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[Erika]

However I’d hate for people to not post out of fear of their mistakes leading to ridicule. My Brother in Law is dyslexic, he is intelligent and articulate, but his written skills are somewhat substandard due to the dyslexia.

Excellent point. Thank you.

 

[Nansafan]

I blame part of the poor spelling increase on computers. People assume that by hitting spell check, and making the suggested corrections, the document is correct. I see it all the time at work. Spell check just checks that the words are spelled correctly, not that you've used the correct word. I received an email from my brother yesterday where he typed "where going to lunch now, see you later." He meant, "we're going..." Just proof of the spell check thing and how it isn't always what you meant to say. I have been blessed as being a good speller. My brother unfortunately is not. Same parents, same educational background, (12 years of Catholic school) he just isn't wired that way. Typos do happen and I am the first to admit when I've made a mistake. I won't point it out to anyone. I just sit here and cringe when I read some of the posts, except for the PM-speak ones, I can't read those. Use a period once in awhile, please. (down from soap box now).

 

[tigsmom]

I like when things are spelt right, but I'm not upset when they aren't. I get excluded from having points taken off my papers at school when things arent spelt right, but that dosen't mean that I don't check to make sure that they are spelt the correct way.

Please tell me you wrote "spelt" on purpose. The word is "spelled".

My family is notorious for bad spelling, I'm the one they all come to for help.
Katie's friends call large/uncommon words "katie words" because she is great with definitions, but can't spell for beans. :lol:

 

[tigsmom]

[/list]However I’d hate for people to not post out of fear of their mistakes leading to ridicule. My Brother in Law is dyslexic, he is intelligent and articulate, but his written skills are somewhat substandard due to the dyslexia.

While Katie does not have dyslexia she does have a problem with getting the thought from her head to the paper, which is why she doesn't post too often.
She, like your BIL, is far better with her verbal skills.
I've noticed most of the offenders are our younger members which is why I don't say much, but it doesn't give me much confidence in today's teaching methods.

 

[Shaman]

Well, I'm occasionally guilty of spelling and grammar mistakes...but I try to re-read and make sure everything posted makes sense. No one is perfect, but I don't think the occasional mistake is a big deal. Some people though, constantly type away, using internet-speak, bad grammar and awful spelling. Thats okay too, but it doesn't really help their image. I agree with Maria, bad grammar/spelling reflects people's education, whether they like it or not.

But, languages, both spoken and written, evolve. What may be considered wrong today, could many years down the line be correct.

So...let us jion the evolusion of the english languege...
Then agen it could be sed that american english is alraedy screwed up... :lookaroun

:lol:

(The last part...I was kidding..btw...just in case.)

:lookaroun

 

[tigsmom]

...So...let us jion the evolusion of the english languege...
Then agen it could be sed that american english is alraedy screwed up... :lookaroun

Reminds me of an email I received...

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the
plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose,
but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should
never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest
full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't
the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot
and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a
pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are
teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet
hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural
of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and
also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never
say methren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his
and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking
English:

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it
was time to present the present.
8. At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head
of a bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how
to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when the does are
present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer
line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow
to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw
got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22. I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt..

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For
example... If you have a rough cough, climbing can
be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no
egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple
nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented
in England. We take English for granted. But if we
explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is
neither from Guinea -nor is it a pig.. And why is it that
writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? Doesn't it seem crazy that
you can make amends but not one amend? If you
have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but
one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught,
why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking
English should be committed to an asylum for the
verbally insane.

In what language do people recite at a play and play at
a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have
noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim
chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man
and a wiseguy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in
which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an
alarm goes off by going on. If Dad is Pop, how come
Mom isn't Mop?

 

[Lil'mermaid]

Please tell me you wrote "spelt" on purpose. The word is "spelled".

My family is notorious for bad spelling, I'm the one they all come to for help.
Katie's friends call large/uncommon words "katie words" because she is great with definitions, but can't spell for beans. :lol:

MAN! I really thought that I checked that better!

My vocab is decent when compared to a normal adult, maybe slightly better. My friends are mostly special education students, like myself, and they love to hear me talk to the teachers. I impress them greatly once again proving not everyone fits in to a classifacation.

 

[Yellow Shoes]

It is the difference between the right word and the wrong word.
It is the same as looking at your cat and calling it a table.

"Spelt" is a kind of wheat. It is clearly the wrong word to express your thought.

