Spelling and grammar police (RANT)

It is getting old already. If I commented on every spelling mistake I see here at GRM I would have people waiting out side my door with base ball bats.

People. .. . Get over it! This is not CC and quite frankly it is why I like it here. CC has a time and a place and and I frequent there quite a lot. But lately I seem to be the lightning rod for peoples comments about spelling and grammar. If you have the time to comment on my spelling you need to get out and work on your car more.

I will say it again.

I really suck at spelling. It is just not what I am good at.

Ok? We happy now? If it makes you happy I will type it out long hand 1,000 times. My teachers in grade school made me stay after school and do just this and guess what it does not fix the problem.

Dyslexia is a SOB. Try it. I think that when the big guy was assembling my genes they thought it would be funny to remove the spelling one. People have told me for years that I should be able to "see" the words in my head. Well I think they left that screen out of my brain.

While I am at it if you have an issue with my spelling let me know about it so I can go fix it. Hell my personal email is dsmith@radio.fm. Don't be afraid of using it. I much prefer you do this so i can fix it instead of having you wast other people's time reading about my poor spelling and typing skills in some ones car related thread.

Ya I am annoyed about this. I probably should not be but it just gets old after a while. People think they are helping or something. It is the "Hay look at you. You spelled it wrong." what good does this do?

I try to be nice but there really are times when I want to let loose with a streaming rant of 4 letter words and dress down these people. Maybe they think they are helping some how. I don't know. The reality of going this rout would not do anything other than get me baned and probably make enemies of some really great people.

It is like they are my mother. When I am at her place she has to tell me to wash my hands as I go the the head. She can not help her self. At almost 50 I think I got it already and yet she keeps doing it to me and my brothers. I think the grammar police are similar. They just can not help themselves and that is why I just shake my head and move on.

Sorry for the long rant.

I feel better now.

Carry on.

Regardless of your feelings or issues the fact is that the only avenue we have to our brains on the internet is the written word. Misteaks can and do change meanings.

As with anything, the more you do it the better you get at it. So at least attempting to say what you mean (and spell it correctly) will make you get better as time goes on. I for one, have no trouble with the people who are trying.

It's those that refuse to even attempt to TRY that get my goat. They might as well not even post if they aren't going to do it in a manner that people can understand the points they are trying to make.

I believe we need a sarcasm font to save a lot of people's feelings.

While I have not been jumped on for my sometimes badly worded and spelled posts.. I know I have an issue. Mine is that my brain works FAR faster than my fingers (or my mouth for that matter) so when writing a post, I often omit entire words as my poor abused fingers fail to keep up.

I would just ignore the haters.. obviously you hit a nerve on them and they are attacking you in the only way they have

See that red squiggly line under certain words as you are typing? It means you spelled it wrong. Right click on the word and you can correct the spelling. It makes things much easier to read.

We could use the sarcasm scale of 1-10. A (10) after a post means it is totally sarcastic, (0) means totally serious.

Example:

I love it when people can't be bothered to write coherent sentences. (10)

Complain about all my spelling and grammar mistakes all you berkeleying want. I don't give a E36 M3. (0)

carguy123 wrote: Misteaks can and do change meanings.

Quoted for irony.

In reply to njansenv:

Goddamnit. Now I'm hungry.

To me it seems that most people write and send. I reread all my posts, but still things get through. I work with high school students. Rewrites? Are you kidding me?

EvanB wrote: See that red squiggly line under certain words as you are typing? It means you spelled it wrong. Right click on the word and you can correct the spelling. It makes things much easier to read.

going to take that for sarcasim.. but I do not see any red squigglies here in GRM..

I think it is only with Firefox, because it sure works for me.

njansenv wrote:

carguy123 wrote: Misteaks can and do change meanings.

Quoted for irony.

YUP, ironic that I did it on purpose just to make a soft and gentle point.

Sometimes my phone posts whole words, correctly spelled, but not in proper context. Like... "I am sorry I misspelt a word" will some sometimes be printed as "go berkeley yourself". Apologies in advance.

