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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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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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TheArmadillo · 29/09/2008 11:40

It isn't as bad as the wrestling forum that my lodger goes on.

They have banned people for poor spelling and grammar.

I was when he told me.

He did point out that if it was obviously someone who had english as a second language they would give them lessons in spelling and grammar.

The pedants here have nothing on those wrestling fans

I do find it can be a bit rude though - when it is done when the one pointing it out is only doing it to belittle the other poster.

ComeOVeneer · 29/09/2008 11:41

I wonder how many of those who would draw attention to bad grammar on here (obviously spelling is different as that involves reading it) would pull someone up on it when having a discussion in RL? We all tend to be a bit braver/more gun ho when hiding behind the safety of the screen. IMO if you wouldn't in RL then you shouldn't on here.

FabioVicePeeperPlopper · 29/09/2008 11:46

I would never have thought wrestlers would be pedants, they wear far too much lycra.

I have picked people up on grammer and that before and prolly made prat of self.

But is't poor form really.

Henceforth, should anyone pick me up on speelings, I shall say

I'm dyslexic and this is an internet forum not the BB arsing C you prat fuck off

(unless they're being funnY)

and you are all welcome to say the tsame to me.

mabanana · 29/09/2008 11:46

It's tempting though on those 'ordrary skools mite be OK for your thik childron but my 2 yaer old is so brilliunt and gifted that he will be held backwords' posts you sometimes see....

hatwoman · 29/09/2008 11:47

shouldn't that be gung ho? ducks...

FabioVicePeeperPlopper · 29/09/2008 11:48

Good point COV
Though I did feel compelled ot say to someone once, you do know it's could have, don't you?
he said, Oh I don't care.
THen I judged him.
Oh yes.

MsSparkle · 29/09/2008 11:50

I think people forget this is an internet forum and not an English exam! Who cares of someone has poor spelling and grammer? As long as the post is readable then it doesn't matter.

Plus how do you know that person doesn't have reading/writing disabilties? You don't so it's not fair to comment on poor spelling.

If it annoys you then you don't have to point it out in a patronising way like most do on mn.

helpfulornot · 29/09/2008 11:52

YABU.

I karnt taik seeruslee enywun hoo kant spel / youse grammer proply.

lovelygal · 29/09/2008 11:53

My posts are guaranteed to contain spelling mistakes unless I remember to hit the spell check button, which isnt often.

Tough, I say. Critise me all you want but you're not to going to improve my spelling so deal with it.

VictorianSqualor · 29/09/2008 12:00

See, now it would be totally appropriate of me to say

"Grammar not gramme ladies"

but of course that's in context.

ComeOVeneer · 29/09/2008 12:00

Hatwoman, you try typing correctly on a lap top keyboard that ds has removed all the keys of on more than one occasion, has totally lost the "z" key as well as the @/' key which also has lost the little rubber stopper thingy so you have to tap metal, then see if any letters are missing!

ComeOVeneer · 29/09/2008 12:02

I did get rather annoyed a few days ago when someone staarted a thread which, as I recall was quite benign, and the second post was purely correcting grammar and/or spelling and not adding anything to the actual thread. That IMO is extremely rude.

VictorianSqualor · 29/09/2008 12:03

And it would be totally fair game for you to point out my missing 'r'

ComeOVeneer · 29/09/2008 12:04

I did look and snigger, but though I would be contradicting myself if I did point it out!

MsSparkle · 29/09/2008 12:05

I think people just enjoy correcting spelling because it makes them feel superior. I would never correct someone elses because my own spelling isn't perfect!

BouncingTurtle · 29/09/2008 12:08

YANBU, saint2shoes, it is very rude and patronising.

But I admit I find it tempting but restrain myself.

I do look uncomfatable, I feel that way regularly!

Actually I go on another forum, and I am seriously tempted to point out the bad grammar and spelling in the topic titles (it's a netmums-style forum, complete with huns and tickers though more restrained than NM).

But I'm a bit of a newbie on that forum, so thought it might be rather rude, but should I do it anyway? It makes the forum look a bit shit to be honest (which it is compared to the utter wonderfulness that is Mumsnet ).

BouncingTurtle · 29/09/2008 12:14

Agghhhh!! look?? I mean like!

BouncingTurtle · 29/09/2008 12:14

Agghhhh!! look?? I mean like!

BouncingTurtle · 29/09/2008 12:14

Agghhhh!! look?? I mean like!

daftpunk · 29/09/2008 12:14

you know you're not being unreasonable 2shoes...maybe it makes some people on here feel superior to point out spelling mistakes? all it's really doing is making them look a bit pathetic and childish.

RustyBear · 29/09/2008 12:17

I would only do it where it genuinely obscures the meaning or where the post is in pedants' corner, or to people who I think won't mind (but only on a jokey-type thread.) I did tell lulumama how to spell leopard and if she did mind she was far too nice to tell me so!

skidaddle · 29/09/2008 12:18

YANBU I hate it when people do this

haven't read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned dyslexia? Is it reasonable to comment on spelling mistakes when you don't know if the poster is dyslexic?

Litchick · 29/09/2008 12:25

I hate it when people mention it - particularly when it's done for no other reason than to bully and belittle a poster.
I often pull people up on it.
There are members of MN who are not well educated, memnbers who do not speak english as their first language, members who type badly through physical disability, members who have learning problems.
Their opinions are still valid...or do we want to drive them away?

ComeOVeneer · 29/09/2008 12:32

Those who say that they do it because it grates on them (or excuses simlar). Sorry but that just isn't a justification. We all have our streghts and weaknesses, and to be pulled up by another over them is plain rudenss and reeks of a feeling of superiority.

I am pretty good when it comes to cooking, yet I would never dream to comment on someones elses food unless they ask for it. Likewise I am anal about tidyness having things in order etc, and it niggles me when I see a crooked picture, or books all askew, but I don't presume that the way it makes me feel gives me any right to do or say anything about it.

stealthsquiggle · 29/09/2008 12:50

It does grate on me - at least, mis-use of homonyms (their/there/they're, loose/lose, etc) does - typos don't bother me (except my own!)

I never correct it (except occasionally on pedants threads and even then only in revenge for having been corrected).

However, the OP had just started a particularly judgemental thread and it was her OP on that which had provoked a comment about spelling. It amused me because the sentiment of the response was what I had thought but chosen not to post.

I shall now withdraw gracefully as I cannot afford to annoy CoV as I rely entirely on her cake advice

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