Spelling and grammar

Oh dear. We're all going to hell in a handbasket. Diversity is a good thing IMHO.

For an important, profesional report (such as a scientific paper or financial assesment etc etc). I would expect nothing less than perfect spelling and grammar.

For an internet forum, as long as the typing is sufficient enough for me to understand what the poster is saying<i'm fine with that. My dad dosn't have the best writing skills, but I always understand what he's on about. My mum, on the other hand, is excellent with spelling and grammar.

As for the spoken word, it is easier if peolpe talk clearly and in a manner that I can understand, I don't cope with accents and bad speaking easily (inotice some people are good at deciphering mumbling folk but I cant). I will ask people to repeat themselves 100times if i cant understand them

OP, i've always understood your posts. Yea, your not writing to English Degree standard, but so what? Most folk understand and at the end of the day, when you need an answer to a question, thats what counts

im a heroundous speller and you know what.

If you dont like...........................................Amm end it for me

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Lets all just let the little things go is the key, the big things that really need pointing out fair enough but a word here and a word there between online friends, whats the big deal?

+1, spidey for Best Mod Ever award

Im a Dyslexic. I have a built in spell checker on firefox. Checks all my forums posts and its certainly improving my spelling steadily as I try to remember what I done to spell a word wrong. All it does is like Word put a red line under the word.

I know back here at the ar$e end of the thread not many people will notice this but here is a link to those who want to install the dictionary on firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

Obviously look down to English (British)...

Hope that helps some.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I should be writing an essay right now. Sick of grammar without you lot talking about it!

Friendly I may be, but I still answer plenty of groundhog-day questions because people can't be arsed to use the search function. So long as they are polite about it.

And yes, I do see asking someone else (the forum at large); to go out of their way to help you as very impolite if you cannot even bring yourself to take a minute or so to type intelligibly

Pot - kettle

Have you ever thought you may put people off posting here because they worry about what you will jump at them with? You don't own this forum....do you?

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

I don't. Unsurprisingly.

Ask yourselves a question; what would occur if the use of language were to deteriorate to such a point because, for instance, we decided that there was no need to be constrained by standards, or a feeling that we ought be free to pick and choose from any that we wished, such that we ended up speaking so differently that we no longer had a commonality?

What then?

We have a language that we now disparately speak, is anyone attempting to say that that's a good thing? Foolish in the extreme. That way lies the cultural and societal break up of our common tongue.

Am I exaggerating? Say no and strike me down, then think deeper about this.

It matters.

Add that dyslexia is still a carp excuse - if I can master that, then any on here can.

Oh ffs lighten up

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

For an important, profesional report (such as a scientific paper or financial assesment etc etc). I would expect nothing less than perfect spelling and grammar.

For an internet forum, as long as the typing is sufficient enough for me to understand what the poster is saying<i'm fine with that. My dad dosn't have the best writing skills, but I always understand what he's on about. My mum, on the other hand, is excellent with spelling and grammar.

As for the spoken word, it is easier if peolpe talk clearly and in a manner that I can understand, I don't cope with accents and bad speaking easily (inotice some people are good at deciphering mumbling folk but I cant). I will ask people to repeat themselves 100times if i cant understand them

OP, i've always understood your posts. Yea, your not writing to English Degree standard, but so what? Most folk understand and at the end of the day, when you need an answer to a question, thats what counts

I agree - Well put

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Ed

I had the benefit - or perhaps it wasn't a benefit - of a through grounding in English grammar from the De La Salle brothers, and I got the cane if I got it wrong.

My fave book is probably still 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, about the social upheavals in a Midlands town - it could even be my home town, Shrewsbury - caused by the great Reform Act 1832. The English is very difficult. But I also like rubbish American crime thrillers where the English is simply terrible.

Takes all sorts to make a world... even with three dots...

Gotcha!

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

As for the spoken word, it is easier if peolpe talk clearly and in a manner that I can understand, I don't cope with accents and bad speaking easily (inotice some people are good at deciphering mumbling folk but I cant). I will ask people to repeat themselves 100times if i cant understand them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCKp4...eature=related

Can tha tell mi what this fella's on abart?