Ready for backlash with this one...

[Netflixandaps]

AIBU to expect on dating sites for men around my age group 40-50 to be able to write a sentence like an adult rather than it being like I am communicating with a 12 year old on Snapchat..... They still write 'u', 'wot', '2', 'ru', 'ere', 'b', 'cud' (I could go on)... My absolute favourite is the question 'wot u up 2'.. Surely to goodness I'm not expecting too much?

You’re fishing in the wrong pool, that’s terrifying

Didn't spot that!

Well I wouldn't employ you.

If a CV came to me with such a basic spelling error, I'd discard it.

And I wouldn't want my organisation represented by someone who looks porky educated, without basic literacy/spelling ...it doesn't look professional.

That's a tangent from the dating scene of course, but the lack of basic adult skill is also a turn off.

*poorly, not porky 😂

I actually find people who boast about having a bachelor's degree but can't spell the word bachelor more terrifying.

Doesn't say much about our universities.

@SavoirFlair nobody has failed to take into account dyslexia/additional learning needs. We have all differentiated between lazy/illiterate spelling and grammar to genuine handicaps (for want of a better word) in language.

I just joined POF on Sunday having separated from my husband last Christmas. I'm really struggling to give time to people who don't bother writing out a full message sentence.

Plus the outright icky ones are horrible. One of the first messages I got was "even your son would think you were a MILF"

Just no. Instant delete.

even your son would think you were a MILF

Wtaf.

@Flyinggeesei234 oh, that would rule me out!!😂😂

*This post is hilarious because it shows the self delusion a lot of women in the UK have ....

There’s so much snobbery on this forum from a group of people chasing 20% of the male population, but from a starting position of their own that is way, way out of their lane. Most in the UK are averagely educated, physically average, spell “lose” incorrectly*

Classic mgtow, red pill "Hypergamy! Hypergamy! claiming misogyny.

Averagely educated doesn't mean can't spell or know the different spelling between similar words.

I doubt 80 pc of the UK population can't spell decently or know the difference between similar words.

Anyway this thread started, not even being about spelling but about lazy, barely legible colloquial text speak.

And I think that's a reflection of the men's attitude towards dating and dating sites as to anything else.

It's also worth pointing out that even if only 20 pc of the UK make population is well educated and had excellent literacy (which seems on the low side) the women to whom that matters are likely to be in the sane demographic of being well educated and very literate ..... So they're not "not in their lane" and they're not "snobby". They just looking for partner from a similar educational etc background and on their wavelength. Who they can communicate with without cringing. They're not looking for something they're not - if they were v poorly educated and had poor literacy themselves they probably wouldn't even notice it.