not understand why women can't spell anymore

[ColleenfromPA]

To be fair I haven't really noticed this til I became pregnant and started using mumsnet/fb/text message more but when did half of women completely lose the ability to spell words correctly. I mean sometimes I have no idea what the heck is going on. I mean is their keyboard broke or are they getting charged by the letter?

Example someone please translate this for me: "js rushed home to lie don its buggin me im not abin much luck in this pregnancy at all breezed throu my others reali it mst b age"

or this " i can hardly see at miih" what the heck is a miih?

I take it this is not a young lady thing because this woman is in her 40s. My own mother constantly struggles with threw/through or you're/your. Did I miss some sort of revolution in language some time ago?

I assume OP, this is a wind up?

Are you Michael Gove?

I don't ever recall a golden age when everyone could spell well, male or female.

I think most of the time is a TYPING issue rather than a spelling issue.

But errors in grammar however are another matter entirely .....

Im really emjoyin this fred.

Hilarious...

I think it is typing errors mostly. If you have an ipad or phone with self-correct function, things can come out very strangely.

I don't really bother to check my posts before I send them. I know I should but that is one reason why my posts often have mistakes in them.

I didn't understand "miih" either.

I am a woman and I can spell anymore: A N Y M O R E. There you go

Actually, I think MN is full of people who can spell, construct a sentence and express themselves brilliantly in writing, especially compared to the general public. I know all sorts of people, including academics, senior civil servants, medics, and teachers who can't really spell or write well. I have to for my job so I notice when people don't.

I ignore typos, I do them myself on here, when typing fast. Also there are a lot of acronyms that might confuse people.

Oh the irony!
Glass houses OP!
FWIW I am more than able to spell, and punctuate. Sadly my keyboard is a bastard. HTH!

Check your grammar, ColleenFromPA.

My huge breasts actually obliterate my view of the keyboard.

That would explain it.

Utter rubbish!!

My dh who is privately educated cannot spell for toffee waste of money

Doing a crossword is murder, I tell ya.....murder!

It can't be only women op! You have really jumped into the frying pan with your choice of aibu topic.

I think it's a mixture of text speak, typos, autocorrect & finally poor education. But YABU.

"Is their keyboard broke"?

Okaaaaaaaay.

I would guess the reason that some posts have spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes in them (ignoring the nonsense in your title about it being a 'woman thing), is either because people are posting on phones/ipad/ technological things and have predictive text, or other posting problems which lead to mistakes.

Or because, like me, people who post on a forum consider it to be like a conversation - quick, and spontaneous, and therefore subject to the occasional error. If someone is speaking to me I would consider it to be the height of bad manners to point out any mistake in their speech. If they are writing me a formal letter and it was full of mistakes, I would be more critical.

But frankly when I see OPs along the lines of 'my Dh has left me, I've lost my house, I'm suffering from depresion, and I don't where to turn'
and the first reply is 'do you mean depression OP? written with a virtually audible sneer, then my 'oh look there's a total Bell End-o-meter' instantly goes off.

^My huge breasts actually obliterate my view of the keyboard.

That would explain it.^

I had that problem until I learned to touch type. Could explain why more girls than boys are taught this skill.

Ohhhhhhhhh, so THAT'S why I always get the boy probationers to write all the statements is it ? Not because after twenty years of constructing prosecution files I've had enough practice whereas they haven't oh no. It's because they can spell like wot I carnt.

I pride myself on my good spelling. I must be a man.

any more

Its just nice to see so many full sentances and correct spelling in one place. Finally mumsnet you have done it! :)

sentances?

ephe - I, too, like to think my spelling is none too shabby. completely and utterly shite with grammar though

I must be one of the wummin OP has kindly fingered.

Where IS the OP? more importantly, is it too early to crack open a lovely Marlborough to enjoy in the sunshine?