Spelling.......lack of care taken

Oh no not again??? Remember Aandy????

I blame non-members!

I'm guilty. Had a couple of reds last night :-)) I reckon thats the cause of most peoples decreased brain activity after 6pm.

Noen thngk worsa tdan a nonen-drinker is a reformered one I olways says.

g'Day. gOOntWOppo., i"D wE caN't WeeLy Cee wOt UrE PooInT Was iS,. mY muM lEarned Me eNgisH WelL sPEak SPell,.. cHeers tRoopYtReK...

GoneTroppo,

Have no trouble reading posts, but how do I "tread" one?? ;)

Hope this wasn't posted during your mid-morning peak of brain activity.

Cheers,
Heffers

Looks like the Pot calling thr Cettle black.

Or just restrict access to those who are really worried about it enough to post about it :))

Bad spelling is bad.
Bad grammar is bad.

BUT, incorrect use of an apostrophe should be a capital crime !!

www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

Your' wright.

When I was growing up Real Men didn't type....LOL That was left to typists or pretty secretaries to do.

But with the advent of the home computer over the last 25 years we have all put our minds to typing with with one finger or with two or with fat finger

We all do typos.

Spelling? Well I notice that 'their' becomes 'there' and 'hear' becomes 'here'.

Many of us spell as we speak. .i.e with phonectics. Many contributors grew up in a different era when the emphasis on spelling and grammer in schools had changed

I seldom use spell check but often see that I have made a typo or a spelling error and kick myself for not editing the post well enough.

If one is going to write an epistle then it is best to write it in Word, do a spell check and then Copy and Paste on to the forum.

But.........

neve fi ouy etirw to sdrawkcab ti si llits elbadnatsrednu

LOL

Cheers

If the english language was written phonetically, there would not be a problem. I met a man who said the way we spell was important to our culture, not like that american lingo. I was culture shocked to think this person belonged to the same race as me!

And as to typing, yeah. I taught myself to type and its one of the best things I ever did. My favourite bitch now is that kids who face a keyboard future are not taught as a compuslory subject. Looking around I dont think they are taught arithmetic either.

But a good laugh this bright and crispy morning in WA. Thank you.

Owen

Despite being married to a teacher who also happens to be a practising catholic, I have never been made aware that god was an awful speller, then she would never tell me that would she? I am not going to submit this to SWMBO for the usual spelling and grammar check because it will be handed back with the spelling and grammar corrected and nothing else!
I'll say
"What do you think of the sentiment, context, or the way it is written?"
and get a one word answer ie......
"OK".
Which brings me to my point that the human spelling and grammar warriors only care about one thing and tend to miss out on the much of the sentiment of the text! I'm sure that the above-mentioned warriors think that Mugabes worst crime is poor spelling and grammar!
doug
P.S. The rest of you Keep up the interesting and amusing Spelling ;-)

G'Day GoneTroppo member,
Not that I really care to much about spelling, But since you started it I believe "contributers" should be contributors.
That's my contribution. :)
Cheers Boldjack

Forget the odd spelling mistake, it's the posts that read like a text message that annoy me. Abbreviated, shortened & without any punctuation at all. wat r the yuth been tort at skool
Cheers Craig.........

Troppo
My hypothesis is that there is a strong correlation between age and frustration experienced when confronted with poor spelling...us younger generation use txt spk and are couldn't care less about "inkorrect spelleng"...with ya on the beverages tho mate ;-) haha

Cheers
Big Red

I had to wade into this one...look I totally agree, typos are a way of life but the majority of persons in here would have gone to school when spelling was considered an important subject. Ok so what about those of us who never had the benefit of an education? Yes well what about the poor buggers, I feel for them. I tend of course to be hyper critical of anyone who does not meet my personal standards in spelling & grammar & personal relationships.
I do find it confusing as a self proclaimed "CHAP" when I see adds on the television for those unfortunate enough to be dyslectic, how are they to respond if they can’t read or write.
I had a supervisor who was dyslexic and this made for great fun at his expense, it was an area of Government renown for verbose reports and this poor guy, on the abandonment of the typing pool, decided that his simple solution was to add his own spellings to his PC’s dictionary. I tell you it made for some humorous reports.
Stats show that men between the ages of 39 and 57 can’t spell as well as women but this I suspect is because there is a “Man Drought” in this age group (said so on TV this morning) so finding any man who could spell after an evening of trying to alleviate the drought may be difficult.
It’s not only spelling it’s the pronunciation by some of a few words that really let the side down. Those who have to add a W before an L i.e. swim in a poowl, this is usually associated with the trendy, pseudos sophisticated types with 3 Uni degrees in “Women’s Studies” or similar, then there seems to be a small sector of society that puts a K behind a G i.e. stop the bombingk, then there are those who just simply refuse to pronounce the S at the start of a word i.e. I told you pacifically…. Then of course there are the “Upper Crust” pronunciations usually associated with persons of far higher status than myself so I have to remain circumspect in any criticism of it.
Yes indeed an emotive issue…

It's a Internet Forum not a TEE English exam paper.

