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[Ambrosious]

i dunt no. mye spelin is durrn neer perrfict.

 

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[Juliangel]

I figure some days my fingers get ahead of my thoughts and I spell things wrong. My most common one is spelling the (teh). I have bad days so I figure everyone else does too. Hey Laurel can we get spell check????

 

[Ezzy]

Nope...

I get a headache just trying to understand my self.


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[Bobtoad777]

I am sorry CB please bear with me until the spell checker is installed on the bb. Please don't hit me.

 

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[R Nitelight]

I'm with you, sweets. A spelling mistake is fine. A typo is fine. It's something we all do. But when misspelling is used as a warped form of style.....
Grrrrrrrrrrr...

 

[*Eve*]

I'll be the first to admit that I can't spell for shit so I try not to jump on anyone else's back for spelling errors unless they like to point out how other people have mispelled things. Spelling errors don't bother me too much because 99% of the time I understand what someone is at least trying to say.

 

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[Naked Hunny]

Ill admit that sometimes i have problems with spelling but my bigger problem is when my words run together. Its not laziness its because I have carpal tunnel in my left wrist and sometimes its just easier to skip the damn spacebar than to stretch my wrist in a direction it doesnt want to go, not like i would be able to press the space bar hard enough for it to work anyway.

 

[Shelby]

Let's say it all together boys & girls....

Reread before you send.

If it still looks fine to you, send away. If you are in another sort of world/time warp, I'll try to decipher.

ABWCDKOHYDOLLLMPQRSTUVVVYZ. Now I know my ABZ'S....

 

[Bobtoad777]

like i said i am sorry i type fater than i think. i rarely use capital letters in my sentences and my punctuation sucks but hopefully the spell checker will help me out

 

[Ambrosious]

NH-please go spend 19.95 for an ergonomic keyboard. I had too because I was getting the CT symptoms. It has made an incredible difference!

Now if I could just stop masturbating, it would probably clear up 100%!

 

[Shelby]

Toaddy,

I've seen you play with us much better than that. Can't play smart & dumb in the same post. People get spanked for less than that.

 

[Bobtoad777]

Shelby,

it merely depends on my state of consciousciousness on how well i can punctuate spell and capitalize

 

[Dirk13]

i mispell on perous on certain words to make em shourter, like em for them and shitz like that.


*taps nakeds shoulder* 'YOU DIDN'T ASK' and starts beating the living shitz out of me!!! "AAHHH!!! help help!"

 

[Nicole]

Let's say it all together boys & girls....

Reread before you send.

If it still looks fine to you, send away. If you are in another sort of world/time warp, I'll try to decipher.

I'm not picking because I'm not perfect, but I agree ... Re-read what you have written CAREFULLY and if you think it looks fine then go ahead and hit the submit button, if not fix it and then submit

Or maybe some of you are just in too much of a hurry to do that. I type fast too, but take the time to re-read, then when my post does make it to the board I read it again and if I happen to still see a mistake then I edit it.

BUT ... then I'm one that thinks we should all have fun and that spelling really doesn't matter that much, as long as you can understand the basic's of where that person is going

 

[Laurel]

How many of us are grammatically correct 100% of the time when we talk to people? No one is - you'd sound like a freak. There's a looseness to colloquial speaking, and that's fine - so long as people can understand you. The better of a speaker you are, the more respect your ideas will garner, or course, but what's "better" in a verbal conversation isn't necessarily the same thing as what's "better" in a book or story.

Same goes here. This is conversation. We're bound to make typos despite our best intentions. Working yourself into a snitt over a misplaced homonym is bit much. However, when debates/discussions come up, I do find myself giving more credence to posts that are grammatically correct, properly spelled, and not written as one huge paragraph. The ideas count, but the presentation does as well.

When I was younger, I went through a phase where I cussed like a truckdriver (no offense to truckdrivers intended). I did it mainly to piss off my grandma, and succeeded. What cleaned up my potty mouth (to some degree, anyhow) was my English teacher's words: "No, profanity is not evil. It can provide emphasis. However, when used in an improper context, it gives people an excuse to discount your ideas."

I feel that bad grammar & punctuation in BB posts does much the same thing - it gives people an excuse to discount what you say, to treat you as stupid and your opinions as irrelevent. We all know that spelling is not an indicator of intelligence. However, if you're debating an issue on a thread and you don't take the time to at least glance over your post to make sure there are no glaring errors, it does say a lot about you.

If you're just flirting or goofing off, who cares. I do find intentional or rampant misspellings to be annoying, only because it takes me longer to read as I decipher the words phonetically and try to figure out WTF is being said. Communication, baby. Be clear and coherent, that's the key - not whether you can spell "antiadrenergic".

 

[Guest]

Its not the occasional error that bothers me. Its the members whose every word seems to be mispelled.

Sureely noobudy dooes tthatt herre. doo theey?

 

[Whispersecret]

Ill admit that sometimes i have problems with spelling but my bigger problem is when my words run together. Its not laziness its because I have carpal tunnel in my left wrist and sometimes its just easier to skip the damn spacebar than to stretch my wrist in a direction it doesnt want to go, not like i would be able to press the space bar hard enough for it to work anyway.

Hey, have you tried training yourself to use your right thumb for the space bar?

Also, I heartily agree with Laurel. I do notice frequent spelling/grammatical errors and take that into consideration when I'm reading a post. I tend to think either that person is too lazy to proofread, or they're horrible spellers. My knee-jerk reaction to bad spelling is, "Jeez, this person is illiterate." Sorry, but that's what immediately comes to mind. Of course I know that bad spelling doesn't equal stupidity, but still, it taints the content of the post somewhat.

The whole thing baffles me. I know it's not politically correct to worry about what others think of you, but honestly, I can't imagine being so blase' as to blithely post something riddled with mistakes.

 

[Ezzy]

Well...

Hey, have you tried training yourself to use your right thumb for the space bar?

...My knee-jerk reaction to bad spelling is, "Jeez, this person is illiterate." Sorry, but that's what immediately comes to mind. Of course I know that bad spelling doesn't equal stupidity, but still, it taints the content of the post somewhat.

As a dyslexic illiterate I do have problems. That is why I use Word to check the rest out for me.


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Ps. If I can do it, and still appear to make sense sometimes on quick posts. Why can't others.

 

[Myrrdin]

I know its low tech, but......

Anyone renember those things we used to have in the old days. Lots of pieces of paper between two cardboard covers. Called a dictionary.
I know the plot's not very great but at least it explains all the words.
Remember... Those things they used to give you practically free when you joined book clubs ?
~Runs for the door, using dictionary to fend off rotten tomatoes.~

 

[Ezzy]

Whats a book club...

LOL.


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[SpecialK]

Bad spellers of the world UNTIE!


(I really don't think I'm THAT bad a speller, but I think the line is damn funny!)

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