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Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Sometimes it's just impossible to decipher some posts though. They deserve to be able to express their opinion, yet lack the ability to actually do so.

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

if i postd liek ths, kil me please.

That's the level of crap I wade into sometimes. It's fething insane.

Chowderhead wrote:if i postd liek ths, kil me please.

That's the level of crap I wade into sometimes. It's fething insane.

Some students I've dealt with have written worse.

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

That's the kind of occasional spelling error that isn't actually that big of a deal. My issue is when a post doesn't have a single capital letter in it, with improper punctuation, and multiple spelling or syntax errors.

At least it's better than the posts like this.

hurrdurrraedmahpstanhalpirclareliecxitedabuotthismundanesubject

Or this.

hurrdurr raed mah pst an halp i are clareli ecxited abuot this mundane subject

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

Intentional typo is intentional

am ensulteed by yoor speeling ellytisms dackacaca

i joost daspare uv poople liek yoo

shaem on yoo alsbatris, mansterb rani, chewderhood and all the uvers.

DAKKAcaca I dunno if its because its so damn late, but Im laughing so hard at that Ive got tears running down my face. I need sleep. My only real problem as far as posts, is I HATE ' button. I almost never use it. But Ill change a post several times to correct spelling. Even then, I still re read what I just wrote to make sure Im not slaughtering spelling.


But ya, I blame summer. Its nearly done, and those blasted whipper snappers will be to busy with school and promnights and such to even bother coming back here

Avatar 720 wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

Intentional typo is intentional

So you don't care that it is wrong? I think someone mentioned that that is ban worthy...

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

Intentional typo is intentional

So you don't care that it is wrong? I think someone mentioned that that is ban worthy...

I never said I didn't care that it's wrong, only that it was intentional. If I intentionally eat a steak, does that mean I don't care about the cow that donated it? I love that cow for donating the steak.

My browsers have spell-checkers that underline any misspelled words for me (in red) so I can pick them out when and if they happen before I hit the 'submit' button.

Then again, I got into the habit of going over anything I've written several times to ensure I have it right.

If the posts come across as made by an uneducated and disinterested in learning teen with ADHD and anger-management issues (they get hostile when called-to on their posting), I just ignore them.

The handwriting of my younger club-mates is appalling - their excuse is that they don't have to hand write anything at school anymore - except their keyboard skills are equally atrocious.
Their numeracy is likewise bad (I've seen them struggle to do simple arithmetic (addition of a column of double digit integers) without a calculator).

English is a second language for me, so I apologize in advance, and try not to misspell.

Monster Rain wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:Most people deserve to be sharing their opinions, it's just questionable as to wether or not they deserve recognition.

Please fix.

That's the kind of occasional spelling error that isn't actually that big of a deal. My issue is when a post doesn't have a single capital letter in it, with improper punctuation, and multiple spelling or syntax errors.

The worst part is that, typically, such people tend to be fairly pushy in their opinions, meaning that they look both arrogant AND stupid.

There are quite a lot of people for whom English is not a first language, but they are not the perpetrators of the mangled English we see on the forums.

It tends to be natural English speakers, likely the younger posters, that show the poorest use of the language. There's an assumption that it doesn't matter, or that people will understand them regardless.

This is a bad assumption to make, a lot of people can't follow bad spelling and 'txt spk' simply because they are unfamiliar with it due to not been a teenager, or because they have it as a second language.

It's just bad manners. The odd spelling mistake will always creep through, but on my browser at least I get a red squiggle appear under misspelt words to draw my attention to them. So what is the excuse for the posts littered with mistakes?

For instance, I know this post has no spelling mistakes. But it may contain the wrong word, albeit correctly spelt, as that won't be picked up by spell check. In that case I apologise. But the people that mix up 'their' with 'there' and 'they're', or 'you're' with 'your' need to be shot. It's one of my pet hates and, frankly, shows that you are not thinking about what you are writing.


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Monster Rain wrote:That's the kind of occasional spelling error that isn't actually that big of a deal. My issue is when a post doesn't have a single capital letter in it, with improper punctuation, and multiple spelling or syntax errors.

I could care less.

dogma wrote:No one cares about Wales anyway.

