Ban the grammar and spelling nazi's!
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You might want to use that effort to check the spelling of your forum signature before being critical of others......
RTM the post of the said bully.
I will go in and edit his post with some spelling errors
I personally never pick on people unless their posts are completely unreadable. Cosmogenesis comes to mind, but then again, he copy and paste so much that he is at least understandable half the time.
I think a lot of people have a problem with laziness. When you said 'im a good sport', did your spellchecker not flash red on 'im'?. Correct it, it takes 2 seconds to change it to 'I'm' and a lot of people will take you more serious. If I read a post riddled with terrible grammar and even worse spelling, I automatically discard the poster as an idiot and not worth listening to.
You have a spellchecker, use it!
You might want to use that effort to check the spelling of your sig......
Whats spelled wrong in my sig
Also is it 'spelt' or 'spelled'?
I always used 'spelt', but it gets a red underline so now I used 'spelled'
i use one on everything. Does not always sort the problem
why it could be the very best they can do? yet they could be the most successful person on this forum, hung like a horse and have women chasing them around. Yet on here they get quoted and tagged stupid.
i have dyslexia, and would not change it for the world. My boss always comes to be with complex issues and asks for my dyslexic view on things.
dyslexia is not the issue, if you have it you have so what, its about being a complete Ahole and correcting someone to make yourself feel better...
All I'm saying is that there suddenly seem to be an awful lot of suffers these days afflicted with this terrible ... well, whatever it is. If you're a real sufferer and not a pretender like 80% of people claiming they are, more power to you for making light of it
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OP: It is a disgrace that fully grown men use incorrect there/their/they're. They teach this in year 2-3 at school. Perhaps if you are a a bit slow it could take a few years longer . I don't know you (OP), you could post something very relevant and intelligent in the thread, heck you could even be a brain surgeon for all I know, but if you say 'It was over their' it makes me think you aren't the sharpest knife and your post hasn't a lot of credibility. All I can judge you by is the text in which you are posting. I haven't done anything English or English Literature related in education since I was 15 and I use the correct there/their/they're.
. I don't know you (OP), you could post something very relevant and intelligent in the thread, heck you could even be a brain surgeon for all I know, but if you say 'It was over their' it makes me think you aren't the sharpest knife and your post hasn't a lot of credibility. All I can judge you by is the text in which you are posting. I haven't done anything English or English Literature related in education since I was 15 and I use the correct there/their/they're.
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OP: It is a disgrace that fully grown men use incorrect there/their/they're. They teach this in year 2-3 at school. Perhaps if you are a a bit slow it could take a few years longer
Exactly what I said too.
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I'm not interested in grammar for forums, they are informal conversations.
The way I deal with their and there is to think of it like this:
their = our
there = here
The way I deal with their and there is to think of it like this:
their = our
there = here
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Whats spelled wrong in my sig
Also is it 'spelt' or 'spelled'?
I always used 'spelt', but it gets a red underline so now I used 'spelled'
I assume he's referring to Gadafi, which has several accepted spellings.
Spelt and spelled are both correct, spelled seems to be taking over as the main one to use though.
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I have Dyselxia too. Still got a 1st class in Engineering. It soooooooo isn't an excuse
.So if I post in MM saying:
'Wattup bois I haz got an awsum 360 4 sale I nly wnt 100quid 4 it'.
You would think what a moron and quickly press the back button on your (see I used the correct your/you're
) browser.
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come on using things like 'im' or 'i' instead of 'I' is hardly needed on a forum, jeeees i use my phone to post and don't have time for that.
What phone do you use to post where it's easier to type im than I'm? All the smartphones I've used in the past 3 years autocorrect for this.
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Whats spelled wrong in my sig
Also is it 'spelt' or 'spelled'?
EDIT: damn, beaten to it, re: the spelling of Gaddafi
Back on topic, I never struggled with spelling or grammar at school, but I was hopeless when it came to maths. That's been an advantage to me in my career, working as I do in the print/web industry. Amongst other duties, I'm often called upon to proof-read copy and it never ceases to amaze me the garbage English turned out by people supposedly educated to degree level.
I would never go so far as to put up a list of spelling errors in someone's post - to do so would be a bit patronising - but I must confess I do find myself making mental corrections or tutting a bit when I read bad grammar or spelling.
Particularly bad are people who don't understand the use of punctuation and produce a post that consists of one enormous sentence that stretches, without pause, for an entire paragraph. When you read something like that you have to mentally punctuate it in order to understand what the poster is trying to say or where one point ends and another begins - that can get tiresome.
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All I'm saying is that there suddenly seem to be an awful lot of suffers these days afflicted with this terrible ... well, whatever it is. If you're a real sufferer and not a pretender like 80% of people claiming they are, more power to you for making light of it
I agree. Dyslexia has been used to freely, for me if you have not been diagnosed your don't have it.
OP: It is a disgrace that fully grown men use incorrect there/their/they're. They teach this in year 2-3 at school. Perhaps if you are a a bit slow it could take a few years longer
it might work like that in your head, but for some people they simply do not have the brain structure to hold that information. Richard Branson has had some of the best teachers in the world spend weeks with him. He lacks the ability to recall the spelling and sounds of certain words. disregarding a post on that is short sighted, being from Southampton/London i could disregard you being from Stoke? you know what they say about you lot down here...
again bit short sighted though.
Whats spelled wrong in my sig
Also is it 'spelt' or 'spelled'?
I always used 'spelt', but it gets a red underline so now I used 'spelled'
They are (I am not an expert) both correct, it is a matter of preference only, although you neglected an apostrophe in "Whats" it should be "What's" as the "s" is a shortened form of "is".
The spelling of "Gaddafi" in your forum signature is incorrect.
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It might work like that in your head, but for some people they simply do not have the brain structure to hold that information.
One thing we need to make absolutely clear is that there is a difference between being dyslexic and being just plain thick. You learn how to use there/their/they're by age 6. That gives you 10 years until your GCSE to learn it properly
He lacks the ability to recall the spelling and sounds of certain words. disregarding a post on that is short sighted, being from Southampton/London i could disregard you being from Stoke? you know what they say about you lot down here...
I don't live in Stoke, just no-one has heard of where I live