Bad spelling

[The Stranger]

On the internet lousy writing seems to be endemic, often filling sites with the kind mistakes which should be inexcusable. This constantly annoys me. Which kind of mistakes do you hate the most? Not just on the net either, any bad spelling goes.

For me it has to be confusion between their, there and they're. Honestly, it's not that hard!

ahhaha...i also make that mistake though i do know the difference...it just flows out my hand like that...i often reread the post and notice it then...though sumtimes i only read my post later and it has been open for the world...not forget to mention that i only have my editbutton back for a week

[Duke Malcolm]

3) Some people are young and spelling is just hard for them.

Age is no excuse. I have been correcting spelling and grammar since I was about ten.

[The Stranger]

maybe the children are -90 duh

i think most people and i'm one of them dont want to mind their spelling. its not school and for alot of people english is not their first language. also many people type fast and are to lazy to edit later...i only edit out bad mistakes (all mistakes only when it was a story)

[King Henry V]

You know what strikes me as strange is that you are all complaining about bad spelling and grammar and then if Abokasee mutters some garbled and incomprehensible message and everyone starts laughing their heads off like some big private joke and then look down and shake their heads sadly at those who don't get it, as they would to the village idiot. Then they would say something to the extent of "Well it's like like ironic, innit, like sort of postmodern art you know what I'm saying?"

[The_Mark]

Well, Abokasee is a chapter of his own

I'll just pop in to post the mandatory cartoon for every grammar-related thread anywhere.

Linkage.

[Arcanum]

Sometimes bad spelling does get on my nerve as well, but you have to consider a few things when ranting.

1) Some people aren't ignorant about spelling, they just type really fast and sometimes make mistakes.

2) I learned an important lesson from Gregoshi about people on these forums. They come from all around the world and all they want to do is join into our wonderful discussions. They just don't speak english, but they try hard I'm sure.

3) Some people are young and spelling is just hard for them.

Now, I will not lie, when I'm rushing or just feeling lazy I may get a homophone error, but it's not that bad is it?

That's just my opinion.

I have to agree with 1) and 2), but 3) is not really understandable for me.
I am a 15 year old german and most people on the internet are about (+ - 1 year) my age, now one wouldn't expect a german to speak and write nearly error free, as we have very few encounters with the english language through the medias here, but come on? I'm not a wonder child, and if it's possible for a young german like me, then it should surely be possible for 'children' in my age with english as their main language to spell correctly, or at the least use correct grammar and punctuation where it is necessary.

And I do not have any problem with spelling mistakes, as long as it is quickly understandable. Although I often find myself irritated and slowed down by things like "U" and "Me 2" or something, it's not the worst thing.

What REALLY annoys me, is to see official game sites with obvious spelling mistakes. I mean come on? If you're making an internationally or nationally accessable web-site then you should at the very least make a darn spellcheck in word!That's not too much, is it?

Oh and I totally understand when people use phrases like "lol" or "Rofl", I find myself using "Rofl" sometimes too, when something is really funny. I just got used to it, and I find myself not too disturbed by it.

Thanks for reading ;)
Arcanum

[Ldvs]

On the internet lousy writing seems to be endemic, often filling sites with the kind mistakes which should be inexcusable. This constantly annoys me. Which kind of mistakes do you hate the most? Not just on the net either, any bad spelling goes.

For me it has to be confusion between their, there and they're. Honestly, it's not that hard!

I had made a post about this quite a long time ago with the most common spelling and grammar mistakes one can spot on forums. Obviously it didn't please people since nobody replied to my post
Here's my list:

- It's (verb) / its (possessive determiner). I don't know why, but most of the English speakers I see can't get it right although the difference is obvious;

- the notorious they're / there / their;

- the lazy your / you're;

- and last but not least, the most common error, I think: then instead of than. This one unnerves me no end.

Whereas I criticise the natives of UK for their bad spelling, I must admit if you could read French you'd be mortified by the slaughter whenever people are writing in French online... That's not even spelling mistakes, it's completely different from the original language and can only be understood phonetically, that is, if you re-read it five times...

