to think that correcting someone's spelling/grammar etc on a thread is actually quite petty and pathetic?

[wannaBe]

Really what does it matter?

wannabee wannaBe

I thnk it is a snotty thing to do. Posting on MN is something people do quickly - especially when in the middle of a fast moving discussion, it's petty to pick up on typos, and worse to point out perceived lack of education or ability. We are not each others teachers except when help or advice is asked for.

And worse when it is done within a disagreement and appears to be putting the other person down to discredit thier argument.

Devil - are you a leeeeeetle (sic) more devil-like than usual today? By any chance?

the spelling and grammar pedants are snippy and rude.it is supposed to be a fast moving discussion board, so mistakes get will be made.genuinely it is more important to get the content/jist of a topic rather than be hung up on the spelling and punctuation, and grammar

i imagine the pedants all slobbering and salivating waiting for a mistake/grammatical error so that they can pounce - and point this out

On Pedants' corner, fine. Between posters who know each other well and are having a good-natured dig, fine. Otherwise, rude (unless the original post is so badly garbled as to be incomprehensible). IMO.

My typing is terrible - but no-one ever picks me up on my typo-ridden bad spelling. I wonder why?

(I'm Blu, btw)

nobody ever does it to me

ditto blu i think they bare too laxy or too scared

I did it once on a Madeleine McCann thread. Someone had been making out that people who didn't agree with whatever this person's view was didn't care as much as they did. I admit it gave me great satisfaction to point out that this person cared so much they hadn't even bothered to spell Madeleine's name right.

Snotty and obnoxious, I know, but God it felt good....

If you have time to do it then go ahead.

All my typing mistakes on here are because of my bad typing skills and always rushing.

Does not bother me when I see people make errors...

oi scottishmummy, I'm a pedant and I agree with the op!
[tongue sticking out]

depends on context - serious thread, poster you don't really know = pathetic. Correcting in a possibly jokey way ie. you wally to someone you 'know' well = fine IMO. Like laughing when sappylamour (that her name now?) wrote sodcream, instead of sudo (unless I am missing something). But, generally, yep, it's pathetic. What a way to get your buzzes, eh?

i wouldnt actually care tbh...i am not so insecure for it to worry me

but then no one sodeso it

(Wannabe - I don't usually approve of people starting off-shoot threads to comment on other posters, either - but can see that the thread in question was NOT one for having an argument on)

Oh, something like 'sodcream' is funny, and it's ok if it's a joke.

OOOoooh, I do. I like a good ol' MN ruck. It's like being a fly on the wall, no one knows you're there

Most of the card-carrying pedants (as in those who hang out in Pedants' corner) never do it that I've seen. I think it's the wannabe pedants who do it (not wannabe as in WannaBe the poster, obviously. Unless she namechanges a lot and has a split personality).

As a matter of interest, WannaBe, how does your screen reader cope with misspellings? Does it just have a stab at something phonetically approximate, or does it spell out words it doesn't recognise, or what?

Well in my defense on that so helpfully linked thread, as if I should bother. rassionally isn't just a typo it's clear poor spelling and so I noted it. I hate how people think it's fine to be lazy over spelling and grammar, especially as parents.

Blu no I wouldn't normally do so either and maybe started this one in a moment of general pissed off-ness .

I do notice no-one ever seems to correct cod's typing - I guess if they did they'd never have time for anything else on mn .

Oooh, now I can't think how to spell it. Rationally? Ah, that'll do.

yes I think it's rude and don't do it outside of pedantic circles or without a sense of self-deprecating

sometimes I sit here biting my tongue hard, sitting on my hands, thinking 'god that's thick' though .... I find the word apauling particularly grating

to be honest though wannabee, your grammar and spelling is so extremely good I always thought you were rather a pedant yourself

'without a sense of self-deprecating humour'

that should be

you see the problem with being a pedant is one invariably farks up in the post being pedantic within .. most infuriating

PortAndLemon the screen reader generally just reads out the word. often if the spelling is completely off then the word won't sound right, but with a word like rassionally/rationally, the word is read exactly the same. It doesn't correct spelling, it reads what I type. If I type my posts out in word, (and I often do so I can read them back to see if what I've written makes sense), the spellcheck will often correct my misspellings, but if I type straight into the message box that obviously doesn't happen.

I make no excuses for my crap spelling, but there's actually a lot of evidence that says that people with visual impairments have worse spelling, and this is to do with the fact that braille has been contracted down into 63 different combinations, so braille readers rarely see words spelled out in full, iyswim? Not using that as an excuse though .

Devil!
It is obvious that any discussion re spelling shuld not cointinue on that particular thread, and although you do feel strongly about spelling (but it may not be laziness - how do you know what lies behind soeone's spelling?) you will have to expect that if you choose to pull people up on it you will risk an unnappreciative response, sometimes.

And as Fio already told you, wannabe is visually impared and uses a 'reader' system,

I do not experience you as a 'snotty' poster in general, far from it - but it did come across that way on that thread, and i would have given the same reposnse to wannabe's question with or without a specific example. So I think people's feelings about it are general and not just about that thread.

There are much worse snipes happening here than odd pedantic comments.