To think basic literacy skills on this board are AWFUL

[Pinkandwhiteblossoms]

I know it's bad form to point it out in the midst of someone else's distress, but seriously, am I the only one who has noticed it?

"your defiantly wrong"
"have you considered councilling"
"their going to take over"
"alot of people don't bother"

I'm not expecting Samuel Pepys but seriously, I find it difficult to respond as the wider point is lost amidst the terrible writing!

And seriously for people taking the piss out of those less educated than themselves I still managed to understand all of the posts ( and you just managed to look a bit of a cunt taking the piss) and I am not a literary genius:

You could of been a bit more carring their, but it's ok to loose your cool now and then

You could have been a bit more caring there, but it's ok to loose your cool now and then

Ow ma word.......

Oh my word....

I am a bit of a grammer natzi meself, but on this bored their is a lot of peoples whoos first language isn't Enlish. Not wroth makin a fuss aboot.

I am a bit of a grammar nazi myself, but on this board there are a lot of people whose first language isn't English. It's not worth making a fuss about

Your been unreesnable

You're being unreasonable (YABU)

u r sew hilarious

You are so hilarious ( funny that the hardest word was the only one spelt correctly )

Wat is u on about

What are you on about?

Yes sum oarful fox passes

Yes, some awful faux pas

So if you can't understand posts like these then perhaps you aren't the intellectual you claim to be(again I am not a literary genius).

Grammar police would be fun. They would add a whole new layer of derailment and bunfightery to each thread. Such carnage.

Meh. Some people are dyslexic, some people are victims of autocorrect, some people are a bit distressed/drunk, some people were never able to access a decent education, some people are (shock horror) a bit thick.

I'm as judgy as the next viper but poor SPAG on an online forum is a non issue.

Bad grammar and spelling irritates me too.

But do you know what irritates me even more? People who insist on correcting other people's spelling and grammar, or who proudly proclaim themselves to be pedants and 'grammar nazis' as if they expect some sort of fucking medal.

YABVU.

Just set a good example, dear.

(And yes I did put 4 dots on my ellipsis )

I can't remember who it was, Miltop. Some invasion by some bunch from a bike forum, or a bunch of MRAs, or possibly even nethuns (pop over there if you are shocked by mn, op). They inspired a raft of 'grammer police' namechanges for ages. Never piss off the pedants.

Use a spell check, then you won't get any problems.-
Eye have a spelling chequer, it came with my pee cee, it clearly Marques four my revue miss steaks I can knot sea. I strike a quay and type a word and weight fore it two say, weather eye am Wright oar wrong it shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid it nose bee four two long and eye can putt the error rite, it's rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it, I am shore your pleased two no it's let her perfect awl the weigh my chequer tolled ,me sew!

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I certainly wasn't taking the piss out of anyone but the OP.

To be honest, but seriously hun, who cares?

YANBU no excuses

littleoldladywho That is most excellent- what hilarious revenge.

Pedantry can truly be tortuous.

I would respectfully advise you to start your own forum, open solely on native English speakers, with a degree in English or at least a valid qualification proving that they master their language to a minimum level.

English is not my first (or even my second) language, so I find your smug and judgmental post vaguely amusing but I do feel sorry for posters who only dare asking for help online and will be put off by people like you.

I was surprised that some English speakers only learnt that 1st comes from firST or 3rd from thiRD on this forum, because it's something I was taught when I started learning your language around 10 years ago. If children are not learning the same basic at school, take it with the authorities in charge of education, not people who are doing their best.

I can see how it happens when people are typing quickly, and of course if someone has learning problems, dyslexia or is just not strong on spelling then they still have every right to post and share problems and chat etc.

The two things I struggle with though, and these are completely avoidable, are when people use words or phrases they don't know the meaning of, resulting in funny spellings or, and this drives me mad, infantile versions of words, like 'judgy' instead of judgemental, 'ragey' etc.

Wonder what OP makes of things like because (by the cause of) and beside (by the side) and o'clock (of the clock) and isn't it (is not it) and goodbye (god be with you). God forbid we get onto ending sentences with prepositions or splitting infinitives or dangling modifiers. No, that is not a euphemism. All those horrible, sloppy habits we've accepted into mainstream language and up with which we should not put.

Someone pass the smelling salts.

Op, unkind post lots of people on here struggle with spelling & grammar. I do as I had a stroke a few years ago which has left some residual damage, puts me off posting quite a bit as I get mixed up with to/too their/there etc I'm not thick & reasonably well educated & have a good vocabulary, just not brilliant at the mechanics of spelling & grammar.
Yabu

OP, it doesn't matter. My spelling is atrocious on here. IRL I'm an editor and have to nitpick every last comma and apostrophe. On here I type fast, badly and don't correct or proof my work. I'd be guilty of alot just because crappy speed typing sometimes misses out the spacebar. It's not necessarily a sign the posters are subliterate.

YABU. Your grammar and diction could be better. Three words for you: pot, kettle, black.

This sort of shit must really put some members/lurkers off of posting.

I live in a very poor London borough, where domestic violence, poverty, obesity, drug, alcohol addiction is rife.

Some of the parents here could (imo) really do with the help Mumsnet has to offer.

But why the fuck would they want to post for help, if they think they're going to be ridiculed for their grammar and spelling?

Looking at my local Facebook pages, lots of these people are barely literate, so they'd probably get a real verbal kicking from some of the dicks on here, if they turned to MN for help.

YABU

Occasionally there is a post which is difficult to decipher because of hopeless punctuation, spelling and basic grammar but on the whole I think it's ok. I am much more interested in the sentiments expressed, and constantly impressed by the quality of advice offered (now that I have learned to ignore the unnecessarily aggressive and unhelpful contributions).

Hey op -

It's PUBLICLY NOT PUBLICALLY

You're welcome

Yep and as Worra says, who cares if they are? It's the content that matters.

YABU

people like you OP really damage the confidence of people like me - with a SLD

I struggled for YEARS at work with being asked to 'write on the flipchart paper' etc etc in meetings and training due to people mocking my spelling and making me feel 'thick and uneducated' - I am neither - and now I am 46 I am able to say fuck it and not let it get to me.

People need to think that the smug superior feeling they get from mocking peoples spelling may actually be hurting people with a disability - cocks that they are :(

A lot of it is due to autocorrect and people not being sure how to spell things. Mine took ages to work out as sometimes it will automatically place a word and sometimes it doesn't, my son had to show me how to work around it