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Isn't about time MNHQ started deleting posts that attack people's spelling and grammar?

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 28/05/2015 22:06

(In advance I will say any of my posts are likely to have spelling and grammar mistakes)

It's such a shitty thing to do and often it is directed at poster who then feel they have to explain themselves and disclose they have dyslexia. I don't understand why MN tolerate people with potential disabilities being mocked in this way?

Why can it not be regarded as a personal attack and such comments deleted. Very often the arses that post comments about another posters spelling bring nothing else to the thread and usually it derails the thread and the OP's original issue gets lost in the ensuing bunfight.

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ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2015 23:11

oh FFS Cooger, what IS your problem with me? [hmm
I am in a different timezone, I didn't see MrsJayy's post until I read back through the thread. Happy?

usualsuspect333 · 29/05/2015 23:06

I skim read, so don't always notice mistakes.

CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 23:03

Did you not reply at the time, Thumb? Seems a bit crass to do a Lolface whilst lumping it in with unpunctuated posts etc.

It amuse me how humphy Pedants can get when challenged.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2015 23:00

I'm replying to MrsJayy's comment WAY up thread, actually Cooger.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:59

Tits didn't mean to say grammar nazi (hate that term) been reading too many articles Blush

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JeanneDeMontbaston · 29/05/2015 22:59

But, to be fair, it's the flipside of the same coin.

Some people who are bad at writing are also bad at reading.

CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 22:58

Putting a Grin after telling someone you can't read their posts doesn't really take the sting out of it, Thumb.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:57

A reformed Grammar Nazi speaks

paintingthegreyarea.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/literacy-privilege/

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CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 22:56

Personally, I look down on anyone who couldn't get through an Irvine Welsh or Riddley Walker Wink

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2015 22:54

Good for you, Cooger, good for you. I hope that continues for you throughout your life.

The only posts I have trouble deciphering are those without punctuation, and yes mrsjayy, that does sometimes include yours!! Grin It can take 3 goes to separate out the meaning sometimes. And sometimes that means I won't bother, just pass the comment by.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:53

Another good article

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/my-problem-with-grammar-snobs

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holmessweetholmes · 29/05/2015 22:52

I agree, Cooger. Or more likely, claiming you can't understand someone's post because of their poor spelling and grammar is just a way of justifying being rude. I have seen many many to me cringe-worthy mistakes on MN, but not once have they ever made me unable to understand the post.

A large part of my job involves correcting spelling and grammar. If I can resist the temptation to do it to adults who have not come onto a forum for a grammar lesson, surely anyone can!

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:49

Someone corrected a poster earlier for using brought instead of bought and actually justified it by saying it was difficult to decipher a post when a word was used incorrectly. Really? Decipher? Because of one word mistake?

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CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 22:48

I don't make that mistake, Thumb. Predictive text and inattention might make that mistake for me, but I'd never judge someone on a website for it. So I'm with the OP, irrelevant corrections should be seen as a PA and deleted.

usualsuspect333 · 29/05/2015 22:43

I always cock up to and too.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2015 22:41

Well yes, Cooger - I know they're different words and that - but still I find myself, over the last year, making that mistake time and time again. It's irritating the fuck out of me!

CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 22:38

They are two distinct words to me, Thumb, with completely different meanings, like many words that attract criticism on here if used incorrectly. My mind just autocorrects. I suspect most posters on here find the same, but the urge to score a cheap shot in the face of 'dumbing down' gets the better of admitting they can read posts perfectly well.

SenecaFalls · 29/05/2015 22:37

That blog is a hoot, cunty. My favorite bit: "apparently someone killed his cat while saying “irregardless” a lot." Grin

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/05/2015 22:30

To whomever was saying that they think constant reading of incorrect spellings might actually filter into their brains and thence into their fingers, I have noticed that this is happening to me! Blush

There and their is my big fail. Mostly I notice, especially in emails where I do read back what I've written; but not always (and usually on MN just exactly at the point where I've hit "post message")

I never used to make that mistake. But now I am! It's either an age-related thing, or it's the online reading thing - or possibly both.

usualsuspect333 · 29/05/2015 22:20

Actually he has never used txt speak. He's a bloody pedant now he can use spell check Grin

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:20

Well I have nothing against a bit of childishness ghostspirit Grin

I hope DS2 grows up to be confident and resilient too.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 22:16

This is a great blog which sums up why the grammar police are in fact pricks

writingishard.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/why-im-not-proud-of-you-for-correcting-other-peoples-grammar/

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JeanneDeMontbaston · 29/05/2015 22:12

Do teenagers actually use words on websites, usual?

CoogerAndDark · 29/05/2015 22:12

Why should you have to though?

They look enough of a dick doing it without you needing to give them an explanation.

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