Grammar and spelling police

[philsussex]

Are you one of the posters who finds bad grammar and poor spelling exasperating?

Do you feel the need to point out the errors to the perpetrators?

 

[User removed 4]

Are you one of the posters who finds bad grammar and poor spelling exasperating?

Do you feel the need to point out the errors to the perpetrators?

I find poor spelling really irrittatting.

 

[philsussex]

And how many errors have I made in the original post?

 

[Safeway]

No. Just as NSC is a cross-section of Albion fans, it's also a melting pot of different levels of intelligence/education.

Poor spelling or grammer doesn't make an opinion any less valid.

Anyone who feels the need to pick on other contributors' language skills is a bit sad IMHO and usually means that person has nothing else to argue with.

 

[Safeway]

And how many errors have I made in the original post?

Dunno, but you started that sentence with 'And'.

 

[User removed 4]

And how many errors have I made in the original post?

none ?

 

[philsussex]

Dunno, but you started that sentence with 'And'.

Oops. But I voted for the last option so I suppose I don't really care!

 

[8ace]

Doesn't really bother me unless it is so bad that you can't understand at all what someone is trying to say. Even then I wouldn't complain about it.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I don't really care, so long as it makes a degree of sense. Even if it doesn't I just ignore.

 

[Easy 10]

Doesn't bother me EXCEPT when people write in "textspeak".

I usually associate these people with having some kind of erectile disfunction.

 

[n1 gull]

It pisses me right off when people correct posts, especially as I know it puts off people who haven't had a great time at school or suffer a bit from dyslexia.

I thought the internet was trying to get rid of that nonsense.

Get a life.

 

[Icy Gull]

Where's the option for "I can't spell and what's grammar"?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I'm not bothered about spelling for the most part, unless the poster is a petty retard, who deserves it.

Punctuation is a bigger issue though. The occasional full stop or comma, really does make things so much easier to read.

 

[GOM]

It does irritate me but I won't say anything, it's not my place.

The only person it reflects on is the one that posted it. If they wish to leave that reflection of themselves then it is entirely up to them.

After all nobody is perfect.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It pisses me right off when people correct posts, especially as I know it puts off people who haven't had a great time at school or suffer a bit from dyslexia.

I thought the internet was trying to get rid of that nonsense.

Get a life.

Agreed that people shouldn't be picked on, but not really convinced that the purpose of the internet is to destroy the English language.

 

[8ace]

What really does annoy me is when people refer to the North Laines incorrectly.

 

[bhaexpress]

It doesn't bother me much but I do find it odd that it seems so common at a time we have such good exam results.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Ive been in language education for 25 years and find that orthographical pedantry is the lowest form of intelligence. What matters is that we understand each other, not whether the message is appropriately made up.

And anyone who wants to draw attention to the missing punctuation in the first word...... Linguists will tell you that such punctuation (it's called an apostrophe) will have dissappeared from English completely in the next 10-15 years. SO GET USED TO IT! Language is organic and evolves, it is not fascist.

 

[Badger]

What really does annoy me is when people refer to the North Laines incorrectly.

North Laine

 

[User removed 4]

North Laine

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