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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.

OP posts:
Bakeoffcake · 29/05/2015 18:28

Don't be embarrassed ghost. She needed tellingGrin

holmessweetholmes · 29/05/2015 18:25

Good point, usualsuspect333. Those of you who think it is perfectly ok and not rude to point out people's grammatical errors on MN, do you also do so in rl conversations? If not, why not?

ghostspirit · 29/05/2015 18:14

lol bakeoffcake i just checked the thread. yes the comment was deleted. and then my responce is still there. look like a nut nut ranting hahaha Blush

Bakeoffcake · 29/05/2015 18:08

I know what you mean Seneca, I always imagine they are Hyacinth Bucket types.

My kids are both at uni Wandering. Russell group ones LOL!xxxx

Tequilashotfor1 · 29/05/2015 18:00

I was crap at spelling but brilliant at reading at school. Can't sit still to do an office job, but know I'm the absolute dogs bollocks at my job - a sports coach. I also teach new teachers. I win awards for it.

Who cares if your spelling and grammar are off? Life's to friggin short Wine

WanderingAboutRandomly · 29/05/2015 17:44

I don't understand why people need to defend their poor English. English is my first language and I'm not dyslexic. I am simply bad at English. It's not that I don't care or that I'm lazy it's just something I find difficult. I also can't draw or sing.

I'd love to know how talented some of the grammar pedants are in other areas of their lives. Some of them seem to be struggle with manners.

SenecaFalls · 29/05/2015 17:39

There's quite a bit of woeful ignorance among the SPAG police about how the "would of" mistake comes about in speech. I often envision these folks walking around carefully and separately enunciating each word they say in what they perceive to be an accent devoid of regional identity.

crispandfruity · 29/05/2015 17:34

You messin' wit me?

howabout · 29/05/2015 17:33

Should SPAG not be SpaG? Just saying lol ;)

crispandfruity · 29/05/2015 17:32

If any pedant po po's try and pull me up on my SPAG I will pop a cap in their ass. Big style. It's an internet forum not the entrance exam for a super selective.

WanderingAboutRandomly · 29/05/2015 17:32

BakeOffCake If you really want to piss the pedants off then using words like LOL, uni, and kids is quite effective. Wink.

Mrsjayy · 29/05/2015 17:21

You would get them carted off for being a demented loon thats what would happen or you would back away slowly Grin

LoisWilkersonsLastNerve · 29/05/2015 17:21

I remember that thread. Poor op. Sad

JeanneDeMontbaston · 29/05/2015 17:20
Grin

Without the 'fucking', usual, I have an excellent sense of what would happen, because my mother spent most of my childhood doing that. She also corrects people on 'who' and 'whom'.

usualsuspect333 · 29/05/2015 17:17

Can you imagine what would happen in RL if you shouted 'IT'S FUCKING HAVE' at someone.

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cuntycowfacemonkey · 29/05/2015 17:15

Bakeoffcake I wonder if it was the post that prompted me to write this thread? Hope so it was just a nasty, uncalled for swipe at an OP who was looking for advice.

I think I am going to take the line of repeatedly reporting it, if for no other reason than to irritate the powers that be whose response is disappointing and inconsistent with what they have previously said.

OP posts:
Mrsjayy · 29/05/2015 17:08

Shouting HAVE its fucking HAVE is P A

Bakeoffcake · 29/05/2015 17:07

They must have thought the one last night was a personal attack.
I will keep reporting.

Mrsjayy · 29/05/2015 17:07

I think posters have it spot on mumsnet talk is just a chat forum thats all i dont agree with its fine to correct unless folk have indicated they want it corrected.

usualsuspect333 · 29/05/2015 17:06

I'm surprised by MNHQs response on this thread.

The last time I reported a thread full of hysterical 'It's HAVE HAVE HAVE' posters I got a very different reply which said ' it's not ok to correct posters spelling and grammar but they won't delete them as they are not a PA.

WorraLiberty · 29/05/2015 16:45

Bakeoff that's why I was surprised at Rebecca's reply because HQ have told us to report in the past, when we see people being pulled up on spelling and grammar.

I do often report when I see it.

Bakeoffcake · 29/05/2015 16:38

CuntyCowFace

On the back of this thread, I reported a nasty post last night, I won't repeat the post here but it was basically along the lines of "the OP's spelling and grammar is shit". I told MNHQ I thought it was nasty and not helpful to the OP. MNHQ have deleted itGrin

So thanks for stating this thread, as I would never have thought to report before. I suggest others start reporting attacks on people's SPAG too!

ConfusedInBath · 29/05/2015 16:32

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JeanneDeMontbaston · 29/05/2015 16:31

It is different from that, yes, but not so different in the context of this thread, I think.

ConfusedInBath · 29/05/2015 16:29

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