Even the Welsh don't care about Wales.

I'm not as bothered by it any more, because I see it all the time in Facebook posts.

What really annoys me is all the excuses people try to get away with. I couldn't care less if someone is only fourteen, because that's still fourteen years of being taught how to spell and write.

I think its a bit anal moaning about the odd spelling mistake though, I think that dakka is pretty good generally, I as well miss little things like comma's or always capitalising I or whatever, as long as the thing is coherent and not in text speak, I don't much mind.

I really cant get away with LOL OMG WTF MY M8S R GR8 kinda gak though. When I text I just write like I always do, how much space do you need to save anyways? Its not like we send epic scrolls to our friends via SMS.

And I especially hate text ones that aren't any shorter! I get texts (usually women) with words like L8ter, but they arent any fething shorter?!

You're a repeat offender Matty, in terms of grammatical clangers. However, I know that this is down to the fact that you often post via your phone, when you should in fact be working!



Bloody public sector workers.....

Albatross wrote:You're a repeat offender Matty, in terms of grammatical clangers. However, I know that this is down to the fact that you often post via your phone, when you should in fact be working!



Bloody public sector workers.....

Yeah I'm not on my phone now which is why my spelling and grammar are ok, I often leave the commas and gak out or don't bother to correct minor spelling mistakes when I'm on my phone.

Oh and regards the last half of your sentence, I'm not on my phone because I'm home from work 2 hours early!

Get Thatcher back in, I demand a wage cut.

NVM. Hit quote instead of edit.

Mattyrm, from what Albatross says, you remind me of a buddy of mine. Hes a computer guy, and when he lived in Michigan had a tech job for H&R Block. He would show up all the time and want to goto some restaurant to eat or go hang out somewhere, and one time we even went mud bogging for the day, all while he was on the clock

It was hilarious.

KingCracker wrote:Mattyrm, from what Albatross says, you remind me of a buddy of mine. Hes a computer guy, and when he lived in Michigan had a tech job for H&R Block. He would show up all the time and want to goto some restaurant to eat or go hang out somewhere, and one time we even went mud bogging for the day, all while he was on the clock

It was hilarious.

Ok his job sounds way better than mine.

My job is task and finish, and through threats, intimidation and violence I can finish it a couple hours early If I have a good day. I get a helluva sweat on though, and its pretty enjoyable, but I doubt I could go mud bogging for the day...

....

What the feth is mud bogging?!

I believe mud bogging to be a form of off-road motorised recreation activity... I was going to say motorsport, but i'm not sure that'd be accurate.


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link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_bogging


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Ok, so it IS a motorsport. I stand corrected

It can be a motosport like in your link, or it can just be a few people enjoying driving on wooded trails/ through the woods, both are pretty much called the same thing.

I was aware of the less competitive side already, it sounds like immense fun.

Being in school and taking it seriously doesn't necessarily mean they will be able to use proper spelling and grammar. I know plenty of engineers that I work with who can't form a proper sentence or express a cohesive thought in written English to save their lives, but they know how to write software. (Though, that too is debatable at times.) I count myself lucky for having escaped their fate, as I was interested in creative writing throughout high school and college, and took classes to nurture that.

But the overall decline in society's ability to spell and use proper grammar is something I attribute to "txt spk" - possibly the bane of my existence - and to a lesser degree it's predecessor, Instant Messaging shorthand. Texting has evolved into it's own bastardized form of English, where spelling and grammar get tossed right out the window in favor of something potentially shorter and "just good enough to maybe understand". Add into the mix spell-checker and grammar-checker, courtesy of MS Word, and suddenly kids don't have to care about those things - the program coddles them and fixes all of their mistakes for them, instead of forcing them to learn from their mistakes.

The people where English is a second language, or a third...you guys are covered. Anyone who pokes fun at you, feel free to smack them.

I run most of my posts through word before posting.

That being said if the flag next to a posters name is not "made in us/gb" then I assume English is not their first language and as such I forgive any mis-spelling.


Also I don't use comma's

Also I don't use comma's

Comma's what?

I use commas too much, generally speaking, often when I should, instead, start a new sentence, and sometimes where they are not, needed. Yeah, I've got a problem.