To think it terrible that peoples grammar and spelling is critised on threads and posts.

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I have seen this so many times on threads when posters are roasted for making minor grammar and spelling mistakes. On some threads it goes on and on and on.
I for one have crap grammar and spelling so maybe i'm being sensitive. I have also noticed posters are usually toasted on this when their comments are not agreed on. Am BU?

Sorry, but I didn't think I was being rude. I was being honest. The only way I can decide if I'm going to take what you say seriously is by the way you write. In public there are loads of other things like body language, appearance, etc. to help make this judgement. I'm not expecting anyone to loose sleep if I ignore posts. You just can't expect anyone to take you seriously.

dem trolls can't spell , true dat

I don't come on MN to be taken seriously

I'll remember that if you ever give me advice then...

"I didn't think I was being rude. I was being honest" Captain maybe you need to learn to be a little less honest.

Also, you have a glaring spelling mistake in your last post which I'm too polite to point out.

I'm curious .. can you actually not follow a badly-spelt post/a post with non-standard grammar, captain? I mean, is it genuinely hard for you? Or do you just read it, understand it, and then dismiss it?

I'm wondering because it'd take me more effort to remember 'hmm, I want to address points by her, her, her and him ... oooh, but scratch number three, she used the subjunctive wrongly'.

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

(IAm - no, I mean, I clock off correcting spoken SPAG out of classes. Or try to, anyway.)

Sorry x posted, your post 22.06

I don't think theres much chance of that, you are on my ignore list.

I've ignored the spelling mistake out of politeness too.

Do I? Auto correct must of missed it. I'm a crap speller too.

A bit of both LRD. Can't follow it and then dismiss it.

Mmm. Sounds too much like hard work for me.

Captain Kirk, you mean must have missed it. Not must of. That's wrong.

Better to have bad spelling than bad manners.

Oh dear Captain, that's two posts with two very glaring mistakes.

Hoisted by one's own petard eh?

I only found out on MN the other day that a petard in that phrase refers to a little bomb, so it means blown up by your own bomb. I was visualizing some kind of giant elasticated catapult thing. Despite sort of knowing the word petard from DH's random warfare books.

See, MN teaches us every day.

It's times like these I vow to get more healthily, just so I can live to 94 and enjoy the rage on pedants' faces when the OED officially admits that 'could of' has become an acceptable variation.

Correcting another persons spelling in the context of MN can only be seen as unkind and irrelevant, I can understand this in some other contexts, of course spelling and grammar is important but dismissing a person based on this is shallow.

Well, that is typically how grammar change works, isn't it?

The why not just tell them they are a twat?? Does having incorrect spelling and grammar make them even more of a twat? LemarchandsBox