Spelling!

[Blueuggboots]

I appreciate some people have dyslexia, SEN etc etc and this is not a dig at people with those problems but for the love of god, why can the majority of people not spell?!
It's not he's when you want to say his.
It's not discusting, it's disgusting.
If it belongs to them, it's their's, not there's
It's know if you know something and no if you're saying no to something.
It drives me fucking potty! We all have our strengths and weaknesses but these mistakes are constant on these threads.

Another one that keeps cropping up is 'I'm phased' instead of 'fazed'.

And hundreds of ect instead of etc. Infuriating 😬

I will omit an apostrophe or misspell a word on a social media forum because it frankly doesn't matter I see this a lot (from Limit this time, but this is a general point) and it confuses me. It suggests someone might know the correct spelling/grammar but be able to switch that knowledge off and effectively choose to be incorrect. How? If I know how to spell/punctuate something I just know. There’s no decision or carelessness involved.
I do, however, make many, many errors due to poor typing/autocorrect/bonkers iPad keyboard.

Here here!

It is Hear Hear...

Say wot you like , beeing abel to spott pore speling and dodgy grammer is definately a help in spoting scamz

Absolutely!

And bye the way - yor uncle in Outer Mongolia has died and left you £1000000000 - but I just need you trasfur £1000 inot the bellow bank account before we can releese it throuhg custom.
Thaking you in advance (Bank acct 123456789)

That's a very good point about spotting scams GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER.

With regard to autocorrect sometimes errors are obviously down to autocorrect but other times it's clearly an excuse. I've never known it change "he's" to "his" or "could have" to "could of" for example.

per say

Being a fully paid-up pedant, I get seriously irritated by practice/practise, accept/except, and discreet/discrete.
Of course that’s in addition to all the its/it’s, your/you’re, there/they’re/their, who’s/whose, etc.

2hy do people actually use autocorrect when it sounds like it's basically only correcting correct into wrong?😂

To be fair, peoples lack of punctuation bothers me 😉 But I dont moan about it (until now lol). Just read it if you want, and move on.

My eye gets twitchy with the incorrect use of less than/fewer than.
I also had a friend at uni (studying to become an English teacher) who used to constantly write 'your' for almost everything. Eg. 'Your coming over tonight?... Your be here by 7? ... Your be fine...' etc. I can't understand how she got to the stage of studying to become an English teacher seemingly without a basic grasp of words.

So many threads on people's spelling 🤦🏻‍♀️

My eye gets twitchy with the incorrect use of less than/fewer than.
One would thing GOT took care of this particular issue

‘Rediculous’ is true one that really grinds my gears, it’s a really common spelling mistake. You don’t even say it like that FFS. It’s rid-ic-u-lous!!!!

All caps I understand (laziness), same for no caps but it takes a lot of effort to put a capital in front of every word.

I used to think this too but then I brought me a new Samsung. I'm sat here now typing on it.

Sorry, couldn't resist

Anyway... It sometimes decides to autocorrect a cap at the start of every single word. I don't know if there is something I've pressed or of it's just the phone fairies messing with me, but it drives me bloody mad because I have to go back through at the end and change every word. So it would be less effort for me to post something with caps at the start of every word. It also will often changes a plural into a possessive apostrophe, for example "How many Evas do you know?" Is autocorrected to "How many Eva's do you know?".

2hy do people actually use autocorrect when it sounds like it's basically only correcting correct into wrong?

It hadn't even occurred to me that I could stop using it. You have opened my eyes to a great new world.

An archaic meaning of the verb 'to learn' is 'to teach'. 'He learned me to read' or 'He learned me how to read' were acceptable until the early 19th century. Also, the meanings of loan/borrow were not always as clearly delineated in times past. Maybe these usages are preserved in some modern dialects?

I used to get so annoyed by poor spelling but then I had a child who struggles with it. Some people can't help it. Much the same as people who struggle with maths

Where I live, we often use 'ye' in informal speech instead of you (plural). It's sometimes even used in (very) informal writing. I consider this to be a preservation of archaic language, rather than a mistake.

Not a spelling one but I got this in an e-mail today:

"Myself or one of my colleagues will try to call you over the next 24 to 48 hours"

I had a colleague who was stuck on yourself thing. I do think it is to sound smarter and more professional, for which in her case is no need! She is very smart and professional.
I corrected it few times into a "you" and subtly pushed with "I think we should kind of imitate writing style of x and y, they are amazing (they studied it) and it would be great to have similar standard" and she stopped doing it. No drama

One example that really annoys me is: I get payed or I payed x amount.

I adore irregular verbs. I could still name majority even if you woke me up in the middle of the night. How are they taught here to natives? We had a giant list like
Steal - Stole - Stolen
Become - Became - Become
Buy - Bought - Bought
Forgive - Forgave - Forgiven
And so on. And so on.
And we had to memorise them and say all 3 forms when tested.

I don't fuss about normal people's spelling and grammar because as you say for all we know they may have dyslexia or other learning issues or English may not be their first language (and lets be honest the vast majority of people for whom that's the case speak and write English a damn sight better than the natives!)

BUT as an English grad PROFESSIONAL writers poor spag does piss me off! And I'm not talking bloggers etc I'm talking in proper newspapers, advertising for huge companies and books.

Makes me wince so much!