to defriend someone for actually using the word 'discusted'?

[LoopaDaLoopa]

In all seriousness. For real. She actually wrote that on her status.

Surely, not unreasonable to defriend?

I know, I was really just playing devil's avocado

well your my sister you funny kind and amazing although you can be annoying but i cant talk i love you to pieces and you have always been there for me and to stick up for me when i need it your just the best sister ever i dont know what i would do with out you llove you

That's my friend's Facebook status. She's a trainee teacher and a thoroughly lovely and charming person. I'm really glad she won't be teaching my children.

I can't bear it when people don't use full stops. Why don't they? Is it stupidity or laziness?? It has to be the latter seeing as you don't have to be clever to understand how full stops work

Perhaps she was drunk when she posted, it has that sort of feel to it?

Roughly how old is she? (and does she speak without pausing for breath :o)

Or maybe that's just the slang in her subculture?

There are some terribly snobby posts on this thread. I guess some of you are the type of people who would prefer to correct someone's spelling of a heartfelt but poorly written plea for help, rather than actually offer real help. I have a large variety of friends on Facebook. Some spell better than others but I'm not shallow enough to judge their worthiness on their academic intelligence.

19, not drunk, no particular subculture. This is standard stuff from her, I'm afraid . She's just one of those who thinks written accuracy is an unimportant and outdated concept.

someone's spelling of a heartfelt but poorly written plea for help

Sorry but the attention seeking idiots who do that on Facebook do get defriended, even if the dodgy spellers don't. Dear Zeezus, that shit is awful.

Grown adults who spell ridiculous as 'rediculous' ought to be put into Room 101, permanently - unless they have learning difficulties, or English is not their first language.

Has anyone mentioned Jo Frost's use of "asseptable"?????

It is so very tempting to go back through this thread to point out the mistakes made by those ridiculing the linguistically challenged, but, out of charity, I will forbear.

It is so very tempting to go back through this thread to point out the mistakes made by those ridiculing the linguistically challenged

It's an immutable law of nature that the more pedantically you're discussing standards of spelling, grammar and punctuation, the more likely you are to make mistakes yourself.

Muphry's law.