Spelling and grammar
 

Right ok this thread to all the people that consistently moan about spelling, be it text speak or just miss spelling of words and even grammar. Well to be polite it’s getting on my T*Ts, fair enough i know I’m exceptionally bad but sorry i’m not prepared to go out of my way to make my spelling better for the few of you that moan.... I don’t come on a forum in my leisure time to be told that my spelling s*cks , thanks for telling me but i know i have been trying to deal with it for many years to no real avail. If i wanted to be moaned at and told about it constantly i would go back to school....

And I’m afraid to say you would be horrified to see my hand writing but luckily for you, you don’t have to see it.
And thank you to those that seem to stick up for me/others when the time is right, also thank you to those that have given me spellcheckers to use with IE but sometimes it’s just not possible to use them EG at collage (user restrictions) or someone else’s pc as the don’t generally want programs that they don’t need.

This thread is just to make it known that I KNOW I CARNT SPELL and you don’t need to tell me because i already know!! and i’m sorry but i can’t do anything about it without taking years of graft and going back to day one of school.

Here is some info on what i have DYSLEXIA

PS i used word to right this.

FYI i dont want this thread full of rubish

thanks Dan

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Gotta agree here. I can see it from both sides - I find it really annoying, but I've learned to relax and stop being pedantic about it. I agree some posts on the forum are (or have been) a bit txt speak and hard to understand because of the lack of punctuation, however Barwel's are not amongst these - they are reasonably clear and easy to make sense of.

Give the guy a break and chill out.

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Barwell, if you use Opera 10 it has a spell checker built into it as standard, nothing to download and add. Just make sure you switch the standard dictionary to English UK from the pre-set US version.

That, of course, is if you want to spell check all your posts.

I've made my feeling about spelling made clear a number of times before so i'm not gonna say it again. Suffice to say ive warned people about their constant picking people up on it in the past.

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Text speak drives me crazy! That is just sheer laziness. :smt093

Words spelled wrongly due to dyslexia is a different matter. That is unfortunate for the person suffering from it, and beyond their control.

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I can read your posts barwel. I understand why you make the mistakes, my brother is dyslexic, so I'm not ignorant.

However the thing that gets up my nostrils is Txt speak, as I find it difficult to read. I acquired an English Language A level once upon a time, even I make mistakes lately...but then I'm getting further away from the age of 30, so I blame senility ;-).

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cheers for the replys all

and spidey i would use opera but i carn use it on the collage pc's or my gf's lap top (dosent want it full of junk) i have a spell check on my pc now thogh :)

and i do try and stay away from txt speak unless i dont have a clue how to spell the word then i some time slip one in there tends to be U more than any other

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I too suffer, but I said "I do" so it's all my fault.
No I too have dyslexia
joking aside, I've downloaded that ABC with the tick under it in the top right part of where you reply to a thread and it goes through simple questions.

as for grammar, OK I'm crap, no really I am.

and too All, lighten up, it is very nearly Christmas. Good will to all men.
(sexiest I know.)

Also I a bad boy as I always use trailing dots, well mostly.

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Totally agree with that. i posted on the org last week from my new blackbery and realised that cos i was using a mobile by defaulti was using text speak when there was no need to, so went back and wrote it out properly.

Spell check and everything else apart, Opera rules over IE, tell her to try it for herself but give it at least a week or 2 and i promise you she wont go back to IE. No one who ha tried Opera against it ever has from my experience.

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lrn2spell XD

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lol...that'll be me then:smt043