In my many hours of using the Internet, I've posted my fair share of forums. But they never went through publishing without being trashed. Allot. For example, a few months back, I made a forum post that was quickly thrown together without consideration of spelling or grammar. But when I checked back, I found a slew of mean comments, the most hurtful of which was 3 paragraphs long, and said "I would rather slit my wrists and put them in hot water than mangle the English language, which you have clearly done" and things of that manner. My point is that there are plenty of mean people who trash the work of 13 years olds. But I ask this: Why would you go to the trouble of trashing someone's work, when you don't even know the author?!?!?!?!? I hope you understand what I'm trying to get through.
You need more than a spellcheck, you should be replaed by your in that sentence. If you're just posting a thread try to keep it understandable with a minute amount of abbreviations. ty.
[rant] Is it really too much to ask that words are at least spelled correctly? I mean seriously, all you have to do is use Firefox and it has automatic spell check. My whole philosophy on it is if your posts are full of spelling and grammatical errors then you are either extremely lazy, or ignorant.
If you are lazy, then why even put forth the effort to make a post in the first place if you can't even make it worthwhile for others to read? And if you're ignorant then you shouldn't be posting until you are a bit more educated anyway.
Now all that aside there is the occasional typo, we all do it from time to time, but gross and excessive mangling of language is just unacceptable. There is no excuse for it. It's the internet. If you don't know what a word means, or how to spell it, then look it up.
This pretty much sums up this thread, also grammatical and spelling errors should be tolerated if you at least know what the person is trying to tell you.
It was fine the first time. The point that I was going to make is that the gross spelling errors that occur most often are committed by people aged 13-17 with english as a first language. The reasoning for that point being that these people are currently still in school and grammatical and spelling errors can actually reduce their grades, hence emphasis should be placed on proper grammar and spelling to create force of habit. Although that's just some old guy ranting about the importance of education and good grades.
Where I live we just use "ghetto speak" and my school doesn't really get so anal about certain mistakes you make on tests as long as it was understandable and fits with the correct answer(my teachers are nice for once?). I kind of agree with you but this is the internet: A place where things get corrupted or go to die. If everyone on the planet had masters in English you will still get the same shit you are getting now.
my school doesn't really get so **** about certain mistakes you make on tests as long as it was understandable and fits with the correct answer
Then in my opinion your school is doing you a disservice. If you pursue higher education, or try to enter the work force, you will be hard pressed to get away with many spelling and/or grammatical errors. Better to get in the habit now than have to break a bad habit later when you have a job or a degree riding on the line.
If everyone on the planet had masters in English you will still get the same **** you are getting now.
I disagree. Typically people with an education are proud of it, and find education and conveying intelligence to be important. I am a member of several forums where the vast majority of the members are pursuing or have achieved collegiate degrees and you would be hard pressed to find spelling or grammatical errors.
my school doesn't really get so **** about certain mistakes you make on tests as long as it was understandable and fits with the correct answer
That's not good, they should be strict with this! You will feel it your whole life when you make a lot of spelling mistakes and so on. It's really unhandy!
Other languages like english helps you out a lot when you're studying or so. When you study something and you also have the subject english, they will sure be very strict about spelling or grammatical errors, so you'd better learn it young, (almost) no mistakes can be made!
That's not good, they should be strict with this! You will feel it your whole life when you make a lot of spelling mistakes and so on. It's really unhandy!
And this is part of why I am so ashamed of our educational system. We have french, german, japanese, dutch and many other nationalities which have better spelling, punctuation, and grammar with the english language than those here in america.
and you don't even know the commenter. it's most likely kids who have anger in them and take it out on the internet, plus they think they are tough stuff. and then get beat up at school for being arrogant and then they go home, be jerks on the internet and become arrogant again. (and then of course, get beat up at school and come home mad... it never ends!)
anyways don't write comments if they are not worth reading
