 AM | I wont message anyone who doesnt bother to proof read their profile for spelling mistakes. I dont like this text talk either. We are adults, not kids.
I am sure that if someone filled in an application form for a job or wrote a CV, they wouldnt use text talk as it gives an impression of laziness and an inability to spell words correctly. | |
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