I type like a spastic, and often make spelling mistakes. Thankfully the new preview option allows me to notice most of them.

Anyway, after trawling around forums for the last few weeks (end of project slackness) I have noticed that quite a lot of people dont know how to spell.

What they do is type an approximation of the word, then put (spelling?) after it.

This irks me more than someone who just doesnt know how to spell. These people have enough intelligence to consider for second that they don't know the spelling. Then they take the time to point out that they are unsure of the spelling.

Why don't they use the power of TEH INTERWEB to check the spelling? It wouldn't take much longer and then they would have increased their vocabulary. Hell, Google even has a spellchecker built in.

Ok, I'm calmer now. I'm off to play pool.

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I agree, Rick. It is just a general lack of effort, I think. It's acceptable for non-native English-speakers to do that, I reckon - but otherwise it's plain lazy.

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I agree to an extent. I usually use the (sp?) on proper names or places and, more than likely, use it when I am in a hurry. So yah, I admit it is a bit lazy. What does annoy me is abbreviating words that are already only like 3-5 letters long. Just spend the extra couple seconds to hit the damn keys!

There are quiet a lot of foreign people on the forums too Rick [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

What annoys me most is "u". When I read "u" instead of "you" somewhere I file that as childish.

As for spelling correction, especially with latin words some people are so far off that any attempt at autocorrecting their spelling would result in a completely different word...

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There are quiet a lot of foreign people on the forums too Rick [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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this is true too.


wht do u hav 2 say about that Rick!?1111!
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On my recent forum excursions I would say that foreign people speak better english than many native english speakers.

I have been speaking online to a Chinese girl for the past few weeks. She speaks much better english than i do! But its cool, She's awesometastic in almost every way.

I think most of my screwing up is due to accident, "teh" but i will freely admit i am no where near great at spelling or grammar.

My english and spellin ain't two good some times.
I should maybe do more readin of them books.

Rule of thumb: Someone who tends to mix up phonetically similar or identical words (their/they're, for example) is most likely a native speaker.

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This is true, and also, most sad.
I've read some livejournals of native brits (and americans, to a lesser extent), and the mistakes they make (which, by the way, are not just a typo, because they do it ALL the time) make me cringe... and i'm not just talking about one or two persons, i'm talking about loads and loads of brits and americans that JUST CAN'T BLOODY SPELL.

They manage to misspell words like "library" and "honestly", but they also switch around than and then, which is perfectly acceptable for non-native speakers, but you'd think they'd have learned these things in - you know - school?

You are a sad frustrated little man now and then aren't you Rick ? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

All the problems of the world and periodically you start ranting again because the thoughtless spelling of the majority is not as refined as it could be heh

I mean seriously, what will incur your ire next eh? ' If only more people would tuck their shirts into their pants, we'd all get colds less!' ?

Things irk me [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I'm just cranky cos we've had nowt to do for 3 weeks.

It wasnt the spelling that irked me, it was the fact that people knew they were spelling wrongly and pointed out that they were spelling wrongly. They were bothered enough to point out that they might be wrong without trying to fix it.

Spelling? Yes it is irritating. But hell to know you spelled it wrong and take the time to spell it out that it may be wrong, shakes head. I am guilty as charged in many instances of shortening a word, like attn. or other abbreviations/deviations. I also am completely stupid in some instances and plead ignorance to possessive nouns and shite like that.
To me MS Word has destroyed my abilities as well as regular brain damage. I was a pretty decent speller in my time, but I had to struggle in English Literature to get an A minus. What gets me is the obvious mistakes, like: teh raeson for this setnance is ot show hwo you can raed wierd words nad still correct htem.

Now did you see how you can still read that sentence? Really weird huh. The human mind can reconstruct flip-flops or dyslexic typing in seconds. I can deal more with the above sentence than that crap like: I like u 4 the 4 play -n- 4 the way u 8 last nite!
But Sal_Manilla still corrupted me on prolly, I hate writing: I remember so I use I recall.
And I promise to stop using cos instead of because.

Funny at the Silent Forums Rick, I think some of the best grammar students there are the members from Sweden or Canada. We all should try harder though, I agree with that.

I make a mistake once in awhile - particularily on #md and its usually pointed out by IIID. Anyway, the mistakes I *hate* are when people say "you're" as YOUR... and use it in sentence like, "OMG YOUR STUPID!".

Twits.

EDIT: I try and type/spell to the best of my ability when on the internet as its where I spend most of my time putting sentences together. That way, when I go to write anything on paper I'm not using "U" for "you", etc.

Frankie says; relax!

frosty: The first and last letter have to be in place for that to work and even then, if the reader encounters a word he does not read often it can take a while to figure it out.

to, too, two
their, there, they're
your, you're

I don't mind bad spelling so much as these errors. Maybe we need a sticky thread.

Agreed. I too am often a sloppy speller. But there is simply nothing more annoying in this world than a lack of understanding of the difference between 'your' and 'you're', 'there' and 'their'. Technically speaking not spelling but grammatical errors of course.

I see it constantly and it irks the heck out of me.

Actually, people that whistle through their teeth. That's probably a bit more annoying.

fingernails on a blackboard is more annoying than a few people who can't spell.

i usually make a goof, realise and go back and change it.

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And it's also possible for two words to have the same first and last letters while at the same time having the same middle letters; such as 'weird' and 'wired.'

While were at it, lets clear this up once and for all!

Poll: Plural 'polygons' = 'polys' or 'polies'?!

Now, arguably 'polies' is correct in the same way that 'doggies', 'titties' and 'lorries' is. But it just does not look right to me! I always read it as 'pole-ees' It just bugs me written that way!

ctl+T (opens new tab), type D <insertwordyoudontknowhowtospellhere>, Enter.

Firefox keyword dictionary shortcut rules.

Traditional English grammar would require the -ie substitution for the plural of a noun ending in -y, but poly as we use it is atypical. Basically, it's not really a word as far as the 'official' language goes; it's generally a prefix. You won't find the word poly itself as a noun in the dictionary, but rather just the poly- prefix listing or as an abbreviation for other words (polymer, for instance). For us, poly also began as an abbreviation (polygon, obviously), but usage has more or less redefined the word as it's own entity beyond just abbreviating. Polygon literally just means "many angles", but we've recast the new word poly to specifically mean a virtual two-dimensional, three-sided plane. While it has an obvious origin, our creating this term via common usage also allows for us to determine what is the appropriate grammar. So, polys as the plural of poly is fine, since it's the way we've opted to create it. This sort of thing has happened all the time through the history of our language - it's the reason we don't have gooses and mouses and sheeps and any other oddball exception you can think off that defies the normal convention.

Goddamn, I'm a language nerd. In summary, polys is fine because we've made it that way as that usage is more commonly accepted than polies.