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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 8:40:06 AM | im so glad you are all perfect in any and every way.
im dyslexic and i have been to college and own my own bussiness i love to chat and its hard enough to find nice people out there that dont judge on spellings ect. i find myself asking a few questions
1 einstein was a wonderful scientist would you judge him ?
2 if i was blonde with big boobs would you be asking for my cv?
3 everyone deserves a chance, we are obviously all single eles we wouldnt be here.
so lighten up and relax and enjoy people because we all have faults. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:20:44 AM | For heaven's sake, you all need to GROW the F...K up!! Just because a person is not a good speller or an inept typist, doesn't mean that he/she is not worth giving consideration. Remember, you are on a FREE site, where anything is possible!
So making choices is now an infantile task, is it? I disagree. A woman's ability to spell and/or type is--to me--an indication of how well we might get along in person. It is a choice and it is my choice to make. I do not have to agree with you and you certainly do not agree with me.
Whether I choose to consider dating a woman with no picture, for another example, or one who spells well is MY choice. It is not a matter of a "grow the f..k up" mentality. It is a choice. Others may be making judgements about intelligence or age or attention to detail or whatever, but I make no judgement other than her ability to communicate at my level. And that, as they say, is why the Internet is so fun. There are so many choices available. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:27:52 AM | 1 einstein was a wonderful scientist would you judge him ?
2 if i was blonde with big boobs would you be asking for my cv?
Madtigger, I think you are confusing "judge" with "choose." We make choices all the time. Whether I want to date a bad speller, a woman who has no picture, or a woman who smokes is my choice. Yes, there are wonderful people in each of those categories just like there are wonderful men who are inconsiderate, who smell bad, who cannot manage money, and who want to date more than one woman at a time. This is the Internet. You can choose who YOU want to date and YOU set the guidelines. All of us do the same. Some of us want good spellers, others want non-smokers, some want both.
As the father of a dyslexic child, I understand first-hand the frustration of that affliction, so I empathize with your predicament. However, to the two quoted points you made, I fail to see how they connect to the topic of Dating Experiences. This is a dating site and I don't recall anyone saying that he or she is perfect. I studied Einstein's life in some detail while I was in grad school. He was a "wonderful" scientist, as you put it, and I would love to have a dinner with him, but I would not date him. Again, my choice.
And your implied generalization that all men love blonde women with big boobs offends me. The answer to that question is no. I would not be asking for your CV. Or a date.
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:36:02 AM | Fire Fox....Yes Sir, I have already had my wrist slapped for that, it is indeed grammar and not grammer but I stayed behind in class and I've completed 400 lines. I will hand it in tomorrow.
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
I will not spell grammar as grammer
Hehe I noticed someone else spelt grammer and they were professing to have a BA in English Literature....ooooops. Anyway as I said in my orginal post, prefuct speeling and grommar isn't everything! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:46:14 AM |
Hehe I noticed someone else spelt grammer and they were professing to have a BA in English Literature....ooooops. Anyway as I said in my orginal post, prefuct speeling and grommar isn't everything!
Yes, well they must have xeroxed a copy of someone else's diploma. 
As for the gal who claims dyslexia as an excuse? Doesn't fly. Dyslexia has nothing to do with bad grammar or spelling.
Lots of people misuse words such as to, too, and two, or your and you're. There are lots of other examples.
It's called "I was asleep through elementary (primary) school". | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:58:42 AM | Of course dyslexia is an excuse! The people I know with dyslexia are so frightened of the written word, they simply switched off in school. Now, I think that is the schools fault for not dealing with it in the correct way, the UK schools system failed alot of people in the past, hopefully things have changed now.
(I apologise in advance if I have offended anybody with spelling and grammar mistakes in the above paragraph)) | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 12:17:32 PM | | It's one thing to have a few typos (although there is spell check - LOL!), but it's entirely another to have multiple grammatical errors to the point where I think someone might have been hanging off the wrong end of a pick up for too long. Honestly, if I get an e-mail from someone who clearly has a very different background, i.e., lack of high school education at the least, it wouldn't be worthwhile to pursue because ultimately there just wouldn't be anything in common. It's not snobbishness to want to spend time with someone that you would have a similar educational background with. It's just common sense. While lust or chemistry might get you somewhere at the start, it just won't go for the long haul. Why get involved with someone you couldn't see yourself spending a lot of time with? Seems to me to be a recipe for both people getting hurt. Relationships are hard enough without starting one off on such unequal footing that it doesn't stand a chance of working out long-term. I think my biggest pet peeve is where there is no punctuation whatsoever. Just spaces. No capitalization, no commas, no periods, just run on sentences with no start or stop. Another peeve is all caps. To me, if someone can't take the time to at least try, it makes me wonder what they do try at. I make typos - everyone does, but I would hope someone would at least make an effort to try to get their prose in some sort of logical order so that the reader can make sense of it. It's almost to the point that it people use phrases like "fr u" or pat little abbreviations, especially mixed up with a thousand little emotion faces, it's too frustrating to try to weed though it and I wonder at the lack of courtesy. So - I may get flamed, but I generally just delete if they are really bad. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 12:51:51 PM | Simple misspellings or a punctuation mark here and there... OK. I'm not perfect either! But really, if it's the first time someone has ever communicated with me, than I appreciate them at least taking the time to spell check and - most importantly - use decent english. If a man cannot at least pretend to sound intelligent in a 3 sentence email, then it's a deal breaker for me.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 1:16:14 PM |
Simple misspellings or a punctuation mark here and there... OK. I'm not perfect either! But really, if it's the first time someone has ever communicated with me, than I appreciate them at least taking the time to spell check and - most importantly - use decent english. If a man cannot at least pretend to sound intelligent in a 3 sentence email, then it's a deal breaker for me.
