Spelling and Grammer

[8ace]

It hardly f***ing matters.
What is sad is when people try to win an argument or put someone down by pointing out their poor spelling/grammer.

 

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

People putting four dots at the end of each sentence drive me do-la-la:US:

Ok...i'll mix it up and add some 3's.....and some 5's.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

My gran taught me how to spell correctly. Shouldn't the title thread be "Spelling and Grandma" ?

 

[e77]

The grammar and spelling on here from some people is at times so bad you can't understand what they are trying to say.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Years ago, myself and a g/f would exchange love letters. Her's were so ridden with mistakes, I felt the need to dish her out some stern discipline, and after that, I got the impression she would put the mistakes in on purpose

 

[RexCathedra]

Quā rē, amicī, nōs perturbāmus dē quībusque legibus linguae moribundae?

(Why, O friends, are we working ourselves up over a few rules in a language that's at death's door anyways?)

Relax -- a dead language is every bit as much fun as a living one.

 

[NMH]

Smelling pisstakes are boring shyt to have to create a thread for.

The irony is, that the pisstake pointer-outer always makes a complete fuqup of it with only worse ones. Like this thread title.

YOU COMPLETE DUNDERHEAD!

 

[RexCathedra]

That may have been intentional. I used to know a bunch of self-exemplifying grammar rules. I can remember a few:

Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Sentence fragments awful.
Eschew obfuscation via recondite locutions.

 

[Acker79]

My excuses are

1) During the day I'm at work and don't have time to edit and revise my posts.

2) At home I'm on my laptop and often watching tv/dvds at the same time, so don't always give my full attention.

 

[Aldo]

I had a pathetic excuse for an English teacher, she wasn't even English, she was an Aussie so always spoke using wierd Australian words that we didn't understand

Wasn't very helpful

Yeah the stupid ginger slag.

Thats her, couldn't put it better myself
She just spent the whole two years sending us out and telling us that we are going to fail.
I look forward to result day on thursday

Lewis, remember the look on her face when I got a B in our mocks after she had told us we would fail all year, never forgotten!!

 

[Napper]

Bad spelling doesn't always mean you earn less or are less intelligent, it also doesn't mean your opinion on football is better

Stop being so picky , twats

 

[seagulls4ever]

Language is all about communication. If people can understand what you are saying and the point which you are trying to get across then what's the problem? There are far more important things in life to get annoyed over. Simplistic spelling and grammar mistakes do not bother me. It only becomes a problem when posts become incoherent and so it's an effort to make sense of things (no full stops or commas in an entire paragraph, for example.)

It's grammar, by the way.

 

[e77]

Language is all about communication. If people can understand what you are saying and the point which you are trying to get across then what's the problem? There are far more important things in life to get annoyed over. Simplistic spelling and grammar mistakes do not bother me. It only becomes a problem when posts become incoherent and so it's an effort to make sense of things (no full stops or commas in an entire paragraph, for example.)

It's grammar, by the way.

Well said.

Certainly not restricted to NSC. I have worked with people just out of university and they can hardly write a coherent sentence.

 

[phoenix]

Perhaps we should have A upper crust section. How sad.

 

[HG201]

Lewis, remember the look on her face when I got a B in our mocks after she had told us we would fail all year, never forgotten!!

Priceless, truly priceless

 

[Andrew]

I don't really want to say that some people's spelling and grammar is bad on NSC. As I think mine is bad anyway.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

I actually got a private message on here once, from someone who said that if i could not spell or use the correct grammer on posts then i should not attempt to post on here as it annoys him so much.

I dont care if peoples spelling or grammer is bad having dyslexia myself. Also i appreciate that probably like me not everyone has time to spell check things, if your typing at work in between real work if you know what i mean

 

[northampton_seagull]

I actually got a private message on here once, from someone who said that if i could not spell or use the correct grammer on posts then i should not attempt to post on here as it annoys him so much.

This was not me.

 

[Frutos]

Perhaps we should have A upper crust section. How sad.

Surely that should be AN upper crust section.

Seriously though, I agree with seagulls4ever. As long as you're making your point clearly and coherently, the odd typo or grammatical error is hardly the biggest disaster in the world.

 

[SICKASAGULL]

I am interested in the comments and it matters little that the spelling and grammer are not perfect. Many years ago I pointed out to my sons teacher that his spelling was not good,the reply was we dont want to stifle his work,it will come in time.
Year by year the standards in English are dropping so in time there will be fewer and fewer people who can recognise our faults,end of story.