Bad smelling?

Principessa

Expert Member
Joined
Nov 22, 2006
Posts
18,660
Media
0
Likes
135
Points
193
Sexuality
100% Straight, 0% Gay
Gender
Female
Is this because people have bad spelling or bad grammar or is it because they have a different way of 'speaking' to what you are used to. In spoken language people have different ways of speaking which makes it hard to understand - so I suppose written communications would have the same problem. For instance some people will insist on writing in pink:biggrin1:
The only thing I'd change in your pic is to get rid of the mullet and the wife beater and try a light blue or green background. And the pink makes you seem like a wuss. :tongue:

Text speak, bad spelling, and wretched grammar are the bane of my existence on this site. I try to be tolerant of those who do not claim English as a first language.

Those born and raised in the USA or other English speaking countries have absolutely no excuse. I cut those people no slack. :cool: An excellent example of an allegedly, educated person whose posts consistently contradict his self-proclaimed high level of education is spygl4ss. Even if he weren't an ignorant bigot his posts would still be extremely difficult to read.
 

seahorses

Experimental Member
Joined
Mar 31, 2006
Posts
921
Media
0
Likes
18
Points
163
Location
UK
Sexuality
99% Straight, 1% Gay
Gender
Male

Text speak, bad spelling, and wretched grammar are the bane of my existence on this site. I try to be tolerant of those who do not claim English as a first language.

Those born and raised in the USA or other English speaking countries have absolutely no excuse. I cut those people no slack. :cool:

Ah come on, don’t you think you’re being a little harsh here? Spare some sympathy for us lesser mortals, please. As part of life’s flotsam and jetsam I’m one branded as dyslexic (sharing that distinction with Tom Cruise and Woopie Goldberg to name but a few) and can’t afford to compile anything outside of a word processor with spell check facility. Think how I’ll feel if one day I have to write something in a plain old text compiler without and knowing you’ll be reading it and wagging your finger at me; I shall only be too relieved to stand in the corner with my back to everyone. I’m beginning to feel ashamed already sob sob.
 

Principessa

Expert Member
Joined
Nov 22, 2006
Posts
18,660
Media
0
Likes
135
Points
193
Sexuality
100% Straight, 0% Gay
Gender
Female
Ah come on, don’t you think you’re being a little harsh here? Spare some sympathy for us lesser mortals, please. As part of life’s flotsam and jetsam I’m one branded as dyslexic (sharing that distinction with Tom Cruise and Woopie Goldberg to name but a few) and can’t afford to compile anything outside of a word processor with spell check facility. Think how I’ll feel if one day I have to write something in a plain old text compiler without and knowing you’ll be reading it and wagging your finger at me; I shall only be too relieved to stand in the corner with my back to everyone. I’m beginning to feel ashamed already sob sob.

I am also dyslexic but more with numbers and I can usually spot a fellow learning disabled person by their posts. Some people however are just lazy and therefore get no reprieve.
 

Catchoftheday

Superior Member
Joined
Aug 11, 2007
Posts
20,165
Media
0
Likes
3,547
Points
333
Location
England (United Kingdom)
Sexuality
Unsure
The only thing I'd change in your pic is to get rid of the mullet and the wife beater and try a light blue or green background. And the pink makes you seem like a wuss. :tongue:

So you dont think I should go for plastic surgery then :tongue:. I didn't know what a wife beater was til I looked it up :confused: maybe it is a reference to my nice jumper? Maybe one day i will get a haircut, not sure of what a wuss is but i dont think its a nice thing and clearly has nothing to do with challenging pre-conceptions:biggrin1:


Text speak, bad spelling, and wretched grammar are the bane of my existence on this site. I try to be tolerant of those who do not claim English as a first language.

Those born and raised in the USA or other English speaking countries have absolutely no excuse. I cut those people no slack. :cool: An excellent example of an allegedly, educated person whose posts consistently contradict his self-proclaimed high level of education is spygl4ss. Even if he weren't an ignorant bigot his posts would still be extremely difficult to read. Are you sure that the USA is an English speaking country? What do you think about people using slang terms that other people have to look up on t'internet ? :tongue:

XX
 

DC_DEEP

Sexy Member
Joined
Apr 13, 2005
Posts
8,714
Media
0
Likes
93
Points
183
Sexuality
No Response
"Text-speak" and "L33t-speak" are just annoying as hell; extended posts or a general writing style where the poster is trying to be "cute" and type in trendy dialect (ebonics or valley girl or surfer boy, to name a few) is just annoying as hell.

