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To think that mn should have a rule that any post that

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saint2shoes · 29/09/2008 10:37

comments on another posters spelling, should be deleted.
what is it with this, who really cares?
makes me so angry

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stealthsquiggle · 29/09/2008 10:44

I am afraid that if you think that you can post judgemental comments and not expect others to then judge you by your (lack of)ability to spell then you are being slightly naive

VictorianSqualor · 29/09/2008 10:44

My first thread, ever, was about people commenting on spelling and grammar.
I got roasted
YANBU

RubyRioja · 29/09/2008 10:45

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themildmannneredjanitor · 29/09/2008 10:46

yabu-bad spelling is cringeworthy and detracts from the meaning of the post.

snowleopard · 29/09/2008 10:49

Well, crap spelling makes some people angry! Though I don't generally comment (except on pedants' threads where they have made a mistake themselves - then you just have to), I don't mind people who do. They are right, after all. The pedantry and bridling at things like text-speak is one of the things I really like about MN.

Sycamoretree · 29/09/2008 10:49

I'm waiting with baited breath for Cod to turn up on this thread!

Sycamoretree · 29/09/2008 10:49

Or is it bated?

snowleopard · 29/09/2008 10:50

It is bated!

TheHedgeWitch · 29/09/2008 10:50

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TheProvincialLady · 29/09/2008 10:51

YABU because it helps the normal and sane amongst us to sort the wheat from the chaff and avoid

harleyd · 29/09/2008 10:51

i think its quite childish to pick on someone for spelling mistakes

snowleopard · 29/09/2008 10:51

The thing is, what really riles pedants is ignorance and people not knowing how to spell. We all know cod probably can spell, so we don't care.

themildmannneredjanitor · 29/09/2008 10:53

cod CAN spell-she can't type. there is a difference.
nobody has a problem with typos.

mumblechum · 29/09/2008 10:55

I don't normally pick up on spelling errors unless the poster is pissing me off with the content of the post. In fact have only once pointed out poor spelling.

VictorianSqualor · 29/09/2008 10:56

It all depends how it's said IMO.

If you're having an argument with someone who can't spell and seems to have found it impossible to get to grips with grammar and you start taking the piss then, IMO, you FAIL.

If you just point it out then fine, but using it as extra ammunition in an argument/discussion unrelated to spelling and/or grammar is low.

SheikYerbouti · 29/09/2008 10:57

u iz bean well unnreezonable, innit?

FabioVicePeeperPlopper · 29/09/2008 10:58

Picking posters up on their grammar NOT ON unless:

a) OP asking pedantry/proof reading question
b) in retaliation for some wanker berating a mner for a misspelling purely because the wanker disagreed with the misspelling mner, and the wanker can't spell themselves.

littlelapin · 29/09/2008 10:58

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FabioVicePeeperPlopper · 29/09/2008 11:00

Agree with VS - it's just grasping at strores.

And I meant to add a to b) on m'last post.

SheikYerbouti · 29/09/2008 11:00

Me too LL

Blu · 29/09/2008 11:00

Objecting to text-speak is one thing, but I often see posts where a comment on spelling or grammar is used to put someone down.I think that is unpleasant and bad-mannered in extremis.

And funnily enough, although I am a terrible typist and my posts are typically full of terrible mistakes, no-one has ever commented. I wonder why?? Time and time again I see sneery comments to posters considered ignorant in some way.

If you don't know how to spell something, you don't know how to spell it. it doesn' invalidate your opinion.

Are only those with grammar school educations allowed to pass judgement on others?

I think it is always shameful to 'show someone up' - and does no credit to your own level of debate.

littlelapin · 29/09/2008 11:00

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FabioVicePeeperPlopper · 29/09/2008 11:00

uncomfatable fab new term

I typed 'restidential home' in ref to old folks home earlier.
I want to live in a restidential home, it sounds relaxing.

SheikYerbouti · 29/09/2008 11:03

Yes, my typing is shit too.

I never get any digs

that's probably because I am like Ro-Land from Grange Hill though.

wannaBe · 29/09/2008 11:07

commenting on spelling is childish.

I once typed a long response on a very emotive thread, only for a poster to pull me up on the misspelling of one word. It totally detracted from the thread and was, IMO completely unnecessary.

There's a time and a place, and more often than not serious threads are not the place.