to clutch my pearls in horror at the spelling on my local Facebook selling page?

[BalloonTwister]

All posted by adults, who presumably had an education. Recent examples include:

Good condishun
Chester draws
Tabel and chares
Ornimentel
Educashional toy (my personal favourite)

I think I'm going to have to leave the group, the urge to correct is going to get me into big trouble before long!

Ooh yes, the hunning. And the xxx to random strangers.

I feel your pain. Personally I'm such an anally-retentive pedant I tend to dish out my Free-cycle stuff according to the gramatical correctness of the replies. ( Cringe emoticon ... )

Chester Draws is my all time favourite.

Lots of people on here say draw instead of drawer. Have they never read anything in their life?

Chester Draws is my all time favourite.

Lots of people on here say draw instead of drawer. Have they never read anything in their life?

what's wrong with a good educashunal toy?
:o

Oh it's hysterical isn't it?

What does Chester draw then?

No idea Brittania. I am seriously concerned about phoenetic spelling though. :(

"Car 4 sale spairs or repares only"

Seriously? So close, but no cigar.

YANBU. And the use of numbers in place of similarly sounding words drives me loopy.

I think yabu and a little mean, my spelling is rubbish because I'm dyslexic, I have a degree and a professional job, spelling doesn't have to be an indicator of inteligence.

Would you look down on a deaf person because their speach wasn't clear?

Honeytea, I am not being mean, (I struggled with dyslexia at school, and my handwriting is still rubbish,) I am genuinely concerned by the amount of people in this country that cannot spell. All of my examples are phoenetically correct, as that is how schools teach children to spell now, and that causes me concern for my own childs future education.

Literally every other post on this page is either misspelled or uses text speak/ numbers for words and ya instead of you. It makes my eyes itch! :(

BalloonTwister I didn't use numbers and I didn't spell incorrectly and I didn't use text speak (don't even when I use my mobile). So it's not 'literally' everyone.

It's 'phonetically', by the way.

Haha, mine is called, 'Thing's for sale in ', so I can't even look on there.

It's the same on mine. I joined to try to sell a large item that was pointless to e-bay. It was like there was some kind of secret society on there - everyone seemed to know each other, wrote in text speak that I couldn't decipher, and completely ignored my post.

'lookin 4 a lil tykes car 4 my lil man, pm me if u hv 1' - what?!

I never used it again.

It is not because the schools teach phonics

I've had to leave mine. The spelling made me want to throw things. And quite frankly the guff people were selling wasn't worth it.

But how do you know they don't have a condition that makes it hard for them to spell? It really bothers me when people are judged on their spelling, it's great that you don't struggle with it but i do find it mean to laugh/judge other people because they happen to spell badly. It seems ok to snigger at people's spelling whereas it is not ok to snigger at the way people speak/walk/interact with others.

When I was at school I was never graded on my spelling, the idea at the time was that if the reader could understand the word then that was a good start.

I can allmost understand if you were looking at badly spelt cvs but you are looking at things ot buy on a facebook page, im sure the bad spelling doesn't effect the item for sale.

Anyway, if you find that your child misspells a word, why not take him/her through it and explain that it is wrong and why?

rulebritannia I think she means the fb page not this one?

Love Chester drawers that's hilarious!!

Oooh.

How do I find my local selling page?

honeytea - some of them might have a condition that makes it hard to spell, but the likelihood that such a high concentration of people would have the same condition, causing them to make the same spelling mistakes, is remote.

It's the same on local forums here - 'chester draws' is also one of my favourites.

spaires or repares best one yet!!

My dp is severely dyslexic, seriously cannot get it worse than he has it, I've seen the reports and him struggle for years, BUT there is this amazing technology on his phone/ipod/laptop called spell check, and he also is paranoid and gets me to to check everything he posts. I've found people with dyslexia care about making there spelling correct and seek out ways to do so, its general dumb arses who don't, and make up words.

YANBU, it's awful the abuse the English language gets these days.

Chester draws is fantastic though.