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lukewild1982 wrote:
You like capital letter don't you?

I think when your typing on a forum, most of the time its fairly excusable to leave them out

I like capital letters more than I like helping my uncle jack off a horse...

If I was writing a book, I would care about my spelling and grammar.

If Im psoting on a messge bord about amry men, I could care less about my spellign or gramer.

Paul wrote:

rob-or-ross wrote:Why bother?
You are probably (generally) quite a young demographic on this forum and many of you have not yet finished school of college.
As an employer I immediately throw job applications in the bin if they contain serious spelling and grammar mistakes.

Basically, don't take a correction personally. Take it on board, learn from it. Improve yourself.

I completly dissagree with you. For a start there is a big diffrence between posting on a forum and writting a CV. Secondly as an employer and dyslexic you should be aware that to throw a CV in the bin for errors could be in breach of the dda. A forum on wargameing is not the place to try and correct [color]someones[/color] spelling..

Secondly, it is personal. So often people dismiss what others are saying and attack there spelleing and grammer. And will not politley point out an error, but give a torrent of abuse. There is a big diffrence between "perhaps people might be better able to understand your point if x y z" when someone has written a wall of text with no capitals or punctuation in leet and "it's your not you'er you idiot" in reply to a well worded multi paragraph post.

Thirdly, please do tell me, as a dyslexic, how you learn from someone saying "your spellings crap"? That is what i get all of the time. And fyi, I'm dyslexic and have never had problems at work, or getting a job. I am a manager and work for a major publishing house.

I see your point and I know that this could make me look like a total tool, I am new here after all.
If you look in my quoted text you will notice I misspelled a word, "f" is next to "r" on my keyboard and since "of" and "or" are both words, I missed them on the quick proof read I did.

Now in your post you made a few errors but I am not just going to blunder in with "your spellings crap" [sic] but I do think that pointing them out might be useful.
I would say that 10 mistakes in a paragraph is a bit much, especially when you consider that all of them would have been picked up by the standard spell checker in Firefox, I don't know if IE or other browsers have one since I don't use them.
So my response contains constructive feedback: Consider activating your spell checker.

I understand your point about a CV and a forum post being different but I had already addressed that in the original post you have quoted:

rob-or-ross wrote:
Obviously there can be certain idiomatic usages allowed that are not strictly correct grammar due to forum posts representing conversational English.

But certain things should be pointed out:

My point stands, if you consider posting on a forum practice for all written communication then it pays you to make an effort to get things right.
I have even used forum posts as evidence for a key skills NVQ for one of my candidates before.
When I am practising something and somebody gives me some advice on how to perform better I don't get upset, I use the advice to improve myself.

As for binning CVs. It is considered part of the paper sift, if you have hundreds of applications for a job you have to cut it down to a quantity that it is possible to interview.
You first throw away the ones that don't meet the job criteria, then get rid of the ones with no experience, then spelling, then location. Obviously if you only get three applicants you just interview them all. Remember, I specified "serious" mistakes, not just any mistakes.

Thanks for your comments though.

Who is your audience?

If your audience is yourself, be it a fluffy drama-queen rant or just some sort of other attention-grab where you just want a reaction and don't care who it's from, then great, write for yourself. Misspell, don't add punctuation, and just go wild. Don't be surprised when you get garbage back.

If your audience is other people, then write to the standard of those you'd like to attract. When I write, this is the form I take, because I care about what people have to say, and I'm trying to either inform them or ask a question of them to get valuable information back. I generally ignore threads on the forum when I see stuff that's written extremely poorly. Which means that there's at least one potential viewer and contributor that you're losing by 'not believing in capitalization'. Though my browsing habits might imply otherwise, I really only have a limited amount of time and attention to devote, and I'm not about to try to sift through a bunch of badly formatted sentences trying to understand what Johnny-Can't-Find-His-Period-Key meant by the four line long run on he included in his thread asking for help on getting his Red Marines to beat his friend's Blue Marines.

EDIT: You'd think, after decades of not being around bulletin boards, I'd finally stop referring to 'forums' as 'boards'.

daedalus wrote:

lukewild1982 wrote:
You like capital letter don't you?

I think when your typing on a forum, most of the time its fairly excusable to leave them out

I like capital letters more than I like helping my uncle jack off a horse...

What then does this say about e.e. cummings?

And there is a perfect example of what I was saying.

Your post is not perfect grammatically speaking but it is easily readable and represents conversational English.

Also, you apparently made a mistake of some kind and bothered to go back and edit it.

Clarity.

biccat wrote:

daedalus wrote:

lukewild1982 wrote:
You like capital letter don't you?

I think when your typing on a forum, most of the time its fairly excusable to leave them out

I like capital letters more than I like helping my uncle jack off a horse...

What then does this say about e.e. cummings?

I think it says, "if what my uncle and i did. TO... .that Horse was gross; wait till you here what He did to the elePhant;"