I am forgiving of typos--"hte" instead of "the", for example. My fingers are not as fast as my brain, either.

But PLEEEEZE use some white space--it makes the posts easier to read. And if you simply refuse, then for the love of all things holy, put a space after a period!

Maria, once again your insight is priceless. People with poor grammAr and spelling simply come off as less intelligent that those who take 30 seconds to proofread their posts.

 

[DMC-12]

I am a bit dyslexic... It does not show here (on the forums) as much... but when I chat online... it becomes a bit more apparent. :lol:

 

[Figment1986]

I was never really taught how to spell really well. I do have problems with English class. (Never had the right teacher for my problem) It takes me longer to learn to spell. I cannot just write it down about 25 times in a row. I have medical condition in my wrists. (And yet, until Jr. year, my English teachers kept giving me essay tests that I could never complete thus lowering my grade...)

True that computers have decreased spelling. When I would type my essays, I would have a few errors I would have made commonly on the forums. (Like shortcuts)

I do hate bad spelling, but because I have it myself and try to keep it down, I cannot really hate it. I even have a gift for making out what people mean when they have bad grammar and spelling.

 

[JBSLJames]

People with poor grammAr and spelling simply come off as less intelligent that those who take 30 seconds to proofread their posts.

i no what u meen i just caint understood sum of da posts witten wike dis

:hammer:

 

[DDuckFan130]

Then again, I hear a lot of educated people saying things like "She did good" on a daily basis.

Overall, I think for most people it's just a matter of getting lazy. And God knows I'm as guilty of that as anyone else.

Ooh, you got me on that one. I'm an English Education major and I ALWAYS get that wrong. Then again, since middle school I've heard teachers say it wrong as well. Therefore, I wasn't really conditioned on the right way of saying it :lol:.

Aside from that, English has always been my best and favorite subject (the only AP tests I ever passed in my high school career ), which is why I'm going to teach that, and not math.

 

[Erika]

Aside from that, English has always been my best and favorite subject (the only AP tests I ever passed in my high school career ), which is why I'm going to teach that, and not math.

Are you like me? I have found that many of us who do well in English do poorly in math, and vice versa. Left brain/right brain and all that.

 

[DDuckFan130]

Are you like me? I have found that many of us who do well in English do poorly in math, and vice versa. Left brain/right brain and all that.

Yes I admit it...I'm a math moron :lol:. I've always gotten C's in math. However, one semester in 10th grade I got an A in pre-calculus. I've never been more proud of myself :lol:. But that's about where it ends because my C streak resumed. I substitute at an elementary school and I hate it when kids ask me to help them in math because I'm afraid I won't know the answer. Luckily I've been able to help them though...for now :hammer:.

 

[tigsmom]

Yes I admit it...I'm a math moron :lol:. I've always gotten C's in math. However, one semester in 10th grade I got an A in pre-calculus. I've never been more proud of myself :lol:. But that's about where it ends because my C streak resumed. I substitute at an elementary school and I hate it when kids ask me to help them in math because I'm afraid I won't know the answer. Luckily I've been able to help them though...for now :hammer:.

I'm mathlexic as well. :wave:

 

[DDuckFan130]

:sohappy: Yay you're cool too :lol:

 

[nicholas]

Huge stickler for grammar and spelling here. Nowhere near perfect at it, but compared to what I come across on a day to day basis, I feel like a genius.

I especially love when friends correct my grammar after I've said something that is actually proper. And am always somewhat embarrassed when I encounter people who speak English as a second language and do it better than Americans.

 

[xfkirsten]

I hate people who post with no capitals, no spellcheck, and no punctuation whatsoever. It drives me nuts. There is no character limit in a message, and if you're really in that much of a hurry, don't bother replying. :lol: I can understand a few typos. With a keyboard that busted and has really sticky keys, I'm guilty of those myself regularly. It's entire posts like that which drive me nuts. I'm getting so fed up with it that I will not pay attention to any post like that, and if I'm in a really cranky mood, I'll give a bad rep for it. :lol:

-Kirsten

 

[TiggerBW]

I appreciate good spelling and grammar since I am a school teacher.
I teach it!

 

[Maria]

Are you like me? I have found that many of us who do well in English do poorly in math, and vice versa. Left brain/right brain and all that.

I am like you too... had a hard time on those assignments that included numbers, formulas, finance, accounting and such... but I was good on all of the other ones!