She asked for advice concerning her life situation, not to be graded or judged on her spelling and/or grammar.

People are more likely to avoid posting for fear of being called out on the spelling/grammar then they are for being called out on off-topic, and needless, critique.

You bumped a 6 week old post and began by criticizing someone's spelling (who btw is not from the US). If someone has issues with poor spellers and they open a thread with obvious spelling errors and feels offended by the lack of clear spelling then I have not one drop of sympathy for them. If they act like an asshole about it, I have no mercy either.

[QUOTE=Mark Vieth]Now what is the point of having a public forum only to get shot down. Now I certainly don't need to have people tell me what I did or didn't say wasn't up to standard. I even recieved a pm in regards to this as well. Now the thread was started by native baby, it she has a problem with what I said she is more than welcome to pm me or say so here in the thread. [QUOTE]





Mark you are wrong this is not a public forum member ship is required to post here making it a private forum. In fact it is a private moderated forum and if one of the moderators decided a post you have made is wrong and calls you on it. They are just doing their job. If you don't like this you are more then free not to post here any more.


P.S. Oh yea it's received not recieved don't you know it I before E except after C.

Did you mean “...great speller OR uses proper grammar...”? :confused:


















Now should we divide this thread into ‘The Conventions of Proper Written Communications' and the topic of the ladies question, or don’t you have anything to contribute to something real? :shrug:

native.baby,

I hope your situation is improving. :)

Shakespeare spelt thing how he felt at the time and how it fitted into his rhymes.

Spelling wasn't set in concrete until Gutenberg got mass printing going.

If I can understand what someone's making an effort to say to me, I am happy.

If I am marking a spelling test, different story.

If the Brits and the Yanks can't agree on spelling, why should we claim to be better?

Give it a break and get back to what we do best.

I deal with typos in my job and I'm now laughing at OPOLOGISE. That's a new one.

You suggest she use spell check. I would think opologise would show up in yours.

Pot

Kettle

Black

Oblivious

Opologise

This is a really good forum, native.baby. Have you checked it out?

I know I misspelled a word in my post. Two I think. I use Firefox and it has an automatic spell checker. I also stated that I am not the worlds best speller and can understand that most people aren't.

What I don't like (and am I wrong in assuming it's OK to say here what one does and does not like) is when a person almost seems to go out of their way to misspell words. I also belong to at least one message board where there are regular posters who don't even speak English as a first language.

I am not a spelling or grammar Nazi because I realize mine (as I stated before) is no where near perfect.

I guess PF you never ever make an error since you unlike me did not point out a fallible nature. The original poster made little to no effort to use anything approaching proper grammar or spelling. I ignored her post originally. In the first post I made here I was not attacking her (like you just did to me), I only stated an opinion. But I have discovered over the past year or two I've been here if you're among the "cool kids" you can get away with a hell of a lot more than if you're not.

When you are priviledged enough to have the benefit of just about anything in life (money, 'breeding', education etc) that comes with the responsibility of realising that not everyone around you is fortunate enough to have the same.

If your spelling is better than some/most, just be grateful for your education and remember that there is always someone out there who'll be reading your post and noticing poor spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary and syntax that you think is fine.

I'd rather be friends with a kind, polite, thoughful poor speller than someone who hasn't even been taught the good grace not to criticise someone for a failing that is not of their own making.

Does anyone ever bother to actually read what I write or do they just skim it then misinterpret it as criticism?

If you notice I have never once on this site made a specific post about someones spelling ability or lack there of. What I did do in this thread is state an opinion of how I think someone should post if they want more people to reply. I can't be the only person who looks at a jumble of poorly spelled words with only the barest attempt at grammar and just skips it without even bothering trying to decipher what it says. If you don't care enough to make an attempt I don't care enough to make an attempt. I'm not even going to bother, like Mark did, telling you why more people are not responding to your problem.

But once again I forgot that stating an opinion that is unpopular here is forbidden, and makes one a horrible person.

I'm not sure if your comment was directed at me specifically Jude, but if it was, can I just make it clear that my comment was a general one and not any kind of reply to your particular remarks.

I was simply trying to communicate what the majority of people here have already said but in a slightly different way that might make it easier to relate to.

If I act like an ahole and get called an ahole, I shouldn't be suprised or insulted and have no right to complain. Why is it that I understand that, and nobody else does?

Jude30,

Such is the lot of those who are not politically correct. :nod:

Because the true ahole doesn't understand that he's an ahole?

And you understand this because you're not really an ahole, you just play one at pixies...