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[Noodley]

I do hate text speak, and dont use it.
Its more lazyness then bad spelling i find.

Wee Joe,

your spelling and grammar are shite. But I do not care. Just do not think they are good

 

[Chuffy]

No just a bit pissed off with people trying to be negative all the time. Especially when it's all prejudiced nonsense.

My, you really have got it up you tonight! Lucky that this wasn't posted in the wrong bit of the Forum, eh?

I can cope with (some) bad spelling, but most of the time on here it seems like laziness. As for spelling being irrelevant, as some might chose to see it, there are posts on here which read like a stream of consciousness rather than a coherent post. The gardening forum (yes, I'm 40, want to make something of it?) I belong to is even worse. Some of the posts on there make the captions on LOLCats look like Shakespeare...

 

[Noodley]

Yeah, but it's hard to moan about good stuff...

Exactly.

and it's much easier to moan about this kind of shite than actually look at serious social ills which need to be addressed and underlying causes....

 

[Joe24]

Wee Joe,

your spelling and grammar are shite. But I do not care. Just do not think they are good

No my spelling and grammer are ****ing shoot.
But text speak is just lazyness, my spelling and grammer are just me

 

[iLB]

I can cope with (some) bad spelling, but most of the time on here it seems like laziness. As for spelling being irrelevant, as some might chose to see it, .

thats choose you mean then chuffy

 

[Chuffy]

Exactly.

and it's much easier to moan about this kind of shite than actually look at serious social ills which need to be addressed and underlying causes....

Would these be social ills like 'not being arsed'?

 

[Noodley]

....Shakespeare...

Ok rubber pants, I view wee Joe and his generation as the new Shakey(speare)...

 

[Chuffy]

thats choose you mean then chuffy

Barsteward! That's a typo....

 

[Noodley]

Would these be social ills like 'not being arsed'?

no.

 

[Chuffy]

Ok rubber pants, I view wee Joe and his generation as the new Shakey(speare)...

Shakey (Speare, not Stevens) couldn't spell for toffee, but he at least had the excuse of the English language not having standardised spelling. They don't.

 

[Noodley]

Shakey (Speare, not Stevens) couldn't spell for toffee, but he at least had the excuse of the English language not having standardised spelling. They don't.

So when was it 'standardised' to exclude free expression?

And when has anyone not been able to understand someone?

Bear in mind this fact - I will be right.

 

[simonali]

I'm a good spellist, just a bad tie pissed.

 

[Chuffy]

no.

Go on.
I'm guessing that the majority of the people who post "my breaks wont work" don't come from sink estates with low educational standards and they had pretty much the same educational standards as I had access too (bog standard comp). What are these 'social ills' that prevent people from reaching something approaching a reasonable standard?

 

[Fab Foodie]

life is most definately too short...

I don't agree.
I think standards, precision and consistency in communication is important. I'm not a great speller, but I at least try to make a pretty good attempt at it especially when writing to/for others. I have to write a fair amount of technical'stuff' to people whose second language is English, so accuraccy is important. What's scary is that their command of our language is often better than many of our own.
Whilst I don't doubt that many people have dyslexic tendancies, It's also too easy for the yoof of today to be lazy and use text-speak/sloppy spelling and grammar because they're not corrected. We need more pedantry not less

 

[simonali]

Definately is an exceedingly common one that grates with me, as does would of, could of etc.