A few typos or grammatical or stylistic errors are fine, and understandable. But posts that are barely decipherable are just annoying as hell (and actually a violation of the ToS.)

It's usually pretty easy to tell who is doing their best in a non-native language, who is trying to be cute, and who is just simply lazy.
 

Catchoftheday

Superior Member
Joined
Aug 11, 2007
Posts
20,165
Media
0
Likes
3,547
Points
333
Location
England (United Kingdom)
Sexuality
Unsure
"
It's usually pretty easy to tell who is doing their best in a non-native language, who is trying to be cute, and who is just simply lazy.

Have to plead guilty to falling into the last category I used to have excellent spelling skills, I blame automatic spell checkers ( thats my excuse). That coupled with awful typing skills :redface:
 

seahorses

Experimental Member
Joined
Mar 31, 2006
Posts
921
Media
0
Likes
18
Points
163
Location
UK
Sexuality
99% Straight, 1% Gay
Gender
Male
I am also dyslexic but more with numbers and I can usually spot a fellow learning disabled person by their posts. Some people however are just lazy and therefore get no reprieve.

So have I been spotted; am I off the hook? :cool:

Surprisingly, I’m exceptionally good when it comes to numbers, I seem able to remember long sequences and can quote them off the top of my head, like bank account, credit card and National Insurance number, even old phone numbers from when I was a kid. The problem is I rarely get chance to shine with this ability, where as I’m constantly being picked up for my spelling; is there no justice! :biggrin1:
 

seahorses

Experimental Member
Joined
Mar 31, 2006
Posts
921
Media
0
Likes
18
Points
163
Location
UK
Sexuality
99% Straight, 1% Gay
Gender
Male
While on the subject of spelling, grammar, text etc., when text facility first became available on mobile phones I heard a television celebrity say he had just texted a friend? I mean, just typing it here has thrown it up a spelling mistake, but now everybody is saying texted. Again, it’s laziness; to save saying ‘I’ve just set a text to a friend,’ or whatever. But even so, I would have thought the word text would still sufficed? What’s the general view on this?

As an aside: I sat with a group of friends recently in a pub (no surprises there!) and it was announced via a TV news broadcast that, ‘Jeramy Beadle (a British celebrity) has died of pneumonia.’ One of the guys remarked, ‘That’s a strange word, ain’t it, that pneumonia; the way it’s spelt. What’s it begin with?’ I told him, ‘A cold, normally.’ Haha haha haha.:biggrin1: :biggrin1: :biggrin1:
 

seahorses

Experimental Member
Joined
Mar 31, 2006
Posts
921
Media
0
Likes
18
Points
163
Location
UK
Sexuality
99% Straight, 1% Gay
Gender
Male
I am also dyslexic but more with numbers and I can usually spot a fellow learning disabled person by their posts. Some people however are just lazy and therefore get no reprieve.

There’s another aspect regarding your comments that’s only just occurred to me (as often happens being I suffer from old timers disease) and which may or may not be of interest, but I’m going to tell it anyway, so there! :biggrin1:

School had almost been waste of time for me. Dyslexia hadn’t been discovered in my day; you were just thick and stupid! Anyhow, several years back, in an endeavour to improve my academic standing where the national school system had failed me, I enrolled in adult literacy classes. I’m happy to say I was expelled from the maths classes for knowing too much! Though believe me, there were several students there who despite using milk bottle tops as counter were still unable recite simple tables. Even with the milk bottles and having just worked out that 3, 3s are 9; if the tutor then covered the tops and asked, ‘Ok, what were 3, 3s?’ the student often, couldn’t remember. It’s at times like that you realise just how fortunate you are. Me, on the other hand could work out volumes, angles and fractions reasonably ok. I didn’t get away quite so easy with the English classes, or rather, ‘Communications skills,’ as it was called. Despite me constantly telling the teacher, 'I have a problem,' she was adamant I would learn to spell! It took her over a year to admit defeat, but in the mean time I leaned all other aspects of communicating and ended up with a Royal Society of Arts diploma, which is on a par with regular collage certificates.

Yeah, ok, I know; so why don’t I use my communication skills now? He he:tongue:
 

Axcess

Experimental Member
Joined
Dec 10, 2007
Posts
1,611
Media
0
Likes
7
Points
123
Sexuality
100% Straight, 0% Gay
Gender
Male
My spelling sucks sometimes but English isn't my first language .:wink::wink::smile::smile::smile::smile: