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Internet Spelling Police Hi, This will most likely irritate the 'spelling police', but...meh. I don't understand why people feel the need to be corrective when it comes to spelling or grammatical errors on the internet. I haven't seen it here, partly due to the notorious red underline that indicates to the poster that the word is incorrect. I've seen it on virtually all other boards I visit. WHY? Not everyone has a strength in spelling and/or grammar, and in my opinion it is inappropriate, rude, belittling and condescending to correct their misspelled words. If I had to answer a science question, I would fail miserably, not to even broach the subject of math! I'm horrible with both. Are people really that rude? If you see a misspelled word, but know exactly what the poster was attempting to spell, why correct them? You know what they meant. rant over:rolleyes: |
I agree that noone should correct your grammar or misspelled words for you. I am not very good at either. However I do strive to improve. I try to take time to proof read my posts and sometimes I catch the misspelled word. Many years ago (long before internet,when you had to use snail mail) I sent a lovely letter to my boyfriend,he sent it back,corrected with a note saying that he just was trying to help. I got a rather heated phone call and did some learning of his own. We have now been married for 31 years. He doesnt correct my spelling and I dont remind him that he cannt remember anything past 30 min ago. Take a deep breath and ignore the rudeness. |
Oh I've never seen the notorious red underline. But I do agree spelling, punctuation, etc is un-necessary to correct. This is a pet forun, not an English grammar class. I do think though that clarification questions, are quite okay to ask. |
I agree with the OP...I text from my phone and intentionally do not correct if I feel people can figure out what Im trying to say....leave out puntuation a lot |
Oh, the irony. |
I have mixed feelings about this. It depends on who you are correcting. My GF, for instance, didn't appreciate it and she made a point to tell me that before we even started getting heavily involved because an ex of hers was really bad about it and it made her feel stupid. She is probably one of the worse spellers I've ever met and all her family is as well. She and her mom are/were both factory workers for 20 to 40+ years and there is no need for them to worry about that stuff. I really don't care though, I am not with her for her spelling ability. (Plus I feel like I'm helping when she asks me to spell something for her) :D However, she now asks me why things are spelled certain ways and the easiest way to remember how to spell the most common errors people make like "Their, They're, there" "its and it's" "You're Your" and so on. She has a better handle on that now. As for spelling more difficult words, that I can understand for the majority of people... Words like definitely, accommodate, restaurant, separate and so on are just silly spelled words. All those I still have trouble with myself! Restaurant is my least favorite word to have to write or type, I typically substitute it with "diner" hah! :) I think people correct others out of some sort of OCD thing or something like that. They just can't help themselves. It's not right and I feel embarrassed for the correcter rather than the corrected when I see it in public. One last "However".... I really can't stand how some people intentionally misspell simple words. I'm not talking about making your texts shorter...I mean just completely and intentionally misspelling words to look cool. That drives me insane..... My reply to those that speak dumb are "Let me get out my secret decoder ring to figure out what the heck you're saying!" :) (But only to my close friends, of course). -Adriana |
okk, i mest bee mising the entir point of ths tread |
While I am always conscious of spelling and grammar - for myself - I don't think that people should be correcting others on the internet. That said, I reserve the right to not respond to anything I don't understand. I've (tried to ) read many posts that have so few correctly spelled words, coupled with NO punctuation, that I just give up and move on to the next post. I'm not going to expend energy trying to decipher garbage. |
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(still lost on the irony aspect) |
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My thoughts exactly |
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I also agree that it depends. If someone is asking for help with spelling a word, that's different. |
I lean on 'Spell Check' most of the time. :D |
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Don't try to ban the dictator of the Banning Thread here in the games forum. He will tease you mercilessly if you make any kind of mistake. :D ;) All in good fun. I often type like English is my second language. Don't worry about any of the internet police. :) |
I can't stand it when people can't spell simple words. It's not that hard. but I get that English is not the primary language of some though. However, I did see on one forum, someone complaining about a member being a primadonna. They spelled it "pre-Madonna". I didn't even get what they were saying at first, until someone corrected them. I thought that was totally warranted. It's like when someone tries to use a big word to impress people, but they use it in the wrong context. I would correct them. |
