The worst spelling mistake ever

[mymadpuppy]

Someone had wrote to a friend on facebook and couldn't spell "I".....but rather "eye" instead.
Example....."Eye went to the shop"

Now I don't normally care how people spell things, and I know it's none of my business but aibu to declare this the worst spelling mistake ever? It wasn't a typo either because "eye" instead of "I" is constantly used by this person.

I get confused this way sometimes and am dyslexic. Could that be the reason?

I would guess this person is dyslexic. It's a shame that one of his/her friends hasn't discretely told them, but really as long as people can communicate, that's all that matters.
Lots of people make spelling and grammar mistakes.
For example in your OP, "someone had wrote" should be "someone had written". It's the Past Perfect tense. The Past Simple tense is "Someone wrote" but we understand you perfectly.
I would hate someone to go through my posts on MN. 😂 Riddled with typos and poor punctuation.

Diana, I don't think I have terrible grammar, and I am rather good at spelling, but I have been pulled up several times on here for it, every time totally irrelevant to what I've actually written. Some people just like to be a dick!

Pubic for public is the worst typo / spelling mistake ever. And even running spell check won't save you.

Maybe your Facebook person used to be in De La Soul?

Clearly you've never typo'd "kind regards" as "kind retards" when emailing a disability charity to enquire about hiring their hydro pool

Are you sure that isn't a regional 'cool' variant? I've noticed where I am lots of people of social media use mi for my. Not really sure why, it's not as if it's shorter.

In a death column once in the local paper a dearly departed loved one was "residing in the safe arse of Jesus". I'm sure whoever typed that up got into a lot of trouble.

A few years ago, I was marking essays on theories of criminal punishment. One student talked about ‘penile’ institutions all through her essay.

I now teach infants. I still get a childish urge to snigger at the standard misspelling of ‘come’.

@espressoExpresso I can't beat that!

I did once email my professor Brian and called him Brain. He loved it.

And yet..... you used the word "wrote", when it should have been "written"

"had wrote, OP 🤔?

Your own OP should read either "someone wrote" or "someone had written" to the friend. "Had wrote" is incorrect.

I hear what you say about eye instead of I though.

I once received some information telling me that the person had spent their childhood in Barbados when it should have read Barnados. It was really very pertinent to the work.

I once wrote in an email to a urologist 'I apologise for any incontinence this may have caused'

I remember once there was an argument on a forum I used years ago, with someone telling another poster she was obviously bone idle. Unfortunately he’d spelled it ‘idol’, as in ‘Pop Idol’. I just kept picturing nervous tibias and fibulas in an audition room begging Simon Cowell to be allowed to try a second song.

Are you sure it's not an affectation rather than a mistake?

In-joke perhaps?

@mymadpuppy

Someone had wrote to a friend on facebook and couldn't spell "I".....but rather "eye" instead. Example....."Eye went to the shop"

Now I don't normally care how people spell things, and I know it's none of my business but aibu to declare this the worst spelling mistake ever? It wasn't a typo either because "eye" instead of "I" is constantly used by this person.

Love that when you’re criticising someone else there’s a glaring mistake in your op.

Someone I know always writes the smorning instead of this morning. She must've seen it written elsewhere in her life to realise??

In adeath column once in the local paper a dearly departed loved one was "residing in the safe arse of Jesus". I'm sure whoever typed that up got into a lot of trouble

🤣🤣🤣

I rather like that one.

I couldnt care less how people spell so long as i understand whats being said...

It is actually a very odd spelling mistake which I doubt has anything to do with dyslexia. Everyone would have learned to spell I, and have used it several times long before they ever learned to spell 'eye' and used it. They would also have read it way more times - isn't it one of the 12 most commonly used words? It's not so much the worst spelling mistake but certainly the most bizarre. I'm tending to agree with the poster who thought it was deliberate.

@DianaT1969 - while we’re at it you mean discreetly- as in subtly, not discretely which means something entirely different.

I once wrote that about my ‘Master of Arse’ as a typo on a CV once.

Luckily I caught it before I sent it out but it did amuse me!

(Might have got me some better job offers you never know 😉)

I saw Christmas "reefs" advertised on fb. They were lovely actually, felt really bad no one had told her they were wreaths! Felt too awkward to do it myself though.

That isn't the worst spelling mistake ever. Not by a long, long way.

Just one awful example out of many today during the course of my work.

Sityashun.