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!

Sorry Brittania, I should have been clearer, the Facebook page, not this one! And apologies for the misspelling. (hangs head in shame emoticon)

Honeytea, this group has over 10,000 members, they can't all have a condition that makes spelling difficult surely?

• disclaimer - was supposed to be a fairly light hearted thread!

But why should a dyslexic person spell check everything just to avoid offending someone? I spell check my work documents but I dont spell check my mumsnet/facebook posts. I enjoy posting and I don't want spell checking to become something I do in my leisure time. The other issue is that some words especially homophones are hard to identify the correct spelling, it's all very well saying tell your child the difference between pail and pale but after decades of education I couldn't tell you which word was correct.

honeytea I'm dyslexic too, as is DD1 and it makes my blood boil that people judge her as thick because her written work is littered with spelling mistakes. While they heap praise on her younger sister.

Which of them is the cleverer, only time will tell as DD2 is 3 years younger, and they are very different. My honest guess is that there is bugger all difference.

The difference is the constant fight DD1 has with school to be put in sensible sets.

Me, I was so badly behaved when they stuck me in set 2 for English that she threw me back to set 1 at the earliest possible opportunity.

I have two grade A English O'levels. The rest of my O'Levels are As too. (the only person in my year to do this and many of my cohort went to good unis and one to med school. A's were not given out like sweets in 1984 and A* didn't exist).

Yes this is a boast, but my good grades were in large part due to the fact that the only way a dyslexic can get any peace is to better than everyone else in exams.

The expression on my sarcastic Biology masters face when I came top in his exams was priceless. For six months he'd been publicly ribbing me for my presentation and spelling

Since my post grad degree is in Biochemistry, I'm not sure who had the last laugh?

As DD1 is heard to say, "Dyslexia does not mean thick", but by hell it makes you stubborn!

My local Gumtree is smilar.

I do wonder if there was a memo I missed about FB spelling. A lot of it is all "gawjus hun" etc.

Being in the middle of a row with school to allow her to do 3 sciences when she wants to be a scientist. This is not a light hearted subject to me.
It's one that makes me shout, swear, cry and feel enormously guilty as dyslexia is strongly inherited.

Startail, I am sorry if I have offended you, but did you miss the bit where I explained I am dyslexic? I have worked really hard, and sometimes still make mistakes, even after double checking, but I do at least try. Would you, or your dd, really make this many mistakes in one post, because you suffer from dyslexia?

"yh dat wernt ment to cum onto dis pic nt even dis page lol , remove me coment coz cnt do it meself shit fone soz"

I swear this is a cut and paste from 10 mins ago, and this is not in the least bit unusual.

I used to work at a university - a reasonably good one. And none of the students there could spell for shit, I was appalled.

I have actually asked some of my FB contacts who write like that why they do it. The response was generally 'who fucking cares?', one I knew to be dyslexic the others just didn't care enough to spell things correctly.

My DH is dyslexic, and he uses spell checks and looks a word up if he doesnt know how to spell it. Neither of us is 'offended' by the spelling and grammar mistakes, it just seems like laziness and sums up the attitude of the next generation to me.

And some of it just makes it bloody hard to read!

I have also worked hard to find coping mechanisms for my dyslexia, but I still make mistakes. I am forever thinking of ways to avoid words and simplify my written English so I come across as much less articulate when I write in comparison to when I speak.

All of the people on the facebook group won't be dyslexic but what offended me was the idea that you can judge a person on their spelling.

Posted by accident before I was finished. I do agree that there isn't really any need for text speak, I actually can't read text speak. As for phonetic spelling I was taught to resort to phonetic spelling if I was unsure of a word as then at least the reader can sound out the word.

Fair enough be a snob about spelling but do be aware that whilst you are doing this you are including people with learning differences in your judgements. Lots of dyslexic people try their very hardest and that will never be good enough to overcome the problem.

Those people who say they know dyslexic people who just look a word up, again lots of dyslexic people can't do that.

I feel lucky that I am dyslexic, there are so many positives, spoken language is much easier for me to learn than an average person. When I speak Swedish my pronunciation is so good people are surprised when I tell them I am English. My. I find it easy to think outside the box and I am very creative. If I was asked to swap those skills for perfect spelling I wouldnt I just wish people would get over prejudice against poor spellers.

I like the hunning and kissing on my Fb page. I like the sense of community it fosters too.

I save my judginess for the shit that counts.

there was a lot of Pepper Pig stuff for sale on our local page. and much loling and hunning. very little actually being sold though.

I'm dyslexic ( this is all getting a bit I'm Spartacus and so's my wife ) and I'm hyper aware of how things should be because I know if I relax and start hurrying no bugger will have a clue what I'm trying to say. I re-read everything about six times to make sure it makes sense ( which usually means the thread has moved on several pages in the time it takes me to get my act together! )

Lyke = Like
Nyt = Night

Gets on my tits every time!

It's really quite amusing how many of the people here professing to detest bad spelling and grammar are making mistakes of their own. OP, for instance, needs to review her knowledge of both spelling and the use of apostrophes. BalloonTwister describes herself as an "anally-retentive pedant" in the same breath as misspelling the word "grammatical".

In short, few people are immaculate enough in their use of language that they are in a position to criticize others. An adage about stones and glass houses...

Goodness, this is a judgy thread.

Also op claiming that her examples were spelt phoneticall, educashional is not how you would phonetically spell educational.

Oh please tell me how to find my local FB page.

Spelling is one of my bugbears too. The amount of horrendous spelling you see on a daily basis is increasing.

I totally accept that SOME people have dyslexia and struggle with spelling. What annoys me is the growing tendency for people to be lazy with spelling and blame their dyslexia, when they often haven't even been properly diagnosed with it.

TheVaginator...that wasn't actually me. I will, however, accept IABU with regards to other people's spelling.

Parrakeet - try typing the name of your local town and the words "selling" or "facebay" into the facebok search bar.

TheVag That was me! See what I mean about having to read everything over and over ... But I was properly diagnosed so that's alright

( Buggers off before she can shame herself further ... )

I was clutching more than my pearls, when I saw some unsavouries selling devices that take security tags off clothes!!!! I actually questioned them, asking what they were used for? And they came back saying that they were novelty items!!! I then clicked the 'Leave Group' button!

What annoys me is the growing tendency for people to be lazy with spelling and blame their dyslexia, when they often haven't even been properly diagnosed with it.

The problem is that there are lots of people slightly older than me who were never given the chnace to be diagnosed, my mum who is in her 40's is in my opinion obviously dyslexic but it was unheared of when she was at school. For her to get diagnosed now would be expensive and not really productive in anyway. I was diagnosed at school, but only as a teanager. I think these days teachers and parents are alot more aware of dyslexia and it is picked up on early.

I wonder if it offends people when others are lazy with their speach? I was taught to pronounce my words correctly but I realise many people don't and use lazy shortenings. Is that as anoying too?