to be completely baffled as to why people care about spelling mistakes

[fairydoll]

Title says it all.It is totally beyond me why anyone cares about other people's spelling mistakes.
Why do they care? What does it say about that person?

I am by no means a perfect speller but I do care (ex-journo; also, it was instilled into me as a kid that bad spelling makes a bad impression).

As a result, when I see a word misspelt it does make my teeth itch. It's like a hearing a bum note in music. It's like finding someone's put sugar in your tea by accident. It just jars somehow.

OP, hope that helps remove your sense of bafflement .

That's interesting LRD - I've heard people on here say that dyslexia makes txtspk really difficult for them.

Does that mean you're great at anagrams too? You see a bunch of letters and have to arrange them correctly?

It is odd how things affect people differently.

I have dyslexia and find misspellings easy to process. (but I'm crap at anagrams)

I have assumed this was because when I mis-read a word I can spot it myself by the context - so I would know were is meant to be wear, because were doesn't make any sense in that sentence.

Though it is much harder to do when writing myself because I am not just looking at what I've written, I'm also thinking about what to write next and my brain skips all the other place, which is where I get very muddled I think, same as reading aloud.

I also have hearing problems and quite often can't hear every word people are saying to me, and I do a similar thing "what's right, what fits in the context of this conversation, okay, so it must be that." But that is more difficult because I get much fewer clues.

Yeah, I agree with LaW. I'm crap at anagrams and scrabble ... but that's because there is no context.

This is why I get cross when people say children should never, ever use context to work out what a word is - I mean, pure random guessing is bad but sensible guesswork is a lifesaver.

Text speak makes my brain hurt, btw - that's not mis-spelling (which usually has some kind of logic), it's just a made-up language. Really annoying.

It's also harder to process something like l8er because it makes your eyes jump from the minim line for an unexpected shape (in normal English the only shapes that protrude about that line are vertical lines, not curves). But I assume that's the same difficulty for everyone.