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| | If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond? Page 38 of 53 (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53) | | Actually, if someone claims to have a graduate level education, is native to the US, but can't seem to spell or put a sentence together using correct grammar, I assume they've posted a bogus profile. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/28/2008 5:38:22 PM |
'm not going to read all these posts as the few I skimmed just made me feel bad.
Let me instead offer this, Cher, Disney, Steven Jobs, Edison, Patton, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Branson, Sir Winston Churchill, Scott Adams, Bell, Henry Ford, and Whoopie along with millions of others have dyslexia.
Good thing Jefferson, Einstein and Kennedy didn't have to look here for friendship and dates.
Unless ninety percent of people on this website are dyslexic then I don’t think it’s the problem. Besides, dyslexia isn’t a permanent condition and can be alleviated with the correct learning and teaching methods. In actuality, people with dyslexia should be the ones most concerned with the correctness of spelling and grammar on this website as they are the ones who are going to suffer the worst when trying to read broken messages.
I don’t want to talk too profusely on the subject but I would like to create a comparison between dyslexics and paraplegics: if you lost the ability to walk (or never had it), would you lie down in the street and tell people to carry you or find ways to live around your condition independently?
I truly believe that anyone can use a spellchecker. It’s the poor speller’s wheelchair and should be used by anyone who doubts their spelling. Grammar can also be checked but it’s a more difficult subject to learn and I’m happy (usually) as long as people don’t make obvious or purposeful errors. It doesn’t help anyone to ignore the basics of grammar and leave out things such as capital letters and full stops, or to use sequences of commas instead of periods for ellipses; these are simple and obvious errors which can break up sentences and confuse a reader. If you’re writing so that others may read your efforts, it’s in your best interest not to confuse them.
The main reason for the poor spelling and grammar by the patrons of this website is laziness. Everyone here has the ability to write correctly but most do not. Instead of using spellcheckers, practising the basics of grammar and taking time to read through their messages before submitting them, they choose to pass the responsibility of comprehension on to their readers. This might be fine to begin with but it quickly becomes tiresome and, as the messages on this thread suggest, a lot of people are going to decide to ignore the messages altogether, eventually or immediately depending on their level of patience.
I would also like to add that typing ability is not a valid excuse. If you managed to log on to the Internet, find this website and register to use it, then you can certainly replace an incorrectly typed word for a correct one. No one will thank you for it but no one will ever create a thread titled ‘If someone emails you with correctly spelled words and good grammar, do you respond?’ either – hopefully. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 1:47:20 AM | | Not necessarily if they were educated in a country whose standards are not the same as ours. I have three degrees by the way and have met some formally educated individuals who are book smart but have absolutely no common sense. Do not equate book learning with success since some very successful people have succeeded without benefit of continuing education. Intelligence is not learned, it is an inherent trait present at birth. Of course, some waste it by refusing to do anything with it while others make the most of it but it would be wrong to assume that just because you have not made written communication a priority in your life that you are lacking in intelligence. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 2:02:17 AM | | If there is a homeless guy and he isin't super hot should I give him a dollar?? its kinda like that, unless you realy think it's important because your career and lively hood depends on how your b/f writes and talks. I dont know maybe it's importnat to some people but, personally I think there are worst things to worry about | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 4:12:46 AM | Absolutely not. I can handle no punctuation or capitalizations, but if he is just texting me through email or IM...I don't have an interest in that type of relationship. I would like to know that we can have a conversation without needing the texter's dictionary to decipher half (if not all) of the conversation. I am serious. We all know how to read and recheck our spelling before we hit the send button. Even during the IM's you don't have to send right away. Take the time to spellcheck and then send. Accidentally mixing a couple letters up is one thing but IMO TXT is LAZY and mizspll thinz on pirpis is evn worse.
 If you think I was worth the time to email. I would expect I am worth the extra effort of spell check. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 4:41:11 AM | I sure am happy to see that so many of you feel the way I do about this....You can imagine what it does to me...an EDITOR.....I actually cringe. I try to be understanding, as several of you have mentioned....English as a second language is difficult...sometimes even as a FIRST language. Text talk is LAZY.....
I send out too many " Thanks, but no thanks....I don't see where we have enough in common to begin exploring a relationship." A few errors here and there, but I agree with the posters who mentioned that spell check is always nearby and people only have ONE opportunity to make a FIRST impression.
However, I must admit that it goes a long way in assisting me to find the foreign scammers...(may they never get smart enough to remove all their obvious errors).
Again, if they have stated that they are a "Native American"???? and have a Graduate Degree, I expect, at least, the ability to converse in readable English, and/or the intelligence to have their writing translated..... Personally, I don't think they KNOW what a real "Native American" is. It's definitely not, born in Italy and raised in England...
I don't see any little red lines in here, so I guess I've corrected all my errors....Even as an Editor, I'm not perfect! But, then again, at MY age, I only have to be an 8...10 is not necessary anymore.
Fondly,
KNITTIN KITTEN | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 10:53:17 AM | I do care about the first message that someone sent to me. The interesting thing is that many men send out a very simple message constructed by a few sentences that include bad grammars and misspellings. I never suffer reading this kind of messages, deleting them is the best thing I like to do.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 6:17:31 PM | | Some persons do not have a lot to say, or my not wish to "go on" with the subject for a full paragraph to get the point across. If you limit the ones that you will respond to by first judging them from a few words in a message in the forums or a first contact email massage then you may be limiting your contacts to those who are very good a typing and not much else. | |
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Posted: 9/29/2008 6:30:53 PM |  A Beautiful Russian Gal writes to me all the time and she sends really great Photos too!!! 
Her Spelling is 100% PERFECT !!!  She just has NO CLUES how english is spoken, so even though her spelling is PERFECT, I have NO CLUES as to weather she wishes to screw me to death, or she wants me to show her the town...   | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 6:36:30 PM | I received a HORRIBLY misspelled initial contact from a man, times two. He obviously forgot that he had already emailed me.
Since it was obviously a 'cut and paste' first response, I 'cut and pasted' it back to him, after fixing his numerous grammatical errors.
I told him to please save that version, and use it in the future.
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Posted: 9/29/2008 7:48:35 PM |  Everyone was created equil, some are Great Looking, and others are very smart, some are FAT, some are Tall, I don't care if she's a Cluts,Can't Spell,Eats Crackers in Bed,or even if she Snores like a Lumber Jack, all I ask is that she be happy with me... 
Complaining only serves to push potential Mates away, have we not been alone long enough ???  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 8:02:49 PM | | Well not every one can an expert. Like me some may not have taken typeing,and may not be the best spellers. So dose that mean im less of a person for it? Dose that mean i would not be a good mate ,friend,or potential love intrest. I hope that i would not be that anal about the world around me. But that just my thoughts on it. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 8:11:16 PM | I do respond, because I understand that grammar and orthography don't come easy to everybody, but if a guy goes the extra mile using spell check to send me an e-mail I definitely add a couple of good points to his chart. (But I have to admit, it kind of bothers me that sometimes I write better english than people that claim to be engineers or doctors, when I didn't go to school here and have been communicating in english for no more than 8 years...)  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 8:20:04 PM | | I have sent emails and posts with misspelled words, but thats because I forget to proof read, not that I can't spell. Sometimes my grammer isn't so great too. Nobody is perfect....Although if they don't want to respond for that reason. I say they are missing out on the gretatest gyu in teh wrodl!!!! | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/29/2008 8:22:46 PM | | If I read a profile with misspelled words or bad grammar , I pass on by , that's no being picky , just being realistic , you want from others what you would expect them to want from you.....I also pass on profiles that always have the same old cliches " walks on the beach " , " meet for coffee " and so on , Give me a break ! give a profile some thought , how can you expect to " find " someone , when you can't even talk honestly about yourself ?......... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 9/30/2008 9:09:52 AM | I know that I personaly have becum "THE" biggest offender of ur subject!!!!! Even worse when it cums to handwritting~ I say go easy on em.....
It is what is in their HEART and SOUL that matters!!!!! Dont u think? ie: U have just receive dire information...u have 20days to live...will it matter that they misspell words and have bad grammar...and yet they are there for u...until the very end?
I hope that I helped in sum way.... take care! | |
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