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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 5:02:03 AM |
It has even become a deal breaker with me with some men, since it is an indication of intelligence (or lack of). Vixeneyes.
How presumptuous of you miss. Is it possible it is the failing of the school system or laziness of the individual? A rather broad intelligence brush stroke on your part me thinks.
It bothers me too as it is my first language, but I certainly would not paint everyone with the same (intelligence) (or lack of) brush that you and many others do.
Just my thoughts.
I thank you. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 1:42:42 PM | I m afraid I don't agree with you at all.
It depends on what you re looking for in a man.
Typing errors are certainly allowed..I do some myself as I'm in a hurry....
I am interested in an intelligent ,educated guy,who can converse with me over all subjects and doesnt look at me like I ve just committed a crime,because I said a word or concept he didn't understand.
A man who cannot spell is an illiterate or close to it,he 's carried those probs with him since his primary school,he was lazy enough not to wish to improve himself later on.. he certainly hasn't bothered to educate himself or had he read enough ,he wouldn't spell so poorly.
This type of man doesn't stimulate me at all...
If he s good looking and sweet ,but can t spell with all the presumable consequences,it' s guaranteed that after the initial enthusiasm,attraction and sex,the thing will stop there...and you ll certainly hear something like:"But who do you think you are ,woman?"
This is an opinion tied up to my profession, and life experience.One cannot prejudge the feelings, the amiability ,the sensibility and all the good qualities of a man by his mispelling,and I wouldnt do that.But I can certainly predict that he has a poor education,doesn 't feed my mind enough, and will bore me to death already in our first date.
I'll give his email a "thanks for the attention" and let it go with that. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 3:56:25 PM | AH.......... It must be nice to be so PERFECT like some of you here.
What is even more laughable, is that some of the replies advocating to not answer the e-mails, is riddled with bad grammar!
If I can get the meaning of the conversation, I'll e-mail back. Some people who cannot communicate well, I have found to actually be very intelligent people.
Why don't you proper and prissy " suburb groupies" open up an account on Match.com? After all, you feel that you are so much better than the "common folk" here, isn't a free site a little beneath your high standards?
Grammar is not always an indicator of intelligence.
Arrogance at it's worst!
Tom | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 6:36:07 PM | Forgive me, Tom. I couldn't resist:
AH.......... It must be nice to be so PERFECT like some of you here.
What is even more laughable, is that some of the replies advocating to not answer the e-mails, is riddled with bad grammar!
If I can get the meaning of the conversation, I'll e-mail back. Some people who cannot communicate well, I have found to actually be very intelligent people.
Why don't you proper and prissy " suburb groupies" open up an account on Match.com? After all, you feel that you are so much better than the "common folk" here, isn't a free site a little beneath your high standards?
Grammar is not always an indicator of intelligence.
Arrogance at it's worst!
Tom
Let me edit:
"AH.......... It must be nice to be so PERFECT like some of you here.
What is even more laughable is that some of the replies advocating to not answer the e-mails are riddled with bad grammar!
If I can get the meaning of the conversation, I'll e-mail back. Some people, who cannot communicate well, I have found to actually be very intelligent people.
Why don't you proper and prissy " suburb groupies" open up an account on Match.com? After all, you feel that you are so much better than the "common folk" here, isn't a free site a little beneath your high standards?
Grammar is not always an indicator of intelligence.
Arrogance at its worst!
Tom"
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If you're going to criticize someone else's bad grammar, it helps to be good at it yourself.
However, I'm with you on the fact that grammar is not always an indicator of intelligence. The indicator is the attitude behind the wish to correct, and I did this just to make a gentle point.
I hope it will be taken in the kindest of spirits, as that is how I intend to convey it. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 6:46:42 PM | I tend to agree with the majority here. I'll excuse one or maybe two spelling/grammar errors, however, if I receive an email, leading up to me reviewing someone's profile, and finding out that they have vast spelling/grammar errors, then I, as well, will most likely Not respond.
Communication is the key in any relationship/friendship. I feel that if the person is either too lazy to notice that POF has little red lines under words it thinks are wrong, or they are just not educated past the 3rd grade level, then I as well would find it difficult to communicate with them.
Although it may seem critical or extreme, I feel that one's first impression is always the most important; and since we are not on the spot here, but are comfortable and have plenty of time to think of things to write, then I feel that one should at least have something said that is understandable.
CowTrucker
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 9:06:10 PM | Hey- if you wanna be picky - no problem by me ; you have to live with it....
Personally, I don't care that much, although I'm considered to know better and know how to write and edit very well, thank-you....
I test high and am considered to know how to write well if I deign to...I don't care that much. I look for general knowledge, general comprehension and vocabulary which I consider to be a rarer find that the the nuts and bolts of grammar and sentence construction. Oh, almost forgot... basic questions like "Do I like him ?" BTW, when I was going to university it annoyed me no end that I was stuck in the English class of *6* ( out of 30,o00+) with editors and professional writers, etc- I just don't care *that much*! If you infer from this that I dated others- you be right! - whatever....
...did I say I don't care? Have a cyber-beer. er=0> | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 9:29:25 PM | It doesn't bother me is someone makes a typo since I make them. Now if they they make the same typo 5 times in one email it makes me wonder. 
Since I've been online, which has been quite a number of years, I have noticed that a lot of people don't know when to use the following words;
then-than
too-two-to
there-their- they're
were-we're
your-you're
It used to bother me but I don't even pay attentioin to it any more. OK I have two admit their has been more then once I wanted too tell some people "your an idiot" but I was to nice too tell them since were all here for fun!!!! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 9:45:20 PM | "well i personllay dnot wrory abuot it, i maen look at my spelilng and gramemr we do live in a age of text masseging and we all end using the text massege method at some stgae lol ."
