Do you judge people by their spelling?
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That bothers me a little, especially if the poster is talking about something he claims to be knowledgeable about, but can't spell the technical terms correctly. It's never made me disregard someone though.
What does make me look down on someone is bad grammar. Not just comma splicing or whatever, I'm talking about stuff that takes a real determination not to re-read your posts. notusing full stops is the worst offender it maeks the whole sentence not readable unless you consciously go back and place one there consciously.
These kind of posts make me want to choke a *****.
What does make me look down on someone is bad grammar. Not just comma splicing or whatever, I'm talking about stuff that takes a real determination not to re-read your posts. notusing full stops is the worst offender it maeks the whole sentence not readable unless you consciously go back and place one there consciously.
These kind of posts make me want to choke a *****.
it depends on the situation. With in-game chat it is practical to purposely misspell words lie coz and u, because of time limitations. I usually would judge people on spelling, especially if I know english is their native language. There is undeniably a correlation between spelling accuracy and intelligence, so it seems natural to judge people on this basis.
I judge people somewhat, depending on the extent of the mistakes. If you can't be bothered to put the effort in to make your opinion appear respectable, then your opinion is likely not worth reading.
People I judge very harshly are people with bad spelling and grammar and try and excuse it by claiming they have dyslexia. As I have dyslexia myself, I know that just means you have to try even harder, it's not an excuse to stop trying altogether.
People I judge very harshly are people with bad spelling and grammar and try and excuse it by claiming they have dyslexia. As I have dyslexia myself, I know that just means you have to try even harder, it's not an excuse to stop trying altogether.
That's a typo, not a spelling mistake. They know full well hot to spell "the", they're just typing quickly and so hit the keys in the wrong order.Karma168 said:
I am dyslexic and was born in Germany, followed by moving to the UK at the age of 8, so in short my spelling and grammar are crap. This often leads to me not being able to use the lexicon(vocabulary) that I want to use or misspelling that lexicon as a completely different word (also I pretty much have to guess when to use a ',' or a '.' a lot of the time).Lacsapix said:
Generally, for simple spelling mistakes, I can let it pass. As with a lot of people it seems, if someone is simply ranting and giving no thought into their post, then I just ignore it. If you don't have the decency to at least make an argument look neat, then its usually not worth listening to.
Somewhat on topic, a few weeks ago, in an actual college level classroom, I saw this girl spell scavenger as "scavengar" and traveling as "travelling". Keep in mind, this was as I was looking at her notes, in an actual, college junior level academic setting. I'll be honest, I judged her instantly.
Somewhat on topic, a few weeks ago, in an actual college level classroom, I saw this girl spell scavenger as "scavengar" and traveling as "travelling". Keep in mind, this was as I was looking at her notes, in an actual, college junior level academic setting. I'll be honest, I judged her instantly.
This is a sentence riddled with idiocy. I'm dyslexic but that doesn't mean I don't try to spell things correctly. If I notice I've made a mistake, I correct it. The idea that your disability means you don't think less of others for being so careless or ignorant with their typing or speaking is downright embarrassing.hudsonzero said:
In the medium of typing, I hate the short hand text language. u instead of you etc, however i will accept it when using a typing thing in the PS3 or such. Its just too awkward. And does anyone else think doing text language on a phone is actually harder than typing correctly. Although I Do Find It Irritating When People Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word. I Mean Why?
I do, I find people that have extremely poor spelling such as "y dont u lik me???" to instantly have lost alot of my interest in anything they have to say and increase how skeptical I am of their intelligence. If a person makes a typo here and there that would be harmless but communicating like a 12 year old girl trying to text her 'bff' is ridiculous. (I have nothing against 12 year old girls. Just their spelling. Which is usually horrible. Usually because they are 12.) Ironically enough one of the captcha words is enunciated.
Well, I'm German, and I stopped switching their/there/there're/they're, now/no/know, to/too/two and similar words some time in sixth grade. It's not difficult, it's completely logical, and unless you have some kind of mental disability (like dyslexia) there (!) is no (!) excuse to make mistakes of this kind.Anoni Mus said:
Depends, if they're dyslexic then of course not. If english is their second language then that's fine. I forgive some errors like not capitalising nouns (i almost never do it).
However getting your and you're and their, they're and there mixed up and not using apostrophes and fullstops correctly (i'm looking at you fanfiction writers) gets me annoyed and dont get me started on the fuckers who use u instead of you
However getting your and you're and their, they're and there mixed up and not using apostrophes and fullstops correctly (i'm looking at you fanfiction writers) gets me annoyed and dont get me started on the fuckers who use u instead of you
