AIBU to want to poke people with forks when they

[AliceInUnderpants]

use the non-English word que when they really want to say CUE

It's not a typo. I see it very regularly on forums and it does my fucking head in.

Now, que lots of people telling me IABU

As long as they weren't talking about Chester draws

The only people who deserve correcting are those who make a spelling, punctuation or grammar error while correcting another poster.

glaringly obvious spelling mistakes aren't always so for everyone

I have a learning disability - 'cue' is a word I really struggle with - having my spelling errors mocks really helps though

I thought this was going to be about not wanting to share food. Writing brought instead of bought is the one that annoys me the most. How on earth is it possible to get those two mixed up?

Mine is brought when they mean bought. No you didn't Bring, it you Bought it! Boils the piss

I have a MSc in Linguistics (and am naturally an asshole too). I basically spent 4 years at university learning how to get wound up by other peoples' spelling and grammatical mistakes.

Keep the forks away from me or there'll be a blood bath.

I see this a lot and it doesn't "bug" me in the sense that spelling errors don't really bother me that much in casual writing, but it stops me in my tracks because it's difficult to read "que" as "cue" (especially if you speak a foreign language). If you were going to spell the word incorrectly wouldn't you write queue, or kew?

It's very different to hear hear/ here here, which is a logical misspelling of an illogical British term.

herecomethepotatoes An asshole?

Are you American? In this country we say 'arse'. An ass is a donkey.

YANBU. As Mistigri says, it doesn't read as "cue" and I don't understand how anyone thinks it could.

Another of my bugbears is things like "school role" and "electoral role". They're ROLLS, ffs!

I wonder why it is that on MN you're allowed to get irritated by all sorts of things, but you simply aren't allowed to get irritated by bad spelling and grammar?

^charlestonchaplin - herecomethepotatoes An asshole?

Are you American? In this country we say 'arse'. An ass is a donkey.^

Sorry. Auto correct. You arsehole.

That's it mistigri, que isn't even close to cue. I don't understand where it comes from - and it's an increasingly common mistake.

It occured to me recently that, if someone were to make a basic mathematical error, people wouldn't think twice about correcting them - because two and make four - that's just a fact. Probably just outed myself as an arsehole.

I don't think role/roll is a serious error in casual writing, the meaning is invariably obvious from the context.

Errors which are phono logically implausible are more "jarring". I'm not sure that my bilingual kids would read "que" as "cue" at all, they would probably go "huh?" - or possibly "que?" in DD's case since she is also fluent in Spanish .

I often want to take a red pen to my Facebook feed - but then I realised friends are more important than correcting spag . I still do it in my head though. Worst offender for me is "should of" or "could of"!

Keep the pitchforks on standby. Pulling up people on their spelling mistakes is a good thing - if you want to communicate with strangers in writing, mind your spelling. Otherwise, this forum descends into nethun level (where one struggles to find a post without spelling errors.)

I'm confused, and not in a snarky way.

Are you saying that queue, as in to stand in line, is wrong? Or que is wrong if used, for example, as "oh que the violins"?

I don't care much about spelling, grammar and paragraphs. I don't much care for pulling people up on it either.

It's not an English exam or an educational experience it's a chat forum.

If the post can be understood then what's the problem really.

Um que should be cue.

Ah thanks for the clarification.

YANBU. As Mistigri says, it doesn't read as "cue" and I don't understand how anyone thinks it could.

Because 'cue' and 'queue' are both pronounced the same, it's not a massive leap to misspell either as 'que' IMO.

I'm from this country. I say asshole. And arsehole.

TooOld - Queue is to stand in a lilne.
Cue means to some up next, as in Cue the violins.

Que - is pronounced 'Kay' and is spanish for 'what?'

I have been known to correct poster's grammar (notable could of/should of) and don't mean it maliciously. I think every day is a school day and if someone learns how to read and write their own language, it is a good thing.

I am not sure many posters are up for a patronising English lecture. They are just posting on an internet forum.

But DoJO - where does the 'you' sound come from in "que"? There isn't one. If there was, the extra vowels wouldn't be required in the word "queue".

Americanisms don't bother me (as long as the meaning is clear - there are US usages which lend themselves to confusion if used in a UK english context). I don't think anyone seriously risks misinterpreting the word asshole .

I tend to give the benefit of the doubt most of the time since spelling correction on phones and tablets can be so random, and in any case typos are easy to make when you're writing on a small screen. In a casual context, it doesn't matter as long as the meaning is clear and the ideas being expressed are coherent.

But I think many people, and especially those for whom English is not a first language, would struggle with a sentence like "she missed her que" (even in context).