For wanting to stick pins in my eyes when people write "on route"

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If you don't understand how to write something then don't try and be clever.

I personally don't think spelling mistakes are much of an issue. Just because you spell something wrong it doesn't mean you don't know what that word means or in what context it should be used in.

Certainly doesn't mean your stupid!

I also don't see how dyslexia is bought in to this?

If there's something that should be bothering people its those that don't attempt to learn any correct spellings such as the amount of people who will use "text talk" in all areas of life not just personally.

I have worked in care for 4 years and let me tell you it involves an awful lot of paper work including important pieces such as detailed reports and support plans. I can't tell you how many times people have HAD to be picked up and reprimanded for writing sentences such as....

"Josh woz very gud at activity 2day"
bloody horrific when people think this is an acceptable way to fill in a daily report which will then be archived and used as proof of a childs progress certainly wouldn't want my child bring cared for by someone who makes NO effort to spell!

The thread in pedents' corner was started to take the piss out of a poster. I'm glad it got deleted.

It was perfectly clear that it wasn't. It was like every other thread there, i.e. basically a poster blowing off steam about something she didn't like (and which others regularly complain about) and which comes up quite often, both on and off MN. In essence, it's no different to people coming on AIBU and sounding off about cyclists or white van drivers or sahms or whatever - others may not agree with them but the threads don't get zapped. People linking this to a specific poster were being at best over-sensitive and at worst self-righteous.

It is interesting that that thread was deleted whereas this one, which includes direct links, hasn't been. Very inconsistent on the part of MN.

Mothership there is also the option of silently wincing but keeping quiet.

I feel the same about their/they're/there

Heh, I had no idea that on route was wrong. What should it be? On root?

I assumed (apparently wrongly) that route related to a journey and root to plants or the beginnings of things.

I'm not intending to write the French phrase. Just say that I am somewhere on the way to somewhere else.

The french is 'en route' Looking but, as someone else said, 'on route' makes pretty good sense in english too

I wouldn't worry about it.

Exactly fide, that's what I try to do when DH get's his their/they're/there muddled up, the DC need it pointed out, and I may grumble on here about how DH makes me silently wince.

I don't see what's wrong or smug about a general grumble on here as long as it stays general and doesn't get personal.

Oh dear, I'm afraid my DH is (with my DC) one of the people I do feel happy to correct a lot

fide Maybe my DH is more sensitive than yours????

Or i'm more insensitive than you...

If you don't understand how to write something then don't try and be clever.

Oh, that is genius.

Whoops.

I prefer some of the 'mistakes' to the original. How can 'dire rear' not be better? Right?

And some of them get accepted into standard English anyway. 'Butterflies' used to be 'flutter-byes' IIRC.

"However, you can be a literary genius and a cunt, or practically illiterate and wonderful. I know whose company I'd prefer"

Oh yes!

"I also don't see how dyslexia is bought in to this?"

That would be because you don't understand dyslexia - I posted a link to word snafus below, naturally you are not obliged to read it but if you genuinely don't see it and want to know more you could google rather than dismiss it?

I always correct my husband. He doesn't mind, so long as I do it matter-of-factly and helpfully.

It's taken me about ten years to master that!

hmc

What I mean by that is...

No one is bashing dyslexics on here!!!!

Not being able to spell certain words and phrases and being dyslexic is a completely different kettle of fish.

theres always someone who has to bring a disability or similar into the mix when the post is not aimed at that in the slightest.

Regardless of that I dont agree with op.

I think what you mean is, no-one intended their posts to upset dyslexics.

But unfortunately, they did.

At some stage, you have to take a bit of responsibility and think 'hmm, if I poke fun at something closely associated with a disability, might it actually be upsetting?'

That's my take, anyway. Though TBH I thought a lot of this thread really wasn't doing that, and I've seen much worse.

Oh dear!

Dyslexia isn't just about issues with spelling - it encompasses malapropisms like those being derided here (and now I really do urge you to read the l

...read the link.

And with 1 in 10 people affected by dyslexia ( including several of my close family) I am very fucking sorry for "bringing disability into it"

Yeah that's what I meant.

But having worked with children with autism and sld I don't constantly jump to defend them when a subject was not aimed at them.

Had op said aibu that dyslexics are always spelling things wrong then yeah bash away and slap them with a big wet fish. But they weren't or at least it most definitely didn't seem that way to me.

Moaning about spelling has nothing to do with dyslexia. Dyslexia is much more complex than just the lack of ability to spell words.

Hmm got there before I did hmc..

you seem to have jumped down my throat about nothing...

Well, no one is forcing you to defend children with autism or sld, are they?

But some people do feel defensive. Or even hurt.

Of course dyslexia is much more complex than inability to spell, or even tendency to use the word words. But it is strongly associated with spelling, which is why some people might feel upset.

Can you honestly not see that?

I'm sorry I can't discuss it with you any longer - you're making my head implode!

I love 'walla' - I have never actually seen that myself, but 'on route' yes, I have.

One poster complained about 'expresso'. Expresso is the French for espresso - so it's not technically incorrect, but when it is written on a menu where all the other terminology is Italian then it can be irritating, I agree.

Language develops over time, it isn't set in stone, but if you are going to use a particular term you have heard, why would you not check how it was spelled before you wrote or typed it?