to think it is bloody nasty and childish to pull someone up on grammer

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on here(mn) I mean ffs
can I just say arse holes to anyone who does that?

Yes it's a fact, BA, that some MNers are not working at the moment but it doesn't mean that those of us who aren't are unable to use correct vocabulary, punctuation and grammar.

Your post did seem to imply that we have never worked or been out in the real world when so many of us would love to be earning but are either lone parents (not by choice) or caring for disabled children.

Erm...it depends. Generally I don't go in for correcting grammar or spelling - I'd be here all day frankly, and it's rude and unnecessary - though some of it's quite painful to read sometimes. But there are rare occasions when it simply must be done. Depends very much on the context of the thread though.

i do like bumptious spelling pedant getting some comeuppance for an error though.and then snigger as they ohh and aahh to wriggle out

one rule for them(hey its a typo alright) and another for anyone else (as their spelling makes em look fick, innit)

My spelling and grammar just make me look drunk mostly

oh wait .....

MiladyDeSummer - hey, I don't mind the reason for your unemployment (although I think you do, with that chip-on-shoulder inference).

I was simply pointing out (or even, for your sake) reminding everyone that, in the world of work, one is expected to communicate clearly and cogently.

usualsuspect mine too. It's spot on though.

I don't think I have ever pulled someone up on their spelling - what's the point?

I can spell myself but my typing is abysmal, and I am so used to auto correct on outlook and word that I come unstuck on MN.

Grammar is also shite.

I normally point out my own mistakes if I make them so people don't think I am fick.

I think it's quite easy to tell a typo from a spelling mistake TBH. When someone cries 'typo' I'm quite often a bit . I let it lie though.

But I have on occasion had a mad brain lapse and typed there for their or they're for example. Doesn't mean I don't know the difference, just sometimes when typing in haste or under the influence, and not bothering to preview stuff, one gets sloppy. Now that I would have to self-correct. Couldn't live with the shame!

My favourite was the woman complaining about her 'cancel' refusing to pay her daughter's bus fares to private stage school. She cried 'typo'. That was one hell of a big finger slippage.

there have been some v funny comeuppances on this thread

laughing at cancel imagining it said in pat butcher voice. bleedin cancel do nuffink for ya

BA I agree with you, it's important, of course it is. I wouldn't dream of writing, "I am so doing" in a business letter for example

Not sure why being temporarily unemployed because I have a severely disabled child equates to having a chip in my shoulder though.

I'm lucky to have a DH earning and helping with the caring responsibilities but others are not in such a fortunate position. That's all I was saying in answer to your comment about non-working MNers.

lol that is hilaire

ah joys of mn,a working/sahm debacle anytime anywhere.no topic immune to it

sm

anyone said precious moments yet?any biddu;ph tambourines

lolol I just got the 'cancel' joke.

For some reason I remember from years ago Bianca yelling at Pauline Fahler 'oo did your hair, the cancel'

Ooh I love it when SM gets all precious moments.

its my fave phrase up there with words on a screen.but i see someone else has said that already

I'm a pedant. But the only people I'd ever pull up about grammar would be my own DC.

i have bianca in me head now going on about da cancel fault innit.they do nuffink.rickaaaaaaaaay