If you don't know how to spell something complicated just ad (sp?) |
I once posted an ad on craigslist for an "IPOD" I received a reply email from a guy explaining how it was actually an IPod- the O and D are not capitalized. LOL! Seriously? What a sad life to have to patrol the internet for something like that. I say feel bad for the person and forget worrying about spelling- aren't there more important things in the world?! |
I am very hard on myself about spelling. I used to want to go to school to be an English major. Just another unreasonable expectation I've set for myself. With other people it doesn't really bother me, but just makes me feel kind of sad that some simple, everyday words have not been learned. But I don't judge & am in no way perfect. That little red line, or even 14y.o. dd have saved my butt many times.:p I'll tell you what really annoys me-when people sing our National Anthem with the wrong lyrics. What the heck is up with that? I say "Police Away"!;) |
I think correcting people on a public forum is rude. I think the person doing the correcting feels small and this maybe their one talent so they feel bigger by correcting others. I am so self conscience of the fact that I am a horrible speller. I am Dyslexia and have a learning disability. It took many years before I had the confidence to know I am very intelligent ...it is just a learning disability. Like being color blind or something. I have learned some coping skills to deal with the disability. I just cant seam to make words " mine" and Remember them, i also have a Difficult with Pronuncation. My dh says it is my "hillbilly" accent but with being in Miami 26 years I really can't blame that anymore. By the way I have a master degree in education and have been. Teacher for 24 years I think there is fine balance of helping people learn and tearing people down... When ever you hurt someone's feeling in the process you have done something g wrong. |
the only time it's acceptable to correct spelling on an open internet forum is when you are close to the person like me correcting Jodi or Mary or Amanda or something. Most of the time I'll never have to correct anyone, but sometimes when it's an obvious typo and not an error it's fun to give em' a bit of hell for it ;) correcting a stranger not out of joking but seriously just correcting spelling would be rude and annoying. |
I will admit I received a letter one day, and corrected the spelling and grammar in red ink and sent it back...... However, in my defense, the letter was from none other than my son's high school English teacher. I feel justified. We also had a very heated discussion on the I vs me in a sentence. She was wrong! |
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But in all seriousness, I don't think spelling counts in casual Internet usage. Most of the time people are replying quickly and not worrying about perfection. |
I just figured out I CAN spell! I cannot type! Lol!:D |
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Somebody misspelling words don't bother me so much - after all, it could be a simple typo or what have you, but what drives me nuts is when people intentionally spell words wrong or write paragraphs with no punctuation at all even though there were several complete sentences. I'm not talking about run on sentences, I'm talking about just purposely not ending a sentence and it keeps going on and on and on and on. I get lost reading it. I also especially hate when people TyPe LiKe ThIs. Again, the things that I hate is when it is done intentionally. If I see any posts like the things I described, I will 99% of the time not even read or respond. |
I totally agree about the run on sentences with no capitals and no punctuation. Drives me crazy and actually I finally throw up my hands and decide it is not worth reading. Spelling... I try so hard to get things correct... however, I have reread some of my past posts and see I did not do the greatest and made spelling and other mistakes. So, no judging here. ;) |
I often flip-flop between the British spelling of words and the American spelling, without even realizing it...add auto-correct to the mix, and the result can be a real mess. However, one some online sites, like Craigslist, I find poor spelling really frustrating. Try searching for an armoire....and you miss those that spell it "armwar". Trying searching for wrought iron .....and you miss those that spell it "rawt ion". I'm sure there's a lovely "armwar with rawt ion axe cents" out there that I'm missing out on...lol |
Oh my... this is a loaded question. first I think that correcting stuff online is ridiculous. HOWEVER. being a teaching assistant for 5 different university courses, it's time for me to add in my biggest pet peeve. I cannot believe the amount of people who depend on spell check from Word for their proof reading. My biggest nemesis is "Costumer" yes I understand that a person who makes costumes is a "costumer"; however, I highly doubt that 4 out of 40 management students are directing their non-theatre/halloween related business proposals to people in the costume industry. LOL. Sorry I had to have that rant. it DRIVES me crazy. |
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