It does help if the post is understandable! Perhaps you could also request people to stop "sniping" at one another.

Edited by jc2 on 17/11/2010 at 15:48

I would like to reply as a dislectic.

I watched my father when I was a kid he was more dislectic than I, he would avoid writing anything at any cost, in the bank or oost office he would say to the teller can you fill it out for me i haven't got my glasses.

I decided not to go down that route, I write it even if it is wrong I use a spell checker if available but that does not always work as it can choose amarican spellin.

I have a neibour if I send him an Email He can say, that Email I did not understand it, I say to him do not read it literaly, listen to the words what do you think I ment.

I have no problem reading and understanding content and verry rarley see spelling mistakes.

but the main point I am not ashamed of it.

Didnt use spell check on this.

Rod

Your first post on this forum. Welcome - I think - but I've no idea what you're talking about as there is nothing emotional in any of the above posts! On this forum we try to take people as they are.

How ironic that post contained two spelling mistakes.

Well that would be very silly wouldn't it. It's good you're not going to do that.

Any more of that missy and you're in for some serious punishment.

:P

When we recruited school leavers , we automatically discraded those who could not spell or punctuate -unless they stood out for other reasons.

With lots of candidates, it was a fair and easy way to winnow out those too thick/lazy to get it right.

Shouldn't the topic title read 'let's not get existed'?

HJ doesn't seem to support an auto spelling checker. I often get letters mixed up and it''s not easy to spot these mistakes because you know what you intended to write and see what you expect to see!

Thank you Avant,

Well spoken

Thank you Avant,

Well spoken

I think that good grammar, spelling and punctuation are necessary when trying to communicate with others and saying that this does not matter too much, even on forums, is a cop out, to be honest.

I cannot abide bad grammar and today we hear far too much sloppy speech from our youngsters which makes one think just what will our future professionals such as lawyers and doctors sound like in, say, twenty year's time?

Of course we should be more tolerant with people, whom English is not their first language but for those not in this category, then there is no excuse.

A school not a million miles from where I live has recently employed people to check the reports teachers send to parents to make sure they're grammatically correct.

No joke.

That's unbelievable - it couldn't possibly happen in this country !

Except I can quite believe it's true - it's utterly ridiculous.

A school not a million miles from where I live has recently employed people to check the reports teachers send to parents to make sure they're grammatically correct.

No joke.

My point precisely, the system is not fit for purpose. It has even taught the Teachers badly in their native language. In the forum there is a degree of license for spelling and grammar. But in schools and in documents produced by Teachers, poor language skills are unforgivable. Cheers Concrete

'I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt ... '

Are these stickies not taking too much screen space these days? There's lot of them.

Just caught up with this. Hello Andrew-T, nothing wrong with being a pedant and maybe I should have used quotation marks around "we older folk" to illustrate the use of a phrase, but you did understand what was written I presume, so mission accomplished.

Remember, Wat Tyler led the Peasants Revolt. Which Tyler led the Pedants Revolt!!!!

Cheers Concrete

Couldn't agree more.

My spelling and grammar are shocking and don't mind people correcting my text as makes it easyer for people to understand :)

You spelt easier wrong! :-)

I dont mind the bad grammar or spelling (i'm not the most intelectual), its the text talk I dont like. I was goin 2 post the hole thing in txt toc but i dnt no it all.

Gary.

I can live with the bad spelling and grammar....providing the meaning is clear..I simply expect it on modern forums.

I accept too, that there are peeps that genuinely have problems with it.

But what's fascinating me right now is how our language is being changed/corrupted...this is an observation btw..not a whinge or moan.

The corruption of language has been constant for centuries.

But what has happened to the use of "th".?...now seemingly more and more redundant...eg. "fink"..(think).. fursday ..(Thursday) .."wiv"...(with) etc etc...now I know there are peeps that cannot help that...but is there an epidemic of short tongues..?

..and how has the letter "k" replaced the letter "g".?...as in somethink and nothink. (even worse...sumfink and nuffink..lol)....used to be somethinG and nothinG..

...and what about "would of"..?....as in "I would of thought.".that used to be "would have".?

...and it seems to have become the "norm" to start a sentence..or answer to a question with the word..."So"..?

Fascinating to an "old skool" git like me, educated in the 1960's.

It's the BBC's fault - they went all PC and abandoned "BBC English" which was their interpretation of King's/Queen's English - everyone could understand it and readily translate between their own local dialect/accent and BBC English.

Sadly, state schools seem to have abandoned it at around to same time.

Too many lefties in positions of influence!

Edited by RT on 10/08/2017 at 13:58

"But what has happened to the use of "th".?...now seemingly more and more redundant...eg. "fink"..(think).. fursday ..(Thursday) .."wiv"...(with) etc etc...now I know there are peeps that cannot help that...but is there an epidemic of short tongues..?

..and how has the letter "k" replaced the letter "g".?...as in somethink and nothink. (even worse...sumfink and nuffink..lol)....used to be somethinG and nothinG.."

Sometimes these are part of people's regional accents, sometimes just sloppy speech. But I haven't often seen it in writing. If people posted on here in text-speak, they wouldn't get much in the way of advice as most of us don't understand text-speak. They'd either go away or get the message.

In my view, aside from one or two comments (I do use IMO instead of in my opinion), text-speak (or is that txtspk?) should essentially stay in that medium. Posters who can't be bothered to take a few minutes more to compose a question or response that at least tries to be in proper English are, in my book, asking to be ignored. Most of them seem to me to be of the type (Millenials with an entitlement issue) who can't be bothered to do even a small amount of research and expect everyone else to do the work for them, even when its easy to hand on this very website. If they can't be bothered, why should we to give an reasonable, considered response? Those who at least try and are honest, will, even if they make mistakes.

Yeah, for some people it's Okay, but others just do not accept. Still if your vocabulary is good enough its okay sometimes to make a mistakes. Cmon guys, really nobody's prefect at English, and everyone has had even one case when made a mispelling or simple grammar mistake. So do not judge them, at least correct in the best polite way!

When I was working in Africa one of my bosses, a Canadian, commenting on the standard of written reports, said that it would be good if English universities taught written English to undergraduates.

You're true, it is terrible if a friend sends you an email and you can not understand totally its meaning.

Sometimes, I also get a mistake in writing but I found out an app on the computer, this app will help you check spelling and grammar when you are typing, it is very useful

Over-enthusiastic use of full stop. ;-)