to think it is rude to comment on people spelling and grammar

[2shoes]

following on from other thread (as I do not want to hijack)
I think it is rude and bad mannered. yes sometimes if someone is ranting(as said op was) then It can be hard to read. but not impossible.
you wouldn't (I hope) correct someone in rl if they used bad grammar. so why is it deemed ok on here?

cocolepew yes thanks, as it is a sn school in the middle of no where, they had it this afternoon. she looked so pretty and had a lovely time.

Hedgewitch people don't make allowance for sn in rl(as I well know) so doubt they would on here.

can some one just re explain brought and bought for me. my dad is always pulling me up on that

cory it isn't only on that thread.
I came home a couple of weeks ago. ranted on here about a daft bint. expected tea and sympathy, no just got people childishly correcting my spelling and grammar. it happens on here a lot.

Brought is when you've taken something somewhere, bought is when you've purcgased it from a shop.

Think of the 'r'

Bring - brought
Buy- Bought.

Glad she had a good time.

2shoes on Fri 18-Jul-08 18:02:29
cory it isn't only on that thread.
"I came home a couple of weeks ago. ranted on here about a daft bint. expected tea and sympathy, no just got people childishly correcting my spelling and grammar. it happens on here a lot."

Fully agree with you in general principle, it's a cheap way of scoring points. Just don't accept that it applied to that particular thread.

I agree it's rude to comment on spelling and grammar - especially if it's done in a way to make the OP feel stupid.

But I don't think that pointing out when a post is hard to read is impolite.

In real life, if someone were shouting at me, or speaking too quietly or too quickly for me to hear them properly, I would politely tell them.

I think it's similarly acceptable to point out to people when their posts are hard to read for whatever reason - presentation, excessive caps, spelling so bad it's actually impossible to understand what the sense is (which does happen on here).

You can do it in a way that's not offensive - and maybe it will help the OP get a better response next time.

There's nothing like reading a paragraph of densely packed text filled with "!!!!" and "WTF?!?*!!!!" and "UR LIKE so totly OUt of ORDER WTF r u evn on>?" to make you think the OP is a raging nutter - even when they've got a valid point.

and I agree with Cory that the thread you are talking about (where I also posted) is not an example of people point-scoring. 2 people out of maybe 30 responses politely told the OP that it would be helpful if she could break up her paragraphs next time.

Nothing offensive or sneery about that - it was just advice for the future.

YANBU, we are only human and going to make a few spelling mistakes occasionally. and others have their own way of typing their message, even if that means shortening words to save time. i wouldn't say it's lazy, perhaps they are BFing at the time they type?? who knows.
i don't correct people on their spelling as i get the general drift of what they are trying to say. it's too trivial to mention as far as i'm concerned...

Yes I hate when a post reads like an unpunctuated stream of conscious buried in the middle of Ulysses and you just don't know where it starts and where it ends or if the poster has any point to make and if they have they made it yet or maybe they just like the sound of the keyboard tapping or have you missed their point or agree with it or disagree with it or maybe you should re-read the garble and anyway they can't understand why nobody thinks they're right.....

Innit?

But, I'm thinking of another board.. Mners are familiar with the comma and full stop.

I thought that was quite clear LLGE

I really am the worst speller in the world... And as there is no spell check on MN I often post my silly mistakes. BUt I can not help it, I just can not spell so shoot me!!! (my English teacher did)

lardybump - if you'd like a spell-check you should get firefox! Comes with a built-in spell check and you get less viruses and stuff as it's not microsoft.

[I heart Firefox emoticon]

My two daughters went to a nursery with a huge sign outside proclaiming that after a recent examiniation they are now 'OFSTED ACREDITED'. I pointed that out.

Jumping on someone's spelling or grammar in an argument drives me crackers! "I think X, Y, Z..." reply is "yeahbut your spelling is shit hahahahaha" to me, that clearly says that the person has no reply to the issue being debated and is reduced to cheap shots. They have lost the argument and it's very hard to take them seriously after that, because it's just so pathetic.

However. I really hate the fact that spelling and grammar don't matter any more. People are becoming more and more unintelligible and it's a great shame, because we are losing something important. The ability to communicate clearly is vital. When I think how beautiful language is, of all the wonderful written works..well, r u cmmn ovr 2nite cos P sed summit were up. hop 2 c u l8r.. makes me want to cry. Especially since more and more people don't communicate like this because it's quicker, but because they cannot do it any other way. We're regressing to cavemen days. In another few generations we'll be grunting at one another!

So. imo it's rude to use it to be bitchy, but I wish to god people made better use of the wonders of language!

Oh will have to look into that TYV... thanks.

theyoungvisitor good point, hadn't thought of it that way.
I wasn't just talking about one thread. as I pointed out it happens often.

2 shoes I definitely agree it does sometimes happen as a point-scoring exercise - and that it's often done rudely and sneeringly and is a completely unfair way of putting down a poster. I just didn't think that was the case on that particular thread - but in general I agree with you and I agree it's shitty.

Perhaps we should have a school-marm emoticon

2shoes - I really hate it when people correct spelling and grammar on here.

Really.

But the OP that you are talking about was huge, unpunctuated and very difficult to read.

The kind of OP that when I click on it, I immediately click out again because I'm not wasting my time trying to actually read it. In this instance, I caught a glimpse of what some of the other posters were saying and it piqued my curiosity so I persevered.

I felt it only fair to mention to her (politely I hope) that putting the odd line between paragraphs makes a large post easier to read.

Which it does.

I really don't think I was out of order in the circumstances.

i suppose if it's done once and done nicely then all you're saying is 'if you break up your paras and stop 'shouting' you'll probably get more responses'.

but as it happens, i'm not against learning. if someone wants to correct me on a point of grammar or somesuch i'm interested. although no one's going to persuade me to cap up.

Poor spelling and syntax doesn't bother me on MN. However, I skip anything written in a text-speak stream-of-consciousness, so well parodied by LLGE. The poster can't be bothered to make themselves clear; I can't be bothered to decode it. I think a lot of MNers must feel the same way if you look to see how often their posts are ignored.

what thread was this?