i always correct people's grammar

when talking to them on instant messenger or something. It just irritates the hell out of me. They get sooo annoyed sometimes, though. Even offended. It's not so much sentence structure or things like that, it's their spelling. Like, these people are 21, 22 years old, and they don't know how to spell things that they learned in like FIRST grade! I have to resist the urge to correct people on here sometimes, too. I don't think I'm a bitch or anything like that, I'm actually a nice person, but for some reason I can't stand it when otherwise very intelligent people don't know how to spell things. Or how to use things like "too, two and to", or "their, there and they're". It's not rocket science. And don't get mad at me when I correct you! I'm just being a good friend by helping you not look stupid to others! GOSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 

It's hard for me to take people who cannot spell basic words seriously, especially online... where all of your communication is writing-based.

The second I see a "u" instead of an "you" in a post, I just kinda skip it, ya know?

 

i do the same.... well, only with the girl whom i adore. just to get on her nerves


i really don't understand people who can't spell correctly online... even typing at just 25 wpm ought to be slow enough to spell words out correctly without slowing you down.

 

i make stupid mistakes alot, but i usually try to make sure i spell right

its kind of hard not to when google can check it in half a second

 

mozilla firefox 2 is equipped with an automatic spell checker. fookin' nerds

 

I have dyslexia. I am also a published writer. Thank goodness for spell check or I would seem very moronic...and I would be broke!

 

well i feel stupid...so thats what all those red lines that obviously mean that the word is spelled wrong

 

theres a firefox 2? i think i only have 1.... hmm..

 

you may already have it. usually firefox gives you a notice whenever there is a new version.

 

well it doesnt spell check things for me..

 

Many times people who spell incorrectly could be foreign or have a condition such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, etc...

I also work with a lot of hispanic people. I speak properly most of the time around them, (I still through out random curses) but I'm certainly not going to correct their english if they don't ask. Especially when I'm still working on my spanish.

If someones just dumb, then I might point it out. But often people don't correct themselves in net slang.

Rubin's english is all good and shit. it's all hard work like, but blah and fuck. Not everyone is an english major or whatever.

Both my 'rents were. My father dropped out, and as much as I hate to compliment him, his quality of writing is on par with anything published I've read.

Was I should say. I'm not sure he writes much anymore. Too buzy destroying himself.

 

!!!!!!


ahhh how can anyone leave this place

 

Does HF have those lines.

I mean der it?

...Nope.

 

That's why I don't correct people I don't know... But I correct my friends, who I know don't have those things, all the time. My best friend especially, who lives 250 miles away and the only place we really talk to each other is online, and she can't spell worth a shit, and she's always like, "was THAT spelled right??" like a smartass...

 

Ditto! I agree, I'm all for proper English and correct spelling, been that way since college. I must confess I'm a little rusty when it comes to the too's.

Read about the to's:



wsu.edu/~brians/errors/to.html








Bustramp

 

Oh yeah, if I had some friends who couldn't form a sentence, I'd let them know. Although casually, I don't speak very properly.

The structure of my sentences is correct, but every so often I'll drop off in the middle of a sentence. I don't know what that's about.

 

i do that, too. I think that's how my brain works. when i was little i was told i had ADD, well ADHD to be exact. I can start talking about one thing and end up talking about a completely different thing. especially if i'm drunk. which is now.

 

Too is almost always limited to meaning 'also' or 'as well'.

 

I's tha kingg of speling n gramer!



I must admit though, my grammar is slowly falling apart, that's a good thing though, I do not like to be limited by its silly rules in my writing.

 

Yeah, I ended up not taking add meds when I was a kid.

Now I am prescribed them. (much harder to get as an adult)

I use them when I'm trying to focus on something for extended periods of time. Like writing. I still have to have a dvd playing or music on. I get nervous when theres nothing going on.

Especially when I'm inside. If I go outside, I can be fine with silence, it can seem tranquil. But inside I need some kind of noise. I can't sleep without a fan on.