If the letters are in close to correct order, or just missing a letter or 2 i can an still read the text.

Two sentences below, top one with a few mistakes, the lower written correctly. Both are easy enough to read.

the only reasion that springs to mind is that peopl r cosuming a refresment
The only reason that springs to mind, is people are consuming a refreshment.

Quote "Nothing obvious was apparent."

Seems to me we have a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I'm sure you meant "Nothing was obvious", didn't you?

haha you old blokes will love this:

Site Link

"what did you eat for lunch today?" - gotta love the practicality of internet forums...

Big Red

One area that gets right up my nose is the region of Financial Nomenclature, upper crust types pronounce it fin ance lesser types say fine ance. Tried to understand a super statement or even matters Taxual... Holly Snapping Duck Excrement they go on... Reversionary benifits, non accrued deductions ad nauseam. Then I take a peek at the glossary to find out excatly what they mean and that likewise may have been written by a Martian....

i aint nevr bean lernt

ROFLMAO .................... Brain activities peaks by mid morning .............. I've peaked well before then and started the slide much much much earlier no point straining till mid morning :).

As for speling gramer and that other thing ......... one day maybe but not today :).

Brian

Nah, bad spelling doesn't bother me, badly spoken grammar does, eg the tart advertising a certain car insurance company on TV who says something like " I was unsatisfied with my current company etc". Wow, even a whole insurance company couldn't satisfy her !.
Don't look to the media for good english - you're sure to be dissatisfied.

cheers
T.R'ibby

It is all due to DISCRIMINATION of course.

The fact is that keyboards are made with little keys that were originally designed for women's slender fingers. Men end up hitting the wrong key or two keys just because their fingers are different.

Some man should be given a huge guvvy grant to look into the sexist design of keyboards that is for sure.

EV700

aperpatnly if polepe witre lkie tihs, it is esay to raed you msut lavee the frist and lsat lteter in the wirght palcae tohguh.

GoneTroppo

I can only hope when you are up sh*t creek & knee deep in cr*p that you don't ask someone to spell out, you are in trouble. I would say that it would not matter to you if someone could not spell if you needed a hand one day. I don't care if someone has a spelling problem or grammar problem. You have issues my friend are you better than them I think not

Cheers Ozymacca

not gone say anything utill after six, so there

Having taught for 30 years and but more than the occasional line tthrough a spelling error I wonder if I was off the track. The student was clearly communicating so why worry if the human mind can do wonders with the passage below.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the
olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.? Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

Regards
SKI'er

Gonetroppo
Maybe you could ask exploreoz as you seem to have so much time on your hands. You could go through all the posts & fix all the grammar & spelling problems to keep you happy as I don't think any one else cares.

Cheers Ozymacca

haha gone troppo - you've been able to maintain a full day of entertainment from such a short post - how easily people are able to get fired up...

And let's not mention dangling participles. That is something I won't put up with.

Have you noticed catch phrases creeping into TV news bulletins, like "any time soon"?

I heard a WA TV sports presenter say "should of" instead of "should have".

I always thought talking back to the telly was an early sign of dementia but I just can't help myself.

ABC radio news once urged the Fed Govt not to "lose its bottle" over some issue. I almost rang them up over that one.

I really need to get a life.

What's the phrase? Adventure before Dementia.

Don't get me on to split infinitives.

What a bugger it would be, if this world was full of PERFECT B******s. Who cares if people make small mistakes.

GoneTroppo,

Are you consuming a refreshment while posting this thought ;)

Cheers Luke

All in all it's been a fun day.
Here's to refreshments and some dangling particulates to nibble on.

Over and out!

GoneTroppo Member (FNQ),

Hear you have wasted yet another Sunday, please go back to you little whole and leave us all alone for the next weak. You may reurn next weakend if you dare, but reeling it has all bin good fun, thanks.

You can see that you cant have the last werd afterall.

GoneTroppo

Having read your post it is obvious you have too much spare time.

Tjilpi