This is really annoying me

[USEDCAR]

The Spelling.Grammar Nazis On this here website


I admit i suck at spelling and grammar but i don't need someone keep reminding me about it. Its really annoying seeing someone make a quality thread and having 500 people make fun of his spelling and grammar. Good for you that you can spell and use proper grammar but please show respect for people who are less fortunate in that department. I'm sure we all have a weak spot in something.

And if someone spelling and grammar sucks just move on.

 

[spooger]

The Spelling.Grammar Nazis On this here website ....clip... if someone spelling and grammar sucks just move on.

if only people could abide by this suggestion....if only life were so simple!

Yes, I agree completely ... but there are some cases where the poor spelling or grammar make understanding impossible

USEDCAR is not one word, it's two words.

funny......but rude....

 

[spooger]

That's why I keep my posts short.

if that's the case....then you must also avoid the penis Nazi

I don't use dots as an ellipsis...............................i use them for pause ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................dammit

 

[Ramindra]

The Spelling.Grammar Nazis On this here website


I admit i suck at spelling and grammar but i don't need someone keep reminding me about it. Its really annoying seeing someone make a quality thread and having 500 people make fun of his spelling and grammar. Good for you that you can spell and use proper grammar but please show respect for people who are less fortunate in that department. I'm sure we all have a weak spot in something.

And if someone spelling and grammar sucks just move on.

I recently sent a comment to one Jubber who wrote some text that must have been 500 words long. There were no punctuation marks and no capitals. The grammar and syntax was about kindy standard as was the spelling. I wonder what the point of writing something if no one can read it.

Also, many people on these boards use English as a second or even third language. They are interested in what English speaking people think and say. We have enough difficulties with proper English. English that has been totally bastardised becomes almost incomprehensible to us.

If you really care about what you write and say and if you really care that it is read and understood by other people, why not spend a few seconds using that funny little icon in the post toolbar...you know, the one with ABC and a tick.

If you are just writing to please yourself as some kind of egotistical jaunt, and if you don't care that people cannot read your post, then just ignore the grammar and spelling police, and us poor simpletons who fate determined we were to be born in a non-English speaking country.

 

[blackbeltninja]

USEDCAR

Get a browser like Firefox (free from http://www.firefox.com) which has a built-in spell checker, and a learning dictionary which you can add words to. There is really no excuse for poor spelling these days.

Grammar - different story, but as annoying. Fact is, anyone who has graduated from high school in an English-speaking country should be able to write passable English.

-d-

 

[AlinCanada]

I try not to get upset by the yanks posting.

 

[frankfrank]

Spell Check

I halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea see
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose been fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong
I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

 

[Blakiepoo]

As much as they annoy you, you should realize that trying to understand something written horribly annoys everyone else much more.

 

[evil_danger]

There's no excuse for typing something that can't be read, such as those big blocks of text that just roll into one long worded mess.

But spellings are something that doesn't bother me. What's more important is the message, what the person is trying to say.

Edit: P.S. I had no idea Jub had a spell check, that's what I get for typing all my posts in the "quick reply" box.

Edit 2: and what I have put in red is the only thing MS word told me was wrong, but thats the lack of a '.

 

[prettyboysing]

To each his own, but I feel you make a stronger position when you present yourself better. Maybe it's wrong, but I automatically question someone's point of view if they don't know the difference between there, they're and their and English is his or her first language.

My spelling is horrible, too. So if there's a word I question, I take the two seconds to look it up.

That said, none of us is perfect, so I usually don't take the effort to correct someone else unless I'm purposely trying to be an ass.

 

[KaraBulut]

Also, many people on these boards use English as a second or even third language. They are interested in what English speaking people think and say. We have enough difficulties with proper English. English that has been totally bastardised becomes almost incomprehensible to us.

As someone who learned English as a second language, it is a most challenging language. Every day, my partner (also an ESL) and I find some new phrase, word or idiom that we've never heard before.

I'm not one to rant but there is nothing more frustrating that wanting to understand a post and failing miserably because the writing is unintelligible.

With that said, I am constantly surprised at how well non-native english speakers do with their posts on this board.

 

[USEDCAR]

USEDCAR

Get a browser like Firefox (free from http://www.firefox.com) which has a built-in spell checker, and a learning dictionary which you can add words to. There is really no excuse for poor spelling these days.

Grammar - different story, but as annoying. Fact is, anyone who has graduated from high school in an English-speaking country should be able to write passable English.

-d-

I already have freezefox its just the fact when someone makes a thread its annoying seeing 100 people correcting there spelling.


Yes we all went to high school we all don't learn the same way or we went to shitty high schools.

Just because you know where the comma goes at you don't have to nag us about it.

If someone spelling/grammar horrible just ignore it and move on.

 

[ComNavFdgPk]

... Fact is, anyone who has graduated from high school in an English-speaking country should be able to write passable English.-d-

Ah, if only that were true. Unfortunately, we have people graduating high school in the United States without a fuckin' clue as to how to write a proper sentence. Bush and his "No Child Left Behind" bullshit has made it more important for teachers to train students for standardized tests (particularly in mathematics) than to actually see to it they learn how to write intelligently.

 

[G-Lexington]

I rarely see what one might call "nazi-ism" here when it comes to posts. If a word or two gets spelled wrong, or you use "lie" instead of "lay", or say "pentultimate" instead of "ultimate", most of the time, people will let it slide. Someone might mention it if your mistake is an especially humorous one, but generally, nobody says anything.