[nokhor]

i don't capitalize primarily because i assume that capitalization originated in the first place because people had trouble determining where one sentence ended and another began; because of the variations in human writing style. that to my mind became moot with the advent of identical writing styles. i.e. typewriters and keyboards. no matter which one of us is writing, it all looks the same. and its quite legible. so i see capitalization especially in informal settings like this, as not necessary. as long as the spacing is kept between sentences, i see no problem with it, and in fact i see the demise of the period at the end of a sentence as well, in the not too distant future. again, this only pertains to informal online communication.

i don't capitalize secondarily because i'm lazy.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I have to agree with 1) and 2), but 3) is not really understandable for me.
I am a 15 year old german and most people on the internet are about (+ - 1 year) my age, now one wouldn't expect a german to speak and write nearly error free, as we have very few encounters with the english language through the medias here, but come on? I'm not a wonder child, and if it's possible for a young german like me, then it should surely be possible for 'children' in my age with english as their main language to spell correctly, or at the least use correct grammar and punctuation where it is necessary.

And I do not have any problem with spelling mistakes, as long as it is quickly understandable. Although I often find myself irritated and slowed down by things like "U" and "Me 2" or something, it's not the worst thing.

What REALLY annoys me, is to see official game sites with obvious spelling mistakes. I mean come on? If you're making an internationally or nationally accessable web-site then you should at the very least make a darn spellcheck in word!That's not too much, is it?

Oh and I totally understand when people use phrases like "lol" or "Rofl", I find myself using "Rofl" sometimes too, when something is really funny. I just got used to it, and I find myself not too disturbed by it.

Thanks for reading ;)
Arcanum

Very good english my German friend

[AntiochusIII]

The common mistakes occasionally disturb me, but otherwise I'm tolerant.

Though there is a problem with spelling things right in people nowadays. I am a non-native who only encountered a large amount of English less than two years ago, and I'm far above many other students in writing, both in context and grammar.

However, if there's something I hate, it's the l33t language. I couldn't even comprehend why people actually use them. Sheer stupidity, I say. Like that moron in the picture.

[Arcanum]

Alexanderofmacedon: Thank you!

[Reverend Joe]

You know what strikes me as strange is that you are all complaining about bad spelling and grammar and then if Abokasee mutters some garbled and incomprehensible message and everyone starts laughing their heads off like some big private joke and then look down and shake their heads sadly at those who don't get it, as they would to the village idiot. Then they would say something to the extent of "Well it's like like ironic, innit, like sort of postmodern art you know what I'm saying?"

Well, there's a reason for that...

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=47080&page=1&pp=30

In case you haven't seen it.

[Drisos]

Don't you have anything better to do?

I always try to use correct spelling but I do use things like: m8, lol, rolf... etc

why are you disturbed by this in the first place? I understand it's annoying when you nearly can't read a post because of bad spelling, but that's mainly because the patron just never had the chance to learn proper english.

[Sardo]

If you don't like some of the er... less conventional spelling methods, you might not want to know about this.

G0d rox0rz!!! (nad j3zu5 2!)

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

Now that took the biscuit. I mean, no one will want a bible which looks like someone texts it. So stupid and ignorant.... I mean it promotes idiots for spelling. Jeezo!

[Geoffrey S]

When the Lord parted the Red Sea, Moses spake thus: "w00t! l33t skillz!" and the Egyptians thus proclaimed "HaX0r!".

Doesn't quite fit, somehow.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Some one needs to make a bible like that...

Make it, and I'll pay you...I swear...to god...

[Susanne]

I fully support the individuals that speak against what we in Sweden call "apartwriting", which basically means that two words that are supposed to be compound or hyphenated are written as two words. E.g. "snow ball" instead of "snowball".

Other than that, I don't care about what's written as long as I comprehend what the author is trying to say.

[Reverend Joe]

Other than that, I don't care about what's written as long as I comprehend what the author is trying to say.

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(No, I don't really speak that language; if you can read it, you will understand how I got it.)