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?

Oh, come on. No-one is deliberately posting badly just to annoy you.

The thread about the bucket of vomit and the fish swimming in it earlier had me feeling pretty green but I survived the experience.

you do sound like you should borrow somebodies 50 Shades Of Shite - sorry Grey ...and chill out a bit of a lot

Thanks for all the constructive posts , I am off as people are now starting to be rude.

I hid that bucket of vomit thread.

Lemarche I am now so distracted by more interesting things and correctly written posts that I never returned.
Both words are correct. You are detracted whilst I became distracted by something else entirely ( and it wasn't the literary pile of cack that is Mr Grey).

shattered if it matters so much to you that you "despise" it then I suggest you a little bit over sensitive. There are very real important things to despise in this grotty world of ours for example cancer, dictators and pedophiles[sp?]

Somebody's

Posted to soon but can't be bothered to argue with rude people anymore.

See I don't mind at all the attempt at peadophile. In fact my iPad desperately tried to change it. I like the fact you added sp? Shows awareness.

I still despise poor grammar.

Illnesses and their ilk are not despicable. They just exist and are the fault of no one.

Poor grammar on the other hand.... can be corrected

Was it me Lemarche???

Although I am crap at spelling I am rather good at scrabble. You may think this is unlikely but what many people don't realise is that many words have an 'alternative' spelling variant . For example many plural words that end with a 'Y' that would normally be spelt with an 'ies' ending can be spelt with a 'ys' ending. Basically, if it sounds like it might be a word it often is.
That is my excuse anyway.

It was truly revolting, wasn't it, usual? Unfortunately having seen it I couldn't un-see it, so now I'm just sharing the pain.

shattered, I don't care how you spell or use grammar, but what she's trying to tell you is that a person or thing can't be 'detracted', they have to be detracted from. It means taken away.

Still don't quite understand why you despise it though shattered. Just seems rather extreme.

To me two, too and to are separate words with distinct meanings. But like altinkum, sometimes I mean to write one and find I've written the other.

This isn't hugely odd, btw, it's not just a dyslexic quirk. I read a study about how seeing one word primes perfectly NT people to think of the homophones. Interesting stuff.

See I don't mind at all the attempt at peadophile. In fact my iPad desperately tried to change it. I like the fact you added sp? Shows awareness.

Oh, the irony...

I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt on here because it's so easy to make mistakes if you're typing quickly. Also, I spell here as I would usually because I'm lucky to be a good speller, whereas I know some people constantly check their spellings for work et cetera and here it really isn't as important as long as you can be understood.

Some things do annoy me (could of, discrete/discreet) but I probably wouldn't pull somebody up on them. I might moan about it on pedants' corner, but it's to be expected there. I do occasionally do it to my friends and family (I do TEFL so I do it without thinking sometimes), but get mercilessly teased for it! I might point it out if somebody had written a draft of an e-mail or letter, or in a situation where it would actually be helpful.

YANBU in that it shouldn't be done to score a cheap point.

Ha ha... A thread just started in Aibu slating iPhone users and spelling etc.... I have just pointed out op has lacked commas and a question mark herself! Wonder what she will say..... I'm likely to be flamed for it.

I rarely see anyone correct spelling or grammar on here... maybe I am not hanging out on the right threads?

I will be honest and say though, that I have skipped posts that have terrible grammar or are like text speak... simply because I find it too much hard work, having to re-read it and get figure out what the person is actually saying.

I wouldn't correct someone's S or G though, that is pretty rude. It also shows that a person is grabbing at straws to keep an argument going to upset the other person. If you are in a debate, you are just distracting from the point of the thread...

YABU. Normally I've only seen criticism when a poster either makes so many mistakes that their post is illegible... OR.... they're making some high-handed comment about their intellectual superiority or the low standard of the education system. Typos are fine. Grammar bloopers are fine. But no-one likes a hypocrite. :)