The most common place I see complaints about spelling/grammar/all that is in Coming Out & Relationships. And there's a reason for that. It's surprising how many posts are one-thousand-word run-on sentences, full of side comments and spelling errors.

ok so imagine ur in ur room and u go online and maybe ur thinking ok maybe i should go on jub and after looking at ur fav parts the hot celeb fakes some of em r so dumb but others are rly hot lol anyway so ur at jub and ur thinking maybe ill look at some other part and so ur looking around and after u look at fetish or something i never actually look at fetish but im just saying that as an example i dont really have a fetish well maybe i do but i havnt rly thought about it much cause i just came out last month so anyway u look at fetish or something again just 4 example and then u got and look at com out and relashunships and start reading and you realize omg other people feel the same way but then u read a post that goes on & on and ur not sure wots going on lol and you dont know what to say.

These posts hardly get any response, mainly because nobody can get to the end without screaming. Many of us in CO&R want to help - really. But if even reading the problem is a major chore, many of us simply aren't going to put in the effort.

Lex

 

[KaraBulut]

Me to Alin, it's not their fault they can't spell properly.

P-R-O-P-E-R-L-Y

Properly.

 

[KaraBulut]

I rarely see what one might call "nazi-ism" here when it comes to posts. If a word or two gets spelled wrong, or you use "lie" instead of "lay", or say "pentultimate" instead of "ultimate", most of the time, people will let it slide. Someone might mention it if your mistake is an especially humorous one, but generally, nobody says anything.

The most common place I see complaints about spelling/grammar/all that is in Coming Out & Relationships. And there's a reason for that. It's surprising how many posts are one-thousand-word run-on sentences, full of side comments and spelling errors.

As the G&S Nazi, I wasn't going to comment specifically but what the hell...

There are many minor errors in CO&R. Most of time I notice them and I've never commented on them because many of the CO&R posts are written at times when emotions are at play, people are drunk or in the middle of the night when parents aren't around. So allowances are made. The runon sentences and the "texting" speech patterns (e.g. "ur hot", "NEway") are very hard to interpret though. But I agree with you Lex that everyone does their best to focus on the content in their responses.

This thread was probably prompted by a CO&R post that was a bit challenging. Someone (not me!) posted a single sentence reply with a remark about the poster's "spelling and grammer". Comments like this are a rarity but if you're going to make them, please spell "grammar" correctly at the very least!

 

[blackbeltninja]

I already have freezefox its just the fact when someone makes a thread its annoying seeing 100 people correcting there spelling.


Yes we all went to high school we all don't learn the same way or we went to shitty high schools.

Just because you know where the comma goes at you don't have to nag us about it.

If someone spelling/grammar horrible just ignore it and move on.

dificult 2 wen u arnt shure egzactly wat the persons saying i mean...... just look atthe misstake's in the post's and tel me howe much you enjoyed to have readthat. and if it's sorta a longish one then. how? are you suposed to know where one idea stop's before then when a new idea come's into the discushion it's not alway's the easeist of thing's to attempt to have to sift you're way threough anyway's in my opinion.

If everyone out there took two seconds to scan their post to see that it makes sense before hitting the reply button, they would see that it looks odd and might make the necessary adjustments. If they are using a browser less than 4 years old they just need to look for a red line. The only excuse is laziness, and that's not a good excuse at all.

Can you imagine if your exam papers or school textbooks were written like my opening paragraph? You wouldn't know what the fuck to answer, and it would take you days to figure out what they were on about. You ever wonder why magazines like Time, and Science and Nature are all written legibly and not in netspeak or leetspeak or any other stupid bullshit?

Even your average DC comic or Mad magazine is written in proper English, and that alone should tell you something. And it's a sad indictment on all of us native English speakers when all the "filthy foreigners" in here speak and write it better than we do.


-d-

 

[Alpha1851]

Can you imagine if your exam papers or school textbooks were written like my opening paragraph? You wouldn't know what the fuck to answer, and it would take you days to figure out what they were on about. You ever wonder why magazines like Time, and Science and Nature are all written legibly and not in netspeak or leetspeak or any other stupid bullshit

-d-

True. But, we aren't at work. Before I begin drafting a memo, a brief, an order, a speech, etc., I make sure to have my Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus on hand. I carefully proof read my work when I'm finished and I even have the secretary give it a once over just to be sure that it's perfect. However, there are times when I'm not so careful, JUB just happens to be one of those times. I post when I'm stressed and I need to see that there is a world out there beyond my own. If I'm writing about a business merger, I tend to use words such as "law bidding" (bid for the contract) when I meant to use "law-abiding."

I post when I'm sleep/tired and I need to keep myself going. The words on the computer screen are blurry and it's hard to tell if I'm typing correctly or not. Also, what makes perfect sense at a sleep deprived 3:00 am in the morning, doesn't cut it once I've re-read the material after a couple hours of sleep. I also come on board when I'm working on something depressing such as child abuse or murder and I just want to take my mind off of it. As such, my mind is really eslewhere and I forget to double check every period, every question mark, every colon.

Sometimes, I mess up and misspell a word. Sometimes, I forget to add a semi-colon or a hyphen. Sometimes, my legal spell check isn't compatable w/ whatever JUB is using and the legal program changes the words around (especially w/ homophones like arson/arsine or to/too/two.) There are probably a ton of mistakes in this very post. Is that such a a big deal? Does it warrant sending me PMs or making comments to correct my spelling/grammar? Because it certainly happens.

Yes, when you are working on a project for your job or for school it's very important, even critical, to use correct spelling and grammar. However, I just don't think the world will crash if we make mistakes on JUB. I concur w/ the OP.

 

[RationalLunacy]

I already have freezefox its just the fact when someone makes a thread its annoying seeing 100 people correcting there spelling.

What the hell is "freezefox"?

 

[KaraBulut]

What the hell is "freezefox"?

First you fill up a condom with water, then you put it in the freezer....