Spelling and grammar

[Dave20046]

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[Sid Squid]

But it does matter.

Anyway I'll quote myself from one of the stickies at the top of T&T:

Originally Posted by Me!

Write intelligibly. This is no comment at all on anybody's level of education and literary skill, but if we can't read it our willingness to assist will be of no use at all.

My overall feeling on the subject: It's my responsibility to make myself understood, it is incumbent upon me to make what I write easily understandable, if you don't understand me then it is my failing.
Know what? I think the reverse is true too.
We have a wonderful language, it's one of the main things that separates us from grunting animals, it can have nuance and finesse, it can be succinct or even plain terse, or it can be verbose and floral, it can be gloriously communicative, or it can be vandalised and stunted.
Which would you choose? What would actually want for yours?

PS. I suffer from lysdexia* too - it's a sorry, sorry excuse for not trying.

* Did you see what I did there? Ain't language fun!

PPS I screw it up only too often myself, mea culpa!
My defence: Making a mistake is oh-so-different from not caring.

[dizzyblonde]

Sir Sidney..I love your new signature


ooops off topic

[Sid Squid]

Meandering OT just for a moment: Which bit?

[appollo1]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

YC, i could accuse you of the same thing almost but in reverse...taking the time to miss-spell swears so they get past the swear filter when you could easily choose something else.

now that really annoys me as i did that in a recent post where i was having a good old moan and i got a 5 point warning fine whatever the telling off smack on the hand thing is. yet i still see people doing it.

nobody is perfect when it comes to spelling and everyone on hear shooed be reely patient and understanding but i do believe that as most people are using a keybored of sum sort them there is know excuse for dooing text speek.

some people on here (yes me included) are getting on a bit and their eyesight is not too good, yes me again so trying to read text speak and work out what it is meant to say does take a bit of time

Mr Barwell,

I don't find your posts inelligable at all.

As long as you get your thoughts across i don't see a problem.

I think for those with dyslexia the written word is a bit like a foriengh (sp) language. A little understanding goes a long way.

I don't see why you should use a spell checker before you post.

[Bibio]

speaking as another dyslexic, all i can say is 'yes most dyslexic people are lazy but also very intelligent'. why cant people just accept that dyslexics cant spell? would any of you go and tell a coloured person they are an 'N' word. no you would not as it's not polite. well you are doing the exact same to a dyslexic telling them they cant spell.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

No one who ha tried Opera against it ever has from my experience.

I tried Opera & don't like it as much as Firefox. (Which also has a spellchecker built in).

To the OP I've stood up for you in the past, but very nearly pulled you up lately about how you put r in the middle of words (carn't & thorght) Am I right in thinking that's how you speak as opposed to being wholly down to your dyslexia?

thanks Dan

Oh, you've pinched my name as well as my bike!

now when righting the first post it took me almost 45min WITH a spell checker to get it to a reasonable standard and in my view (for me) thats about the best i can do as far as grammar/ spelling is concerned

and i also knew that "sorry i’m not prepared to go out of my way to make my spelling better" would throw up posts like YC's.

Now YC i didn't say i wouldn't try did i, so stop getting all defensive and read it carefully, i sead i wouldn't go out of my way, meaning I'm not going to make sure its perfect But i will use spell checker IF i can and will make sure it makes sense to the best of my abilities.

as sead i didn't come hear for a lesson on how to spell i came hear to enjoy my self.

also if i wasn't prepaid to make the effort then why would i post this thread in the first place? i could have just told people that questioned my spelling to go jump. Did i ? No i didn't i tried to take on board what people where saying, i downloaded spell checkers that were recommended to me, the one i didn't like the other is ok but haven't used it much as I'm not at home for 3-4 days and I'm using some one elses PC.

i don't want you to take this the wrong way YC but do you understand where I'm coming from?

and thanks for the reply every one some interesting views on the topic rely.

and i think just to add some more information about my dyslexia

i was only diagnosed with it in year 11, now my mum and dad paid for the test because the schools didn't think i had it because i didn't suffer from all the symptoms, as it turns out i have pretty severe dyslexia that affects my righting and spelling also putting pen to paper and been able to structure sentences, at the time of the test in year 11 i got the following results

(average for some one without dyslexia is 50 based on age)

reading was 52 (average)
righting was 28 (year 6 standard)
spelling was 33 (year 7-8 )
problem solving/working out patterns and stuff was 93 (way above average)
maths 49 (i think)

thats all i can remember will have to get my Analise out and have a look again, but the man that did the test thought it was strange that i vary so much as most people are at one level where as i was all over the scale.

PS test costs £300+

sorry for the long post and just to prove a point there were 42 wrong spellings and punctuation in that and im sure the forum spell checker isn't that good.

EDDIT stu no i don't have a accent the way i spell is finectical well how it sounds to me and i do have a tendency to add letter where they are not needed like "R" "E" and geting bd mixed up