I have very bad spelling and no one has called me out on it yet. I sometimes go back and re read a post I made and think ya'll must think I'm an idiot. However I have not been called out on it yet.

Even if they do I don't really give a E36 M3.

I don't object, except for the one's that don't even try.

I have seen some forums where people have written entire pages without any punctuation, capitals, awful spelling and no paragraphs. It gives you a headache reading it. It is how some people type sending texts.

Then when someone takes exception they go on how it is not important.

Well I have a right to not read posts like that too.

I'm sympathetic towards folks that have have a condition that causes difficulty with spelling, such as dyslexia. Due to a diagnosed condition, my 7 year old has severe difficulty with writing, spelling, verb tenses, and pronoun usage, and we work with him intently to make even a modicum of improvement, so I really do understand.

That said, I have very little tolerance for plain old laziness, ignorance/stupidity, or apathy. The occasional misused homophone is forgivable, but done repeatedly (especially when spelled correctly) and it becomes an correctible (and perhaps punishable) offense. If you don't care enought about what you have to say to say it clearly and correctly, then I may find anything you say unworthy of serious consideration (or value).

BTW, I do not accept iPad/iPhone/iCrap autocorrect errors either... reread and edit before you post, and then again after you post if need be. I f'ing hate typing on my iPad because of autocorrect, and I often have to edit/retype many words in any given sentence. I expect no more than I am willing to do myself.

Ya'll should be glad Firefox has the spell-checker, otherwise I might as well be typing in Esperanto. I can tolerate a mistake, unless it makes a great pun.

darkbuddha wrote: The occasional misused homophone is forgivable,

Did he say homophobe?

And I'm not even going to ask how you'd mistreat him.

My problem is I don't know when it is wrong. I use the google spelling checker thing and I often re read my stuff. I have to write a lot for my job and it is stuff that can have huge legal implications if I screw it up.

What really pisses me off is that I don't know if it is wrong. It is like something is disconnected in my brain. It is a huge part why I got in to cars. What I lack in spelling I make up for in math and mechanical aptitude, physics and chemistry. It really is weird how the brain works. Ohya one other weirdness I love to read and don't have a problem with it. I also loved "Worldly Wise" when I was in grammar school. My vocabulary is very good. I some times scare my self when I pull some obscure word out and use it in every day conversation. People look at me weird. People equate dyslexia to not being able to read but this is not the case. It is only spelling and grammar.

Some really cruel joke was played when they built my mind. If I ever catch them I will beat them around the head with the i before e rule or something.

My brother's dyslexic and makes signs. It's an obviously frustrating thing. I like to think that no one here is out to be a dick, even though it does sometimes happen.

I have some pet peeves: ('Camero', 'peddle', 'dampner', 'breaks', 'nucular', etc.) but I'm learning to let it be, nobody appointed me to be Mister FKIA.

I come from a family of bad spellers so I don't notice it much, as long as the words are spaced apart

CC? Car Craft?

Minor spelling doesn't bother me. Capitalization and punctuation do, as does using txt spk and the like. Occasionally getting a word wrong is one thing, having to read through something where somebody has obviously made the conscious decision to talk like a freaking idiot drives me nuts.

I'm dysgraphic myself, which is a much lower-profile of dyslexia that happens on the output end instead of the input. I can type all day, but give me a piece of paper and a pen and I'll be crossing out every third word because they come out scrambled. You don't hear about it as much lately because kids are being born and raised on computers. I totally sympathise with dyslexics because of that situation, though.

carguy123 wrote: Regardless of your feelings or issues the fact is that the only avenue we have to our brains on the internet is the written word. Misteaks can and do change meanings. As with anything, the more you do it the better you get at it. So at least attempting to say what you mean (and spell it correctly) will make you get better as time goes on. I for one, have no trouble with the people who are trying. It's those that refuse to even attempt to TRY that get my goat. They might as well not even post if they aren't going to do it in a manner that people can understand the points they are trying to make. I believe we need a sarcasm font to save a lot of people's feelings.

Irregardless..