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Joined: 10/26/2007
Msg: 153 | |
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csfly
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Joined: 10/26/2007
Msg: 154 | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 8:33:39 AM | dear everyone... oh geesus ..shuckeroonies and all that crapitsky... oh oh the town has just re-sieved another enema.... scotties little softies are good quacker pecker uppers too.... nah leave the little white fur balls outtah this one...
Okay..............................
Pampered chefless pooch and thank goodness and badness you don't "give it the dog a bone" .... has busted another neuron without a license to gene splice .. so much for stem cell pergorative purrrjury.... .. hurray hurrah and yop me another ditty from Walt Whitty.... YOUR QUOTE IN DITTY DANDY-NOT-LION LANDED EARTH IMMIGRANT STATUS cah cah candy,,.... well maybe they had some soft music and candles as well ...
okay proper splanguage splunkendy flunkedy
ok ... ok...ok your quote
"Even the best spellers out there will probably occasionally make typing errors. "
NAH you gottah be yankin my whatwhoozy... and I bet they kick their own arses down enuncieville pencil land more sorrowfully than you are anyone else from the Nazi police can rectify for them... workin it all out with a pencil.. it has been a phrase I have never used till today.. I gotta get out and in more...... !!
Now I gottah ah ....scoot ... got an appointment to have my colons cleansed so I can pluck hairs till the write worm cums out of the can of whamb -bam -thankin-yah -spankin and yo-mammie toozies... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 8:51:36 AM | ... gimme a guy that can dance and sing .... and I mean really dance and sing... as long as his timing is succinct.... in all ways jk... ...oh yah ... or I will settle for a guy that can lighten the load .. yah that one above me there on this thread, yah the handsome dark haired one... ... you got it goin on dar'mistah... dyslexia who cares ?...you can lighten up and that is all YAH really need to do until the dance contest starts then .. try and trip me up..... and then it is lites out and the kettle boiled dry ... oh yah....
If any of the nazi spelling unit here on POF kinda like quantico profilers ... well if you ever use msn to chat .. the dictionary or a thesaurasus will not help you keep up with a very adept and concise massive internet lingo and the info hwy users or to your kids either in speed or abbreviated usage of words... this is how alot of frequent surfers chat so you would be stumbling around in net word collory binder blinders fo'sure .... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 10:23:22 AM | howbigisyourlove: Ive got to say, it wouldnt matter if I were on yahoo, MSN, some chat room or messenger service.....you are impossible to understand. You put so much babble and "internet lingo" in what youre saying that its nearly impossible to get your point! And you seem bent on replying to every post in this thread with an argument. Look, its a matter of personal preference. So you dont mind all the spelling errors, bad grammar and punctuation...we get it. No big deal to you, good for you...but at least admit that the rest of us are entitled to our personal preferences as well without being called nazis or profilers. And darlin, you can keep your "very adept and concise massive internet lingo" fetish alllll to yourself because its becoming rather annoying and quite immature, something a bunch of 13 year olds would resort to.  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 10:56:18 AM |
I think WHAT a person has to say is more important the HOW they say it. If bad grammar bugs me, that's my problem, not theirs. :-)
This is a logical fallacy. If you CANNOT understand what a person is writing, then WHAT they are trying to say is moot.
Spelling counts. For example, if a person intends to use the old saw "I will grin and bear it," it has an ENTIRELY different meaning than "I will grin and bare it." The first applies to a person with a problem who will make the best of the situation; the second is what a stripper says.
As far as it being "my" problem rather than the other person, it depends on how much that other person wants to get and keep my attention.
Anyone who reads the postings of the people in this forum should be able to see the importance of proper mechanics; some postings are like wading against the current in a rapidly flowing stream with ice floes in it; others are easy to read and understand.
Which would you REALLY like to read? | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:00:08 AM | Dear misplacedyankette... gees love the lingo in your name... hmmm
Just to clarify your content not your spelling .. I am not your "darlin ",so go patronize someone of lesser self esteem.
"And darlin, you can keep your "very adept and concise massive internet lingo" fetish alllll to yourself because its becoming rather annoying and quite
And PS .. I did not know I had an internet fetish for internet lingo. but now I am as horror-fied as fee and foe and one thumb up...
Okay your had your turn at me ... now back to our regular scheduled program after this short middle fingered message.....gottah get my spider wire into a new reel world... .. gonnah put a disney flick on and check out some of my other fetishes while you devour every space in my head so that I can have more space for your space ..K.. out and happy to be here .. oh yah | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:26:01 AM | howbigisyourlove:
I can see your love is big.......I think you are like me who like to and will always defend the underdogs.......even though the same ones will turn on us and bite our a$$es. Doesn't matter that it doesn't apply to us......maybe we should have lived in another era where there were more injustices to fight........... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:37:59 AM | Dear Gwendolyn .. again glad to see you are still watching reruns of the twilight zone .. me too only not in your dimension ....
"This is a logical fallacy." .. even though this is likely not a structurally sound sentence .. all I can say is I just stopped body slamming my gray matter off the wall and broke my Floyd disk.. now yah done it!!!
I have never laughed so hard since I began this journey to find out who eats the peanut off the top of the skippy "butter " first... okay okay your quote...which I may say makes me a strong advocate for stem cell research....
"Spelling counts. For example, if a person intends to use the old saw "I will grin and bear it," it has an ENTIRELY different meaning than "I will grin and bare it." The first applies to a person with a problem who will make the best of the situation; the second is what a stripper says."
Now I am not sure in what context you are using "saw" but are you related to anyone here or anyone in corporate headquarters for husquavarna,, ? anyway I vaguely remember but that is unimportant as he vaguely remembers too and it was his ass doin the sawing.... Okay Okay back onto your botched logic....
So in theory only two types of people "use the old saw" strippers and people , well I guess I gotta lesson in conjunction junction how's that functioning for yah today.... and are hookers hooked on phonics too.. and do strippers strip more than clothes and are shredders people who eat shredded wheat .. so many questions so little thyme??? and moot is mute when stirring eye of newt..... If you grow a grin and bare us all a sense of ho ho then strippers can get a head-you-k-shun and play ho hoe hold the payment event ..
What would "eye" like to read .. something more entertaining than proper grammar.. I think you should lighten up and get a good sense of hue more .. that means color and hee hee ... | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:51:23 AM | I actully Had a professor in college who said that if Stephen King or many popular authors of modern American literature were in his class, he would have flunked them. He finds errors in their works. Now that is a grammar and spelling nazi. I doubt he took into concideration, coloquialisms( please spare me from the ovens oh mercyful grammar nazi's if I spelled that wrong) or wether it was the writers intention to write from a different set of eyes.
I just think that as long as it is understandable, you should let it slide. I do when it comes to chatting with people. Now if I meet them or speak to them on the phone and I can't understand them. Then I bolt. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 11:55:21 AM | | On another note to the gramar and spelling nazis. If you recieved an email from the same man or woman, a week or so later, Would you forgive their transgretion of inpropper grammar or spelling if they sent you a propper email. Or would you still treat them as less than human. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 12:01:07 PM | IMO spelling and grammar and writing style (not typos, transpositions etc. - noone is immune to that) matters. I would not be too hard about improper use of the apostrophes and things of that nature. But when people use "there" instead of "their" and "hear" instead of "here"..hmmm...If I (a non-native English speaker/writer) could master the proper usage of those words and know the difference, I do not think it's too much to expect from people who grew up speaking and writing English (majority here).
The profiles with essays written in all caps or all small case (or no essays at all, just having a one-liner like " looking for a good women" ) and so on. Since I do read the profiles, I noticed that it often does correlate with stated interests, hobbies, occupation type and interests that are different from mine. It just tells me[ /b] personally that it is unlikely that we have a lot in common, and therefore will hardly be able to connect.. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 12:03:54 PM |
Bad grammar and spelling won't bother me if the sender has something interesting to say.
I agree, if the bulk of the message is coherent and well thought out, it is easy to overlook a few errors. We all have times when the hands are faster than the brain when typing." I'll take a side of substance, hold the slang please!" | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 12:08:43 PM | howbigisyourlove, I agree with the lady who said that you prove her point--amusingly so.
Now, could you rephrase the mess that you wrote in order for me to understand it WITHOUT wading through it four or five times? Life is too short to continue wasting time on trying to figure out what the hell you mean when you write these garbled postings. I have about 60 Comp I and II essays I need to read; I like to save my deciphering energy for them.
To the man who said his professor would have flunked Stephen King: Creative writing is not bound by the same rules as is writing essays--or forum postings. If I had King in a composition class, he would have not been writing fiction and would have had to adjust his style to pass. If it had been a creative writing class, he could have written away to his heart's content. Also, King's use of the language is deliberate, not accidental. He KNOWS what he is doing when he uses vernacular, sentence fragments, etc. In addition, if people could NOT understand what he writes, they wouldn't buy his work.
King writes things other than fiction, by the way. Read his commentary on the horror genre--the book is called the The Danse [sic] Macabre (I think that is the title, something close to it). The style is different because he is addressing a different audience. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 12:15:39 PM | | I think that english teachers sometimes are too jaded by grading papers to actullay care about what a person has to say. To equate intellegence or stupidity by spelling errors seems ok. Until you meet someone with 125 or higher I.Q. with dylexia and grew up dealing with ESL students as friends because I was the only natural english speaker in my class. Plus I do tend to type faster than I think when i am passionate over a subject. | |
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Joined: 10/26/2007
Msg: 170 | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 4:22:11 PM | I think some people have gone a bit far with the whole spelling nazi stuff. I think the original nature of the question for this thread was not a simple spelling error but instead an email with (as the other lady said) hear=here, mixing up are/is, there=theyre=their, etc.....not a simple spelling error. lighten up people...lol I cant imagine someone being so mean and insensitive that if they catch one or two spelling errors in an email, they would throw it out or not answer. Thats ludicrous. However if you get an email such as this:
hi there, I lik yer pitcher, yer pretty ladie, want talk? u read mine? anser please.
Thats more along the lines of what I, at least, meant...and yes this email was real, from a supposed English speaking person according to the profile that I did read (lol).  | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 4:49:20 PM | | I am thankful that anyone takes an interest in me enough to send a message in the 1st place, so I will at least give them the courtesy of a reply, even if it's just to say 'Thank you for your message." However, now that I see how many and what kinds of people get messages, I'm realizing that basically everybody gets messages no matter what, so I will try not to be as flattered in the future and may have to start ignoring the ones with bad grammar and/or anything else I don't like. | |
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| If someone emails you with misspelled words and bad grammar, do you respond?
Posted: 11/21/2007 6:28:28 PM | | This is a big thing for me. I practically dance in my seat when I read a profile that is well written. (I don't dance too often...) Seriously, read my profile. My father was on me all the time about spelling and grammar when I was growing up. I think a few posters mentioned someone not being able to further their education as a reason for using poor grammar and spelling. In my opinion, grammar and spelling are taught in our early education...not in college. I didn't go to college, but I speak and write very well. Maybe it's in my DNA, or maybe I just studied hard. I don't know. I just have a hard time getting past it, shallow or petty as it may be. | |
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