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What’s everyone’s opinion

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Mamaof3x · 27/05/2025 19:17

New to this so just wondering how it all works. My first post last night was ok but some people are very nasty about punctuation and grammar. Are people that stuck up about it. Maybe some peope didn’t have good parents or some sat at their desk in class staring into space with not a clue what to do. When everyone was busy writing.

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Mamaof3x · 27/05/2025 20:23

Tulipsontoast · 27/05/2025 20:02

Well this is going to go fabulously. Were you as lovely in your post last night?

Welcome to mumsnet. As with anything in life, some people are nicer than others.

Most people don’t care whether you can spell or not but people do care whether you are rude or not.

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Am not being rude am just asking as it doesn’t matter to me of some can spell or not it matter how they are feeling and how bad there situations are

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AliTheMinx · 27/05/2025 20:23

Spelling and grammar are very important to me, but I would never openly criticise anyone for poor spelling and grammar exactly for the reasons you have outlined. That would be unnecessarily rude.

SwanOfThoseThings · 27/05/2025 20:06

It's bad form to criticise spelling and grammar on Mumsnet, with the following exceptions:

  • In Pedants' Corner
  • If 'Muphry's Law' applies
Tulipsontoast · 27/05/2025 20:02

Mamaof3x · 27/05/2025 19:58

Well me for one i don’t understand how to put it into your understanding stuck up means people think they are better because they can spell better than me

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Well this is going to go fabulously. Were you as lovely in your post last night?

Welcome to mumsnet. As with anything in life, some people are nicer than others.

Most people don’t care whether you can spell or not but people do care whether you are rude or not.

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Mamaof3x · 27/05/2025 19:58

OtterlyMad · 27/05/2025 19:51

What counts as being “stuck up”? There are some posts on Mumsnet that are so littered with spelling errors that they are barely legible, or completely devoid of punctuation/paragraphs. Personally I just skip past posts like that because I can’t be arsed trying to figure out what the person is asking - does that make me stuck up? I agree some of those posters deserve our sympathy but I’m sure other people are just lazy.

Well me for one i don’t understand how to put it into your understanding stuck up means people think they are better because they can spell better than me

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OtterlyMad · 27/05/2025 19:51

What counts as being “stuck up”? There are some posts on Mumsnet that are so littered with spelling errors that they are barely legible, or completely devoid of punctuation/paragraphs. Personally I just skip past posts like that because I can’t be arsed trying to figure out what the person is asking - does that make me stuck up? I agree some of those posters deserve our sympathy but I’m sure other people are just lazy.