Gee, these purposefully misspelled posts are ALWAYS s-o-o-o-o-o--o funny. (At least, they were the first 4,204,285 times people tried them.) Thanks for helping to cull the herd of choices! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/5/2007 10:54:15 PM | This thread amuses me greatly. Some of the most highly paid professionals can't spell, write or punctuate to save their lives. I have worked for lawyers for over 20 years and most of them couldn't begin to communicate with their clients if not for their assistants typing their work and editing whatever they decide to reel off on their own computers. On a daily basis, I've had to have nurses and medical office assistants tell me what the doctor's clinical notes say because they are entirely illegible.
We also need to think about the fact that we are hearing from people who are a helluva lot better with our language than we are with theirs. In the melting pot of our countries, we really need to consider that English may not be the writer's first language.
I don't care about typos and grammar... I care about the spirit running beneath the words. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/6/2007 5:37:08 AM | In the melting pot of our countries, we really need to consider that English may not be the writer's first language.
That is a very good point to consider. I for one can be more attracted to someone if it appears they are from another place where their first language is not English. It is usually easy to tell as they tend to be fairly consistent in how they write and use the language. I take it sort of like actually hearing their accent which I imagine can be cute and sexy. Or something like that.
In a previous career I would often be the "translator" for programmers and others from places like India and China. Not because I could speak their native languages. But simply because I could understand their "broken" English better than most others. And to me their English wasn't actually "broken." I understood they actually think differently and for some the English language itself can be an impediment because it is created and maintained on a different way of viewing the world. Just because I learned English first doesn't mean it is the best language or the best way to view the world. Others' views based on their native languages, because of their different viewpoints, can add to our knowledge of the world if we allow it.
I suppose I notice gross misspellings and misuse of words most. But I know we all make mistakes as well. It's just where a person is consistent in their mistakes and/or misuses that it begins to bother me and make communication more difficult. On the other hand, I never cared that much for the strict rules of grammar. I prefer to be much more flexible with grammar and allow for that when I am reading another's writing. I've noticed some more publicly esteemed authors of books and articles seem to be rather flexible with grammar as well.
I care about the spirit running beneath the words.
I must agree. If we can perceive the "spirit" beneath the words then communication is happening! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/6/2007 5:57:16 AM | If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/6/2007 5 20 AM
"well i personllay dnot wrory abuot it, i maen look at my spelilng and gramemr we do live in a age of text masseging and we all end using the text massege method at some stgae lol ."
((((((Gee, these purposefully misspelled posts are ALWAYS s-o-o-o-o-o--o funny. (At least, they were the first 4,204,285 times people tried them.) Thanks for helping to cull the herd of choices )))))))
Gee take a chill chill pill mr "happy"  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/6/2007 4:39:57 PM | I reply to all emails I get....but in this case, I agree that I would check their profile and see how it is worded there too. It is a pet peeve of mine to see words used wrong (ie. there and their) I am not the best speller, but if I am doing someting important like a profile that hopefully a lot of people will read, I try to look up the words I am unsure about. It seems to me that most people don't even proofread their profiles because some mistakes are so obvious. So, after all this rambling....If their profile is written bad and so is their email, I would probably send a "no thanks" but I would respond, as I think it is rude not to. I hate a read and deleted with no response so I would not do it to someone else.
Vickie | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/8/2007 12:15:58 PM | If some of you got turned off by mispelled and bad grammar then you all also get turn off by ugly pictures? Give people a chance, we are all not prefect and if they are not educated its not thier choice at times, maybe they dont have the money like some of us have. I did not go to school here in the United States and if I mispelled some words and used bad grammar I apologized, some of us not born intelligent, dont be so critical of people.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/8/2007 1:05:27 PM | Another one those tread ever so lightly topics is a way not make one look shallow.
Do we always look for the negative in people, from bad spellers, to the what evers we all seem want perfect and there is no such thing. Personally I'm not the best writer or speller in txt mode but I do let my voice be heard. I can 't type tpe as good as many but I don't care. maybe som of give more praises than telling faults they might see one might heart. Education a wonderful thing but all honestly some the best people and smart people didnt have higher education. so key thing is did they apply themselves.
so honenstly even professionals write so fast you can't read the handwriting yet we like them.
But look at the heart and the good in people than looking things to limit you in happiness with them.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/8/2007 3:53:31 PM | My take and I'll make it quick.
Granted we are not writing for the newspaper or Time magazine. Mistakes happen. I try my best to correct them, just like on IM's we type and sometimes one letter missing no big deal. What I don't consider good is when someone write 'dat' instead of that as an example. But anything else is game.
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 12/8/2007 3:57:15 PM | I know a lot of people use "short hand" when chatting but it should be left to people that are well known to each other and to cell phones or something like that. I even type the whole word when I am on Yahoo IM. Now if I get to know someone really well then the "short hand' may be OK but I still prefer the whole thing.
There is to much room for error when typing something in already. There is no need adding one more problem to the mix. If anyone looks at my profile, which is pretty dang long anyway, I typed all that in and spell checked it to boot. Since I use Linux instead of winders, it spell checks automatically anyway. It underlines in red what it doesn't have in the dictionary. I'm sure all computers have a spell checker. I know a friend of mine has a little paper clip thing, it looks sort of stupid to me but . . .
All that said, I will respond if I can figure out what they are saying but if I can't figure it out, I don't see a way to build a relationship/friendship when I can't understand what they are saying. So why bother.
This post has been read three times, spell checked as I typed, and it looks OK for a forum post. Nobody is perfect. 
Dale
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