Why do grown ups adults take the piss spelling /grammar

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Not just here but other social media places to. Why do people feel the need to correct people's spellings and grammar or even take the piss out of it. There are so many people that claim to be intelligent and cleaver. But yet they don't seem to have the brains to understand dyslexia and other learning difficulties are quite common. And on top of that spelling is not even the subject of the thread.

So why do people do it. Do they look good, does it make them feel big, do they feel smart. Are they trying to make the other person look silly .

Cleaver*, did you mean clever?

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My issue is it is invariably the same words misspelt/misused - there/their/they’re, you/ you’re and apostrophes for simple plurals. I totally get dyslexia etc, but surely not everyone who can’t get these basics down is dyslexic? And as they’re basics, wouldn’t you want to know?

and weird one op - clever and cleaver don’t sound the same ‘Cleh-ver/clee-ver. Not something autocorrect would run to either.

IMHO, being able to communicate effectively and clearly in writing is important.

Yes, it is important. That's why it's no fun for people who find spelling amd grammar difficult. It's not surprising if they become defensive about it if twats pick them up on it all the time.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, but the accuracy of our written and spoken language seems to be the one everyone's allowed to be openly judgmental about. Unfortunately the fact that communicating accurately is important does not magically make it easy for everybody. You find it irritating, but I expect it causes a lot more pain and frustration to those actually experiencing the difficulty.

You think dyslexia is made up? I'm sorry, I just don't know even know where to begin with this level of idiocy.

It would “sink in” if you deemed it important enough. There's no excuse.

You clearly haven't the faintest clue what you're talking about.

Oh wow that sounds awful. Sorry that happened to you. I di have a slight speech problem. I can't tell the difference between v,f th sounds. So I would say fan and van the same. I can't hear that I'm doing it. Others can though

@TheBarbieEffect I wonder how you would handle an employee asking you for reasonable accomodations at work for their dyslexia. I'm assuming from your attitude that you would break the law and refuse?

Oh wait, you don't seem like the sort of person who would ever be in charge of employees so I suppose it's irrelevant.

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Actually I am in management but that would never come up where I work so we are ok 👌

That's you're own problem tho

and weird one op - clever and cleaver don’t sound the same ‘Cleh-ver/clee-ver. Not something autocorrect would run to either.

You are not understanding the problem, and the pitfalls of English for a dyslexic person. 'Ea' can often make the same sound as 'e', for example in 'leather' 'measure', 'head' etc. A dyslexic person might very well have difficulty knowing when to use 'e' and when to use 'ea' in that context.

It sounds the same to (me) though. It's how I hear it. I know its wrong as others have spelt it several times on this thread. But at the time of my op I can hear it.

Makes them feel intelligent and Superior. What's hilarious is, if they were as intelligent as they think they are why don't they have the brains to work out what somebody is trying to say. It's not bloody hard. They, there, their, they're. Doesn't matter which one is used it's easy to work out.
Some of us are used to very different dialects as well.
Imagine reading someone's highly traumatic post but looking at typos and spelling.

I don't like this either on MN. It's bullying and belittling people. Sneering at them.

Grammar is fluid, not written in stone.
It's just a matter of time before "your" is normalized for "you're" and that's cool.
In the big picture it doesn't really matter.

Honestly, the pig-headed ignorance and arrogance of unqualified, misinformed people who argue with dyslexic people about the existence and causes of, or supposed solutions to, issues they've been dealing with their whole lives is unbelievable. It is you who need educating!

The jokes on you there, I'm afraid

There's a man in our team at work. We are a team of six. He always picks up misspelling and grammar on Teams. Even though it's clearly an auto spelling error or just rushing. He's a massive twat in general and often targets women rather than the men. I think he gets a little kick out of it when he sees something to highlight. We all ignore him when he does it but he continues.

Oh please, no. Of course it matters.

Bad spelling and grammar also annoy me greatly :(

And I have pulled someone up on theirs, but it was a racist arsehole on a local Facebook group, therefore I feel it was highly justified and part of my argument that he was an ignorant idiot.

I am on loads of dog groups on Facebook, and there is someone who I just can't understand. Her spelling and grammar is appalling, no punctuation. She seems lovely but her posts really pained me. I wouldn't say anything to her (many did on there and it was upsetting for her) but honestly couldn't manage to see her stuff. I ended up blocking her rather than have my head explode.

@TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon I didn't say 'it's hard for me to understand'. I said, 'it's intensely fucking irritating'.
Maybe check your own comprehension?

It’s time that teachers were forbidden from correcting children’s mistakes, so what if they get things wrong we all know what they meant.
Teachers should limit themselves to teaching, not correcting the children’s errors.
It’s a form of bullying.
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Thank you for explaining better than me