Typos in the forums
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I would strap them to a seat and make them watch Barney all day long. I don't know why, but I just think it would be funny.curlycrouton said:
I just wish people would learn how to spell. I also hate when people use the "text speak" in conversations, in person. I just want to strangle them.
You know, I was tempted to point out the five or six grammatical and spelling mistakes in your post, but that would be too cruel. I'm generally okay with typos, because they're exactly that, typos.
What really gets my goat though is more than six blatant mistakes in a paragraph, especially if the poster is trying to demonstrate the enormity of his/her intelligence in their arguments.
What really gets my goat though is more than six blatant mistakes in a paragraph, especially if the poster is trying to demonstrate the enormity of his/her intelligence in their arguments.
Yeah some people aren't great spellers around here. However there's no a need to go ballistic at anyone who forgets an apostrophe or such. I've always made it my policy to:
a) Only go crazy about bad spelling and grammar in the reviews section and,
b) Never post just to point out a small error.
a) Only go crazy about bad spelling and grammar in the reviews section and,
b) Never post just to point out a small error.
I know people who speak just like that.curlycrouton said:
Many members of the community are still young, others are not native speakers. Regardless of the reason, a spell-checker can work wonders for anyone, and we highly recommend them to anyone who wants to be taken serious here.gantzsurvivor1 said:
That's it though, if someone is a poor speller but has something interesting to say we're not going to crucify him. We'll probably send him a friendly PM about where to get a spell-checker. This is a forum first, and that means we have to accommodate for people of all walks of life.
Sure we can, most of the staff are highly friendly if you don't PM them with threats/demands.gantzsurvivor1 said:
I figured it did not need the grammar part. The thread is about those types of things. I thank you anyway.Reaperman Wompa said:
Maybe change the settings from English (US) to English (UK) or vice-versa?Omnidum said:
Non-native English forum members may have a hard time with grammar, but I think that is understandable. Perhaps by displaying the flag of the forum member below the avatar would easily identify such forum users so they are spared the brunt of online criticism (and a gentle PM to indicate the proper usage perhaps).wilsonscrazybed said:
I think that as long as a conscious effort is made to correct the spelling the odd error here or there is acceptable. Even senior editors from leading newspapers, faced with deadlines, fail to capture some spelling or grammatical inconsistencies from time to time.
To err is human, to forgive divine.
I unconsciously check for grammar and spelling mistakes when I read anything, and sometimes, I'm glad they're there, because when someone sends me a scathing message, I can say "you spelled this, this, and this incorrectly". It's just like what Yahtzee did during the mailbag showdown.
Correcting people's mistakes on the Internet makes me feel like a fussy know-it-all, but correct grammar and spelling (within reasonable boundaries) is an important part of a text-based community. And I hate people who treat an Internet forum (chat rooms I am more indifferent to, considering the different speed of replying) like their own personal text-messaging service.
Besides, being a grammar Nazi gives off the smug, self-congratulating feeling of "I'm better than you and the whole world ought to know it", which can be very satisfying.
Besides, being a grammar Nazi gives off the smug, self-congratulating feeling of "I'm better than you and the whole world ought to know it", which can be very satisfying.