Miss robi? I'm with you on that one. If there are a few mistakes or fractured sentences, I overlook it and chalk it up to rushing and all that, but if it is consistently unintelligible I must then assume that this person may not be very conversational in person on a comfortable level. In that case it may well be a deal breaker.
BTW most chat sites and forum boards have a built-in spell check (this one does), so why does it seem that people ignore it at times? | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 4:55:35 PM | Dear little fishes,
I really can't see any point in all this angry fin flapping and gill gurgling over grammar and spelling. Either you take notice of bad spelling from a possible date or you ignore it. So what. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that most lady fishes who accept poor spelling would reject facial hair. No woman is without some prejudice, because if they were so easily pleased then it would take them 1 day after posting their profile to answer the first of many replies they do receive here and organise a date and then that’s their romance sorted. But as some of you ladies who, while vehemently decrying the right of others to select by language ability, are still on the site and still looking for a date, you obviously are rejecting men for failing to meet some exacting specifications of your own choice.
But you are perhaps missing the point most of us pro spellers are making, it’s the obvious lack of care taken over writing a profile or opening email that to us suggests you aren’t that bothered. Perhaps sloppy spelling and sentence formation equals sloppy housekeeping and personal hygiene or a “who cares” attitude to punctuality and bill paying. Who knows, but with all the fishes in the sea, we can afford to cast again.
love and peace
hug someone new today 
regards from 40, defender of the faith, the weak and the ridiculous. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 6:37:26 PM | BTW most chat sites and forum boards have a built-in spell check (this one does), so why does it seem that people ignore it at times?
Where is it?! All I've seen is a dictionary search option. Please, please, puleeease tell me where the spell checker is?
Whether I choose to consider dating a woman with no picture, for another example, or one who spells well is MY choice. It is not a matter of a "grow the f..k up" mentality. It is a choice.
Exactly. It's about personal preference and choice, not about being mean spirited because we prefer one thing over another. This is the same argument I see in the forums all the time..."Why aren't nice guys given a chance?" "Why aren't big women given a chance?" "Why aren't single moms given a chance?" It is everyone's personal choice to make regarding what they prefer and what they don't prefer. I don't complain because the fact that I smoke will cause some men to not want to date me. So what! It's their choice to make. Please, for the love of God, stop whining about people who might not choose to date you because you aren't good with spelling, English, etc. Just move on to the next person. Doh! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:42:32 PM | You are so right on miss spelled words, especially the word of "tongue." I have seen it spelled "tounge" so many times I wish I had a dollar for each time I have seen it on a site spelled this way. I am speaking of people with degrees, good positions in a company and they still can't spell a simple word like "tongue." I think I am missing something.
Oh, my other pet peeve word is "receive." How many people have noticed that word misspelled so many times on billboards, signs, etc.
Thanks for letting me express my view on misspellings. I attended a Catholic elementary school with the old fashioned nuns, where if we misspelled a word that meant writing it at least 100 times till we got it right. Now I thank Sister So and So, for her help with spelling words correctly since I am older.LOL | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/8/2008 10:54:26 PM | I have to say I'm truly amazed at how many emails I get from men who really do not know how to spell the most basic words!! I have to be honest, it's really starting to irritate me.
It's not just their messages either, it's their whole profile. I just read one that I had to go over several times to try and understand what he was saying (and I'm still scratching my head!!) It's not just spelling either, it's basic grammar as well. I know I might sound mean, but how do these people pass school??
At the end of the day it's another choice or preference really, no I'm not going to date someone who doesn't know how to spell honest (one guy spelt it host!!??) or their, they're and there, we're and where, coming (not cumming) etc etc etc  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 7/9/2008 12:53:40 AM |
if they don't know the difference between were, where, wear and ware, then I don't bother. It gets too difficult to figure out what they're trying to say.
I just finished a bachelor of biomedical science with first class honours…I still confuse “where” and “were” all the time. It’s not a subconscious mistake or a typo, I just always forget which is which ha ha. And it’s trivl anyway, and anyone who wants to hate me for it can go f@#c themselves he he :) Maybe the problem is that you’re a little too easily annoyed, yeah? And maybe if you really honestly find it hard to interpret the messages because of a tiny little mistake like that, it doesn’t say too much for your own intelligence :). Ha ha, maybe I’m being a little mean, but oh well. lol.
Oh look I miss spelled the word “trivial”, and i started some sentences with the word "and"…I hope I didn’t piss off any intolerant people ha ha! | |
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