There is no such word as "eachother"...

[niadainud]

...or "inbetween", "alot", "ofcourse", "infront" or "thankyou" (or "ect").

I'm probably BVU and I realise this is a forum not a dissertation, that some people are dyslexic and others didn't have the benefit of a good education, that language evolves and that "today" used to be two words and that this isn't Pedants' Corner.

But it's very annoying nonetheless (which is a word).

I see that quite often and assumed it was simply fat fingers. It never occurred to me that it could be autocorrect conspiring against the phone owner!

Why are you repeatedly asking the same, question @ppoliticalintrigue? It has been answered.

Picking on people spelling and grammar puts people off seeking help and support and is an attempt to claim a superiority based on education and issues of diversity and others SEND. So MN is then only for well educated, first language, English, NT and people with physical news (auto correct from phones on my phone) that don't randomly auto correct as the door bell goes.

Oh shit I missed a 's on people's I will be forever condensed (condemned) in the eyes of the op and must hand back my degree

You might enjoy this Hyperbole and a Half comic about the illustrious Alot OP. It comes to my mind often while reading Mumsnet threads!

I find spelling errors annoying as well @niadainud but as you've seen here, you're actually not allowed to voice that here.

Picking on people spelling and grammar puts people off seeking help if they are never told then why would they seek help? That makes no sense.

I’d put a £ to a penny that the people who use ‘would of’ probably aren't dyslexic or, if they are, their dyslexia is not responsible for that particular SPAG no-no.

People can spell and write however they wish, but there’s a reason educated folks get better outcomes in their dealings with professionals. Being articulate means one is less likely to be fobbed off. Most of us on seeing ‘would of’ would make a value judgement. It’s just life. Whether we admit that out loud is another matter.

edited: the would ofs auto corrected to would haves 🤣

@jannier
You say 'picking on'. I say 'correcting'. Which of us is right?
(Hint: if it's you, education is no more than bullying).

I agree with you, OP.

It also irritates the fuck out of me that my autocorrect comes up with "eachother" every time and wants to insert it. I have to be very careful and insistent that it doesn't.

I understand your analogy about dissertations and the forums here. I'm not going to nitpick.

Picking on people's threads because you can is not education you haven't been appointed as MN educator your a self appointed underminer of confidence and deflecting answer to the question ....this thread excepted.

You see it on threads all the time. Someone clearly asking for help, makes a spelling mistake. And some fucker just replying:

*correction

I mean, Jesus. That's not normal behaviour. I think spelling correctly is the least of their problems. But some bastard always does it. It can only mean a power trip for that individual.

I completely agree that that's inappropriate, unnecessary and rather mean.

perhaps if you didn’t say you find it “very annoying” OP

then you suggesting you are trying to help people by pointing out errors may have a touch more believability about it

@jannier

Picking on people's threads because you can is not education you haven't been appointed as MN educator your a self appointed underminer of confidence and deflecting answer to the question ....this thread excepted.

*you're
I didn't claim to be appointed as anything. I pointed out that you are characterising correcting mistakes as "picking on", "undermin[ing] confidence" and I disagree.

Blustering with lots of emotion isn't a response, it's a defence.

Also, I don't do it on other threads, so you are factually incorrect.

Do carry on.

Every day is surely an adjective followed by a noun?

I've seen none the less. And abit seems to be creeping in.

Alot is the worst. I mean, where do they GET it from? Do they say ahugeamount or aweebit or ashitload? How can you read anything, ever, and not NOTICE that alot isn't a thing? And how do they get through 13 years or whatever of school without anyone correcting it? Bizarre.

Okay, but do you write “alright”? Because when I was a child we had it drummed into us “all right, already; all right, already; all right, already”. We had to write it out over and over so we learned that “all right” was two words, and “already” was one.

Now “alright” is in the dictionary. My youth was wasted…

I really, really think “eachother” ought to be a word - and I bet it will be. It’s a good word! It looks really good as one word…

@niadainud you just need to accept that it was considered bad form by MN's founders to critique people's spelling and grammar. Because it discourages posters who perhaps do not have double firsts in English language and literature from asking for help. There's nothing worse than threads were someone is writing about their horrendous experience of DV, and some bell end comes along to inform them on how to use an apostrophe correctly, or to educate them on whatever linguistic infraction they consider more important than the substance of that person's op.

It's not complicated to understand.

@niadainud it is an auto correct pita on an iPhone. It does all sorts of weird things. Corrects things that are perfectly fine to the most ridiculous nonsense!

I turned auto correct off, but that's equally annoying. Might try it again this week though 🙇🏻‍♀️

as I've got a bit older, my fingers have got a bit fatter & sometimes miss the letter I want!! 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

I could perfectly read what you have written. If the point of writing is to convey information, or make a point, then no it doesn't matter.