Isn’t it time to stop mocking people with poor literacy?

I think the thread is ok to be honest and I do think it’s worth calling spelling errors out in some instances, for the persons sake. Yes it’s not ok to go on to someone’s thread and sneer at them but I think pointing something out politely is ok,

That thread was not about an Individual as such, more a wider conversation.

There's a world of difference between posting on someone's thread to bitch about their SPAG & the thread in question.

The thread in question is funny, if you disagree that's fine, move on past. If people are going to sell things online, they can spell check/Google. If they don't, it really doesn't matter. It's just funny to see what people 'hear' & how that's translated in their writing.

I deliberately dont read those threads that are obviously taking the pee, its just mean girls and I am not interested.
The posts that really get to me are the ones where the OP is quite clearly distraught and is pouring her heart out only to be berated for the first half dozen responses.
' Paragraphs Op, paragraphs'!
' Ffs, it's could have, not could of......drives me mad'
'Sorry Op, couldn't get past the 'mom' are you American?????'

Now those posters need to be very very ashamed.

Text speak is my personal bugbear, but I would never berate anyone for using it - I just accept I am getting old 😁

I agree it is horrible. Spelling and grammar are not as important as the message and nobody should be discouraged from posting due to fear of making a mistake.

If the grammar pedants feel smug I hope they realise other readers either don't care or judge them for being rude. I expect there are very few readers who see their comments and are in awe of their superior spelling abilities.

Ds has dyslexia we laugh about his spelling a lot.
My favorite was awwwwfisherly when he was about 10. He got an award for an amazing project he had done and his teacher came to me and said she knew it was his own work because of spelling.

It's just a funny spelling error, not laughing at disabilities

And there you go, with a certain degree of irony, I didn't proof read and made a typo of my own - it happens. Should obviously be "I normally wouldn't". Please feel free to mock me, I won't be offended.

And I'm normally wouldn't, but in the context of the thread it made me smile. Surely we're still allowed a sense of humour at times?

And yes, I double checked my spelling before posting it.

Pease pudding. Sorry, couldn't resist!

Do resist. Honestly, correcting anyone is a dreadful look.

[quote savethewales]@HJ40 Maybe people don’t need someone on the internet correcting their spelling for them?
Chester drawers can also be a dialect thing, it’s something we say in the North East of England without thinking; but we know it’s chest of drawers. Same with peace pudding, we know it’s peas pudding.
Have a day off![/quote]
Pease pudding. Sorry, couldn't resist!

Unless of course, that was deliberate on your side and now I look like an idiot for biting. Oh well.

@HJ40 Maybe people don’t need someone on the internet correcting their spelling for them?
Chester drawers can also be a dialect thing, it’s something we say in the North East of England without thinking; but we know it’s chest of drawers. Same with peace pudding, we know it’s peas pudding.
Have a day off!

Oh I've no sympathy re baby names. I avoid the topic, the names are always a bit 'out there'. Nobody goes on baby names and asks for an opinion on say 'James' or 'Sophie' after all.
And the sibling name matching I don't understand at all.

Totally agree, hate the bitchy snobbery on here about SPAG (also baby names).

I remember recently a woman was posting about being in a horribly abusive relationship and needed advice, but she had just posted one long paragraph and some arsehole commented something like ‘How is anyone meant to help you if they can’t understand what you have typed....PARAGRAPHS!!’.

How much of a cunt do you have to be to think that way instead of helping an abused woman!?

I don’t know, I’ve made similar mistakes (including Chester draws ) and I’m not “poorly educated”, just remarkably unobservant. I don’t hold by pulling people up on their spelling on actual threads though.

Anyone who corrects another person's spag on Mumsnet gets swiftly put in their place these days ... and infact that's been the case for years. Quite right too.

I can't get too worked up about the shezlon type of posts. As a pp has said, if you're not sure about a spelling it has never been quicker or easier to find the answer. The laziness is the issue.

Felicity I've read some of your thread and unfortunately it does come across as mocking spelling mistakes and looking down on people who make them.

It's the same as people who used to make Irish the butt of jokes. They were said and said so people then associated being an idiot with being Irish. This was then stopped and so did people's opinions.

Laugh at people's mistakes then it becomes the new thing to put people down. People associate negative feelings towards them. It leaves its mark in our subconscious.

You're feeding this. Be nice and stop it.

I have seen people obviously struggling in pretty dreadful situations, post badly written OPs. The sneering often is not just at the spelling its class based as well, a particularly sneery comment I have seen more than once in the time I have been on the forum is :

"We obviously don't move in the same circles OP"

Mumsnet as a Hive Mind both bleats about womens rights and womens opportunities quite heavily but rejects any attempt to engage with women who visibly from posting style were not fortunate enough to receive either a post 16 education or a live in a decent catchment area.

I have also seen women directly facing issues caused by socioeconomic deprivation pulled apart for not fitting a certain lifestyle mould or parenting approach

TLDR : Mumsnet Prejudice is Class Based not Spelling Based

As pointed out in the thread, a lot of the examples given are heard from native English speakers, who grew up surrounded by an accent and don’t therefore associate the word as they know it with the written one they’ve encountered

Agree.

I get why they find it amusing but on a public forum it's just mean.

Also will make any posters with less good literacy skills feel like crap.

Yeah I saw that thread and thought it was unnecessary and mean.

It's different when it's people telling stories about stuff their relatives come out with, when it comes from a place of affection.

I agree. There will also be minority groups whose first language is not English making such mistakes.

I have raised this more than once on that type of thread. Now I just ignore it. The need to look down on people is too great for some. They should be thankful they had the benefit of decent enough education and a reasonable IQ, although the latter is arguable

I’m OP of that thread, really wasn’t meant as mocking the person. It took me a few moments to realise what it was meant to say and it made me smile, so I shared it referencing another common misconception.

There are hundreds of words I can never pronounce properly, partly because I lisp, and partly because I’ve only ever read them and not had cause to say them out loud. If I make a daft mistake, people should laugh, it’s funny! I’d also like to point out I didn’t speculate at all about the posters education, literacy or native tongue, and I kept it anonymous despite it coming from a public marketplace.