To correct their spelling

[FoxtrotFoxtrotSierra]

I'm a mature student and am a member of a Facebook group set up by one of the chaps on my course. Practically every post on it is making me want to gouge my own eyes out due to the text-speak or misspelling of very simple words.

In the last two days I've seen:

"Does anyone no" instead of "Does anyone know"
"Few" instead of "Phew"
My name all in lower case twice
Full stops instead of spaces

It's driving me potty!

WIBU to rewrite their comments underneath correctly? We actually have lessons on how to write (full stops at the end of sentences, appropriate use of lower and upper case letters) and I'm beginning to understand why!

Do younger people just not write how we oldies do anymore?

I am not known for spelling or grammar or pedantary (ery is it even a word) I type how I speak and auto correct is on so it doesn't always come out like how it sounds in my head.

I would be offended if a friend did what you want to do on my FB.

But I got the rage in the dentist a few days ago, took dd in and she needs another further appointment, I ask to make an appointment and the receptionist says yes when would you like to rebook, I answer no I don't want to rebook I want a new appointment, she said yes rebook I said no I would like to make a brand new appointment please and she said ok I'll rebook you in blablabla date. I so wanted to say look you silly cow your a receptionist you should be able to speak properly and know the difference between booking and rebooking argh but I just smiled and said very slowly ok I'll ring and confirm with someone else since I don't think you understand me and breezed out.

Did she not just mean she'd book your DD in again? As she's already had one appointment?

Or do you mean she thought you already had an appointment set up and you wanted to change the date?

No dd had her appointment and needed another appointment unrelated to that appointment if that makes any sense. It wasn't where she missed it and had to rebook it for a later date.

So what was wrong with what she said?

I think she just mean 'book in again'. Whenever I got to the hairdresser the receptionist asks me what sort of date I want to rebook for, I don't see anything odd about it.

Maybe your right, it sounded odd to me. I always though rebook meant rebook your appointment because you missed it or it was an ongoing thing not a totally new one.

No, I think you're probably technically right but I don't think I would have noticed it. It's quite a jargon-y thing to say IMO.

www.thefreedictionary.com/rebook

www.businessdictionary.com/definition/rebooking.html

are the only 2 examples I can find after typing in to rebook, what does rebook mean and just rebook on its own. I was right so it seems unless you can point me in the right direction to show otherwise.

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No, that link does say it can just mean 'book again', though.

I think you were talking cross-purposes with her as she mean the first meaning and you thought she meant the second!

Yes but it wasn't booking again it was booking a whole new type of appointment.

It appears to be compulsary on fb to use too many !'s and ?'s. There is no point in "!!!" surely?

I feel like the poor receptionist now!

She meant because you had just had one appointment, she was booking in for another one.

There's being right, and there's being an arse.

You left without making a further appointment, just to prove a point about semantics? You do realise you are the twat in that story, right?

I don't correct on Facebook even when it feels like my brain is melting through my ears because the rules are different there.

I did make the appointment, I just rang and confirmed later with someone else that the treatment appointment had been booked.

this should be in pedants' corner.

i would have commented on the "i no this stuff" comment.

the full stops instead of spaces are because they're posting from their phones. the full stop is right next to the space bar, and on some keyboards, it's easy to hit the . instead of the space

If this really bugs you then you need more excitement in your life.

Correcting another persons spelling is so very bloody rude and patronising.

My oldest has a degree in engineering but has dyslexia so can't spell. So fucking what.

I have spent a large proportion of my life teaching homophones. The proportion of my time spent doing this is larger than I would have liked.

Well, believe it or not, many students do know the difference, but they don't really care when writing on FB. If you have to do a group projet at any point YWNBU to correct such mistakes.

Euphemia You probably wouldn't be able to read the reply without having a severe tic anyway.
It takes me ages some days to work out what people are saying on FB when they are using a combination of text speak and Black Country together, and I am from the Black Country!

It is such a delicate situation isn't it? I'm in a similiar situation. I'm a health care professional and we have recently started a charity. The colleague who does the publicity (degree educated professional) spells worse than a primary school child.

Recent facebook status update "thanks too all the people who donnated the're time, your amasing!".

Ignore and get a stomach ulcer from repressed rage or start World War 3 in the work place?

If its just a few odd words that could be a mistake (I mixed up 'no' and 'know' recently on MN and didn't realise until I saw the post, and no editing on MN) it wouldn't bother me.... but it does pain me when I see total sentences in text speak

Weird thing just happened. Clicked onto my FB account and the first post is one of my friends 'liking' a photo from Black Country Photos!
Now I am wondering if Euphemia is my friend?

Foxtrot Bad spelling does not prevent understanding. And Mumsnet is for everyone, not just good spellers. its not an exam just a discussion. Let good and bad spellers join the debate. Everyone welcome. That said , teachers should be able to spell

YANBU but might come across as a knob if you do it.

It's people who mix 'lose' and 'loose' that get me. When I read I say the words in my head so it drives me mad.