Spelling mistakes on social media

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Am I wrong to be completely outraged by the spelling mistakes on social media? Why are there so many people who can't tell the difference between "two", "too" or "to" or "there" and "their". Another cause of massive aggravation to me is when someone says they are "on route" somewhere - oh my good God!!! And don't even get me started on the use of apostrophes!!!

op you have to much time on your hands

user504 You are addressing every member on this thread with that "helpful" contribution.

YANBU. As eny fule noe.

Would of , could of, should of - gives me the rage

A "wide birth". Always makes me think of childbearing hips!

I actually fell sorry for any dyslexic
people reading this post! Please tell me that you don't correct any mistakes. I know some of the 'mistakes' won't be down to spld but some will. My DD's have enough of an issue with self esteem due to their problems with spelling and the English language without people going out of their way to make them feel 'stupid'

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Another one that winds me up on a regular basis - most recently tonight on the thread about whether 50yr olds should be having regular sex - discreet/discrete - they have entirely different meanings! (Confident that posters on this thread will share my pain. )

I can't abide the could of / could have business but my absolute worst is defiantly instead of definitely! Read what you are writing. It's a whole different word!! Ffs.

"Your gay"

As in, that gay belongs to you

My friend says 'seen as' / 'scene as' rather than seeing as.
I've also read a sales post for Chester draws. I did have a little giggle.

Yes! Discreet/discrete.... But I feel this battle is not going to go our way.

It's almost as if some people think 'discrete' is a better word - sort of ultra discreet .

I think I should start a discrete thread, discreetly, of course, recommending the excellent site that is www.grammarley.com

Last one.... Bargin!

Fuck! grammarly.com
Serves me right.m

www.sciencealert.com/people-who-constantly-pick-up-grammar-mistakes-are-kinda-jerks-scientists-find

Like I've never heard that one before....
DH, science degree/technocrat, career in banking then teaching, was resigned to having his pupils point out his spelling mistakes whenever he wrote on the board. Barely literate.

Loose instead of lose really annoys me. There/their/they're mistakes come in a close second.

Angle. Angle is a measurement not Angel

Perhaps they are a cute angle.

I can't really get that worked up about misspellings on Facebook. I get far more annoyed with the tiresome 'this is evidence of a shocking decline in educational standards, we are all going to hell in a handcart' bollocks that pedants like to spout. There has never been a time when everyone could spell and punctuate perfectly, I've looked at the private correspondence of working-class people from nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain and some of it is every bit as unintelligible and has as many misspellings as any Facebook post. It is just that now social media allows us to see how others use and abuse written English in a way we couldn't before.

YABU to think it. But come on OP, these threads never go well, as pedants more knowledgable than yourself drive holes through your own grammar!

Why open yourself to it?

Not one of us, no matter how clever we think ourselves, is immune to mistakes.

This drives me crazy! 'Should/would of' and 'Brought vs bought' (which I see a lot on this site) both really set my teeth on edge.

I've noticed on Facebook and BTL comments on news sites that there seems to be a direct link between level of racism/bigotry expressed in a post and level of spelling/grammar used to express it.

Not that all those with bad spelling and grammar are racist and bigoted, but certainly most of those who are racist and bigoted seem to have bad spelling and grammar. Urgh.

The thing is, I find it very difficult to read posts where they have used the wrong word, particularly when it's not a homophone. I find misspellings easier to deal with.

For example lose/loose. When I read the sentence I will 'say' the word in my head, so where the wrong word has been used I can't make the sentence make sense and get in a muddle. It's not just me being pedantic for the sake of it.

Definately agree OP - your NB at all U.

(my autocorrect has just done its damnedest to correct the D word above, so how come so many get it wrong?)

The particulars of a house a DD is hoping to buy gives its location as on the 'boarders' of X and Y - this a favourite one with EAs, along with shower 'cubicals'.

The odd one does make me laugh, like the 'chez lounge' advertised on my local Freecycle a while ago.

It's FB, not a job application. My spelling's good, but I could forgive errors on FB, as it's an informal setting.

Definately agree OP - your NB at all U

my autocorrect has just done its damnedest to correct the D word above, so how come so many get it wrong

It's hard to know whether people are taking the piss or not and are making deliberate mistakes in their replies.

😂

This is satire, isn't it?!