To think that it is very unfair, to pick someone up on spelling or grammar, just because you disagree with what they are saying.

[smokepole]

I posted recently on a ongoing topic in this section, I was picked up for my "appalling" grammar, my use of punctuation and for my sentence construction. I noticed that when my opinion changed , strangely enough my grammar or incorrect use of exclamation marks was not picked up upon. I have noticed that this happened on other threads as well. I think this is wrong for two reasons, the first being that it is a kind of bullying, intimating that because someone struggles with spelling, punctuation or correct sentence construction, that there are thick, therefore their argument or view point does not stand up. The other point it is very unfair to pick people up who have not benefited from higher education, or in my case not even education post GCSE'S, people need to realise this and accept that they have been fortunate to have been able to access higher education, but they need to give people like me some slack over my poor grammar or sentence construction.

I'm guessing her apostrophe key is sticky, then.

I love cross-language puns.

Gotten is US English, I would say, so fine in the context of an international website like this, but not something I would write at work.

A poster can't read a post because it has no paragraphs then why do they comment at all?

Again, breathtaking arrogance to think that their 'paragraphs please. Reading that has given me a headache' is pure, self indulgent wankery.

The op will manage perfectly well with the comments of those prepared to decipher their post.

Even where the meaning isn't clear, I would rather just check with the OP- "do you mean, x is true, or do you mean y?" There's no need to spell out why you can't quite tell; you just need to check what she wanted to say, so you can have the discussion.

Beastof

She did indeed. I think we've established that it ' s an auto correct.

Swedish - I loved that toys are lekr. Lecker is German for "yummy". And one teen was saying how something was "ekel" meaning horrible, as in ekelhaft in German. And born for kids, as in bairn. Obviously I have no clue how anything is spelled in Swedish

My favourite is "bro". Or "braw"!

I love even more that "hello" seems to be "hi" or even, "hi-hi"

Do you think that's where the US usage comes from, via Minnesota?

I read a thread once where an op was upset and postings confusing, slightly scattergun op.
A couple of posters were sniffy and sarcastic. A few gently asked some questions and the ops dilemma quickly became obvious and understandable.
It's not difficult.

Given the subject matter of the thread I should explain that my posts are slightly incoherent because I am astonishingly tired and should go to bed really.

Oh, that really is a crap, pag. Especially since the first few replies set the tone of the thread and you do post in a fairly incoherent way if you're upset (or most of us do).

You're not being incoherent, btw.

The thing is, there's so much fun to be had from language. A good franglais thread, or a new language, is a joy. And of course i personally enjoy using language well and accurately, including in English. I have to not let that turn into a lack of sympathy with ppl for whom it just isn't a priority or a special pleasure.

I love classical music and I perform it a lot. I hate and am bored to tears by all forms of pop music, rock, rap, etc. I do realise this is just me and I don't expect any sympathy if I start on about how simplistic a certain bit of music is compared with a bit of classical. I enjoy my pleasure and let other people set their own priorities. I am right about music though

Yes, but maybe lecker comes from laiking, IYSWIM.

I love that too- are you in Northumbria?

It really was LRD. She was really distressed. I wish I could remember the kind souls who gently unpicked her situation and helped her with a personal crisis.
Mn can be quite wonderful at times

I am going to have a bubble bath now.

It really can be.

I remember someone sending me a lovely PM when I was a newbie and I'd posted something really completely incomprehensible because I was all upset. She's NCd since then so I don't know who she is now, but it was really kind.

Enjoy your bath, beast.

Hello is hej or hej ( hey, but with some accents does sound alot like hi!) oddly goodbye is hej-då (hello-then) or hej hej. It could well be where the American "hi" and "hey" come from.

Bro is a word I struggle with, bro means bridge but bror means brother, we recently found out that I'm pregnant with a little boy, I put a facebook status up saying "lille bro!" which means little bridge instead of little brother

One of the words I find interesting is "berserk" in Swedish the word "besök" means to visit, I can imagine the Vikings arriving and saying "hej! We are here for a besök" and the English people not knowing what besök ment and assumed it ment the crazy behavior the Vikings were displaying.

However, if I remember rightly, theres been a few posts with a distressed OP, where a poster has helped by rephrasing and paragraphing the OP.

What if someone's SPAG improves due to online comments, and they correct that glaring mistake in their C.V. as a result?

Duckworth to get a statement in our LEA you need to be functionally illiterate, such is the lack of support available. DD has quite severe dyslexia and her writing/grammar/spelling is appalling, however as she can read and write after a fashion she does not have a statement. She does however have a professional assessment, which won't have made it into that 2.8% you quote.

You can't glibly say that SN isn't a problem based on the %ge of the population with a SEN.

I am a bit of a pedant (of course I will now have made several glaring spelling/grammatical errors in this post!), but I tend not to point it out on a thread, as that's just rude. I do give an inner RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! every time I see 'of' for 'have' and 'loose' for 'lose'. I can see why phonetically you might think 'loose' is correct, but it still gives me rage.

there it goes again...

there have been

I really would rather write er hebben gezien or er hast

English is so irregular.