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I'm less of a person or not worthy of the advice I'm asking for?

I don't want to start a bun fight or anything. I just find it difficult to understand why some people take such offence to mistakes.

bought/brought - if you can't use them correctly I will ridicule you and refuse to offer any useful advice.

If you don't put in the correct amount of punctuation I will state you're not fit to look after my children

When did it become ok to bully someone for making mistakes like this? If they offend your overinflated sense literary justice can you not just leave the thread and not return? Someone who is posting for some kind of help could probably do without being told they are inferior people.

Rant over. Maybe.

I think posters forget a lot of people are posting from phones and ipods nowadays and it is easy to make mistakes and the predictive text doesn't help either.
Good spelling and punctuation is not a sign of intellegence, just pedantry.

I really don't like text spreak or long posts with no breaks.

I think on here people overlook/forgive/ignore 99% of spelling mistakes and minor grammatical errors. Every now and then someone blurts out a correction, but its not really all that common given the huge amount of posts on here.

When posters suggest to certain ops that they pay some attention to paragraphs, punctuation and textspeak, they are infact trying to get more help for the op because it is well know that many mumsnetters will not even try to decipher an exceptionally long and garbled post. Myself included.

So, do people want answers to their questions or not? I suppose the trouble is you cannot ask ops to correct or improve what they have written without seeming superior, even if that is genuinely not your feeling or intention.

So someone who 'just can't spell' deserves to be ridiculed?

I understand you may not like it. I'm just questioning why that gives you the right to bully someone?

It can be helpful to have a mistake pointed out to you yes, but surely there is a time for this?

Yes some people can try and learn words they find difficult but Why does someone have to make such an effort to deserve the help of others?

Who are you addressing your last post to Skip?

No one in particular - I am trying to post around a cat (who's spelling is atrocious, but we love him anyway) so I'm getting lots of cross posting!

That's a good point Bruffin. My laptop keybord is awful. It often misses out letters and sometimes I don't proof read. I also have no 'F' key - thanks DS!

I'm sure that renders some of my posts unreadable!

i cant be arsed to read a long unpunctuated paragraph that doesnt make sense and doesnt have any full stops or commas and just leaves you breathless at the end of trying to make head or tail or it and i leave the thread and cant be arsed to comment and thats about the end of what i think about not punctuating properly but i expect i will think of some more in a minute but i am waffling now so i think i will try and find the full stop key on my keyboard but i think they moved it overnight due to cutbacks

Who is saying that someone who just can't spell deserves to be ridiculed? .

babybarrister - please don't start that! I've been petrified everyone is going to jump on my every mistake!

I guess I'm just sad that so many people feel it is acceptable to treat others harshly because of spelling etc.

People do say it when they point it out on the threads. When people offer no advice or comfort but simply correct a spelling mistake. How else would that come across other then 'stupid you, you spelt this wrong'

Or is it meant in another way?

My posts are full of auto-corrects and 'your' when I mean 'you're' - but I try to keep these errors to a minimum and I make an effort. And I make the effort for you dear reader - yes for you.
If you can't make an effort for me then fair enough - don't complain if I ignore you.

(( I would of course reply to anyone in serious need - regardless of spelling ))

sorry Brownleatherbrogues - no one else could be bothered to read your post but you can waffle as much as you like. Hope they don't take your spacebar too - that would make it difficult to read :o

I know it does happen occasionally Skip. I think I'm just disagreeing with you about how often it happens. Its not like its a really big issue on Mumsnet - in my mind, anyway.

I think there is a huge difference between the odd typo or common misspelling in an otherwise ok post, and a stream of consciousness wall o text affair.

It is churlish to point out the former, but utterly understandable to point out that the latter is unreadable, or to simply move on and ignore it.

fanjo - yes, poor grammar can be a result of dyslexic. Another poster on here explained it to me as one of the problems with seeing patterns and systems, which are very characteristic of dyslexia.

Sorry fanjo - I missed where you asked that about dyslexia. But LRD is right.

My DD is dyslexic. Maybe that is why I'm feeling so sensitive to this topic. She has trouble reading, which impacts on her spelling and grammar/punctuation. She doesn't see and remember the 'right' way enough for it to form a habit which is how most people learn.

"As far as dyslexia goes I know nothing about it really but am interested to know if being dyslexic means you can't use correct grammar"

My DS has dyslexic type problems, but is highly intelligent. Something goes missing between his brain and the paper. He can spell word wrongly three different ways on the same page. Spell check doesn't always help because it doesn't pick up the wrong word if it is a proper word ie ds wrote Howl for Whole Spell check doesn't differenciate between their, they're and there because they are all correct words.
DS speaks very well and we have been told he is Oxbridge material because of the way he thinks and his ability to ask the right questions,but his writing ability including punctuation and grammar is a long way behind his verbal ability.

While I was writing the above thread I started to type "write" instead of "right". I have no idea why, but I often do that with similar sounding words. I usually catch myself doing it thankfully.

YANBU OP it doesn't happen all the time on MN, and there are certainly more posters who don't do this than do, but I have seen it enough on a few threads in the last few days to make it worthy of comment.

I agree with you that it is petty to comment only to mock the grammar or language used by the OP. There are very few occasions when it is impossible to understand what the OP is asking even if they are using txt speak etc. This is an informal web forum and the language used does not have to to be professional.

I haven't seen the thread you reference so I can't comment on whether or not the comments were appropriate in this context but generally I think it is bad form.

OP you are being seriously overdramatic. What you are saying just doesn't happen. And the "bullying" tag, you really need to grow up.

There is one post (which I'm sure is what prompted this 'you're all a bunch of vipers' rant) where people merely pointed out, quite rightly, that the post was impossible to understand. The OP of that one predicatably took offence, giving the excuse that they were new to MN. Unless you are new to the english language you must be vaguely aware of the point of full stops.

I have only ever seen either a) where people ask for paragraphs/punctuation in order to try and understand and therefore answer, and b) rip people to shreds for mistakes only when they have set themselves up as above others/experts/already picked on someone elses expression.

MsTeak it does happen, see this post www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food/1258983-My-toddler-loves-shop-brought-food/AllOnOnePage for example.

Completely unnecessary.

In food no less, who'd thunk the pedants would be hanging out there? Bad form.

The pedant in me really gets annoyed at the "please recommend me a" titles but I wouldn't dream of correcting them.

The exactly the type of threads I close and ignore because in my head would be exactly what Reality posted and I'd be sooo tempted to do the same.

As I said before - It's the wrong word FFS!!