duz reely pore spelign mak yoy luk stoopid?

Peter Rideout wrote: Yes, the "edit" button is there, Spell Check is easy to use, etc. (I am thinking of those whose first language is English, of course.) To me, not even bothering to try to get it right (or at least edit a bit) is being disrespectful to yourself, and to your readers & fellow music fans. Do you care about how you are perceived? (If you don't think how you write affects the reader's perception of you, you are wrong.) We communicate with text here, and there are rules and conventions to facilitate better communication via text. (Really, why write lots, if you write very poorly?)

OK Professor, admit it - exactly how many times did you check your spelling before hitting the "Post New Poll" button, eh?

I'm a fairly accurate typist (the proud holder of a Pitmans intermediate certificate, I'll have you know), so my occasionally poor spelling cannot be blamed on the same disability my dear Canadian sausage-fingered buddy suffers from, but I do my best to check spelling, grammar and punctuation before hitting that "Post Reply" button. If I see a glaring error, I edit; if I dont spot an error, you can guarantee some smart-arse on the forum will make me aware of said error.

Call me an old fashioned grumpy-pants if you will, but I believe spelling, punctuation and grammar are important (even if I do frequently fall down on all three ) - even when I use my mobile phone to text, the same rules apply; I refuse to use text-ese ("CU L8er M8" etc).

There are way too many death metal singers out there slaughtering the English language (along with any available virgins, no doubt... or would that be suicide ?) without our allowing the written word to go the same way.

C'mon Rideout ... Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me

(oddly enough am listening to Slade right now)

I notice that this poll doesnt have a "No" answer.

I'm the first to admit that my spelling is below par, and despite the fact that English is the only language that I can speak/ read/ write, I still make mistakes. At least I can say I try to get everything right when posting in the forums (though not so much in the VR).

After all this time on the Internet, I learned to ignore - sometimes very nice people type like that.

The Miracle wrote: After all this time on the Internet, I learned to ignore - sometimes very nice people type like that.

I would vote 'No' but it seems that this poll was only created to poke fun at people who screw up their spelling and, therefore, no such answer exists. 

Pneubauer wrote: I would vote 'No' but it seems that this poll was only created to poke fun at people who screw up their spelling and, therefore, no such answer exists.

Edited by Peter Rideout - September 07 2006 at 19:08

Peter Rideout wrote: Like it or not, consistently poor spelling (not a mere typo here and there) creates a negative impression in most readers. (Though I think that concern for spelling is diminishing among the young, thanks to the hurried mode of communication on the web, and the seeming decline in reading as a past-time, in favour of computers and TV.) Imagine a piece of advertising, a resume, or a newspaper that was full of basic spelling errors -- it would hardly lend an air of trustworthyness, attention to detail or credibility to the source!

That I totally agree with - at least because I watch my 10 year old sister spend hours in front of TV watching dumb teen comedies that look like they were designed for retards - no thought required and no knowledge or moral to it. Video and PC games are another big concern: I never cared for them at all and that's one of my main difference from my peers who seem to only care for World Of Warcraft. The thing is, bad spelling is usually caused by the hurry people type on IM because otherwise normal conversation speed is impossible. Forums are another story, but many people keep their 'style', even perfect spellers in real life. It also depends on how seriously one takes his presence in a web community - check my really old posts in the MC, you'll see some major capitalization problems So of course it's usually the "n00bs" with the most spelling mistakes.

Reading is way old fashioned now, and it saddens

Peter Rideout wrote: It's sort of like habitual swearing, manners and dress, I think -- it makes an impression, like it or not.

Sort of... though swearing is culture-wide, age-independent phenomenon, at least here in the US. The f and s words pretty much lost their offensive value thanks to very common use

The Miracle wrote: Reading is way old fashioned now, and it saddens

That's another gripe of mine; the use of cool words like "way".

There is no need for "way" in that sentence.

However, it could be worse:

Man, reading is like totally way old fashioned!


Edited by Geck0 - September 07 2006 at 19:55

R U SAYNG TAHT PEOPLE TAHT TYPE LIEK THES R STUPID?!??!! OMG WTF LOL I DONT AGRE WIT TAHT AT AL!1111 OMG