Your or You're??

[MrBates2]

What else drives you crazy as you read posts here?

Affect vs Effect?
To vs Too, or Two???

 

[sr71plt]

None of it drives me crazy. I'm not that anal retentive. As a professional book editor, I see it, though, and it pops out (not always in my own work). But these are common mistakes that even come from professional writers and editors (which is why we have editors and that even editors use them). Do I slit my wrists when I see it? Do I initiate complaining threads about it? No.

It's so hard for an author to acquire an "editor" here on Literotica, most of whom have no editorial training at all, and this is an amateur fun free-read site, so I think the readers should just be happy with what they get. And other writers would do better to concentrate on their own writing than tossing pot shots at the writing of others.

We also have this same thread a couple of times a month. And for exhaustive lists of trouble words, you can check out the editors forum.

 

[oggbashan]

What else drives you crazy as you read posts here?

Affect vs Effect?
To vs Too, or Two???

On posts? It doesn't really matter. Most of us don't spell check posts, and the errors could just be typos.

Stories? They are different. The story has to have a strong and interesting premise to survive repeated poor spelling.

 

[Carnevil9]

It drives me crazy. It's not that hard to proofread a short post before pushing the button. If people don't care enough to make sure their post is properly written, why should I give a shit what they have to say? And the same goes triple for actually stories.

Especially with there, their, and they're.

 

[patientlee]

There is no requirement to check through old threads before posting. Just like there's no requirement to reply to every thread.

 

[Swilly]

If it's a typo, who cares. We all make them...and if you browse the forum and post on a phone, they're easy to make.

If someone really doesn't get which word to use, I shake my head and move on. Someone else's lack of education isn't going to spoil my day if I can help it.

 

[R. Richard]

The public education system requires three or four years of high school English and we still get, "Check you're mail." "It's there book." "I'm two busy."

 

[Swilly]

The public education system requires three or four years of high school English and we still get, "Check you're mail." "It's there book." "I'm two busy."

I think we notice it more than we used to because people write more. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, forum and news story comments to name a few. Half literate people in the past were able to hide it.

 

[Hypoxia]

I think we notice it more than we used to because people write more. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, forum and news story comments to name a few. Half literate people in the past were able to hide it.

And those half-lits likely wouldn't have kept even private diaries, let alone public blogs-posts-tweets.

Those bemoaning USA primary and secondary education conveniently overlook that previous generations saw huge percentages of dropouts. (I was one, too, once. As was Mr Gates, but at a different level.) I blame a system that lacks academic alternatives -- trade schools aren't kewl, alas.

EDIT: This is my post #1234 (base 10). Good thing I don't believe in numerology. Good thing my hands have ten digits, not eight -- I hate octal math.

 

[MrFoxwood]

It drives me crazy. It's not that hard to proofread a short post before pushing the button. If people don't care enough to make sure their post is properly written, why should I give a shit what they have to say? And the same goes triple for actually stories.

Especially with there, their, and they're.

Please tell me that was intentional.

Personally I couldn't give a shit about typos in a forum post, unless it makes me laugh and then I fucking love it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Personally, I blame the reliance on a Spell Checker.
But I do find these simple mistakes very distracting.

 

[slyc_willie]

it doesnt drive mee crasy atall. posts is posts.






(Someone had to do it )

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Of course typos don't really matter on forum posts, except when someone is trying to flame you for something other than typos and they aren't succeeding. Then they pull out the "It's you're not your, asshole." And most of the time they forget that all important comma just before their asshole.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It drives me crazy. It's not that hard to proofread a short post before pushing the button. If people don't care enough to make sure their post is properly written, why should I give a shit what they have to say? And the same goes triple for actually stories.

Especially with there, their, and they're.

Damn, MrFoxwood pointed out the "actually" before I saw this one

I used to be very snotty about other people's spelling, and TBH I still lean that way, but I try to rein it in because I've come to understand that it's NOT that easy for everybody. Some brains are good at remembering when to use "their" vs "there"; for others that knowledge just doesn't stick. I have a friend with bad dyslexia, and the spellchecker only gets him so far; he's a smart guy who's really passionate about his job, and I'm uncomfortably aware that once upon a time I would have made a snap judgement and assumed he was stupid/lazy because of his spelling.

 

[patientlee]

Hear, hear.

We're all terrible at something. Some of our challenges are more easily hidden.

When my little guy was 3, he picked up a book, and in ounces, "I got my Nook." I said, "Honey, that's actually a book." He said, "I got my atchually book!"

He's cute.

Damn, MrFoxwood pointed out the "actually" before I saw this one

I used to be very snotty about other people's spelling, and TBH I still lean that way, but I try to rein it in because I've come to understand that it's NOT that easy for everybody. Some brains are good at remembering when to use "their" vs "there"; for others that knowledge just doesn't stick. I have a friend with bad dyslexia, and the spellchecker only gets him so far; he's a smart guy who's really passionate about his job, and I'm uncomfortably aware that once upon a time I would have made a snap judgement and assumed he was stupid/lazy because of his spelling.

 

[Swilly]

Hear, hear.

We're all terrible at something. Some of our challenges are more easily hidden.

When my little guy was 3, he picked up a book, and in ounces, "I got my Nook." I said, "Honey, that's actually a book." He said, "I got my atchually book!"

He's cute.

In ounces? My point about typing on these damned phones with auto correct made perfectly here!

Kids come out with best stuff, don't they?

 

[patientlee]

In ounces? My point about typing on these damned phones with auto correct made perfectly here!

Kids come out with best stuff, don't they?

Crap. Announced. I got interrupted and didn't even reread.

So glad I could support your argument.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The current and next generation will do nothing but text speak in the future.

Stories will be told in the shorthand of texting and all in 144 character chunks.

 

[lizxxxj]

Who and whom. Mostly when people use "whom" where it is supposed to be "who" in an attempt to sound smarter. If you don't know then you don't know. English isn't even my first language, get yourself together.

 

[colddiesel]

Nothing much drives me crazy, either here or elsewhere, but I enjoy the way other posters drive other each other crazy - and it rarely has much to do with spelling/grammar or any particular content of the particular post.

 

[StrangeLife]

Your gonna have to do a lot more to drive me crazy. As long as a story is readable, a little "creative grammar" doesn't hurt me.

Of course readable is the operative word here...

 

[TxRad]

Since I try to write the way people speak, you can throw most of the rules for grammar and spelling out the window.

so get over it.

 

[Acktion]

As long as I can make out what it says, I'm all right with it. Either in forum posts or stories. After reading Beowulf in Olde English, I'm a bit hard to throw.

Also, tanks to the sped redding course I tooked, most thymes I don't realy sea it.

 

[MichaelinChina]

'would of' instead of 'would have'.

 

[Handley_Page]

'would of' instead of 'would have'.

"Different than", instead of "Different to"