To be increasingly annoyed about the amount of MN's who feel it is OK to correct one's spelling and grammar

[whocaresaboutyourintellect]

I am getting really fed up of it.

Someone will post a topic and then you get some "up you own backside" MN'er who takes it upon themselves to correct all of the grammar and spelling in said post.

This happens in particular in threads of a contraversial nature as a means of embarrasing the OP. It is ridiculous.

This is a talk forum, not an English exam so to all those MN'ers........get a life!!!!

(Sorry - lost a previous post there somewhere...)

I think it's silly to pretend that correct spelling and grammar don't matter.

Communication is SO important for so many aspects of life that it's worth doing it properly.

OOoooh are exclamation marks common?

Now to be fair, some of us [me] may have had a less than ideal education but still have usefull contributions to make. It's just your eyes/eye's/eyes' will water when you read the post. I can only apologise and blame myself and an 80's education, and brain melt due to the amount of babies in my house.

MNs plural doesn't require an apostrophe.

tutut.

And of course it should be the 'number' of MNs, not the 'amount'.

It is one of the things that I love about MN, no txtspk, the use of paragraphs and punctuation. The fact that there are not several exclamation marks at the end of each sentence.

I often make mistakes as I cannot be bothered to preview but noone has ever called me up on it.

As Terry Pratchett said, "Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of someone who wears their underwear on their head. "

Have a look here

I only correct if poster is being annoying.

I don't think poor spelling = ignorance.

Martianbishop openly admitted to being a crap speller and she was anything but ignorant.

The loose for lose thing does get on my tits.

I could tell before I read the thread that the OP would be picked apart for mistakes.

I love your talk name OP

Deep fried shoulder chip anyone?

I know.

I belong here

Please let me stay?

I'll yank the exclamation key off the keyboard, I promise.

oh dear, I like lots of exclamation marks

orangehead, I haven't seen any posts from you apart from on here and there isn't anything wrong with them here.

I think in general people can tell the difference between typos due to dyslexia and real spelling mistakes; grammatical errors (such as the grocer's apostrophe that rocks up in all sorts of wrong places) isn't a dyslexia issue.

For instnace I frequently get letters the wrong way round when I type fast but have never been pulled up for it - or said anythign to anyone else about it either. [demo]

One of the very reasons I left AnotherParentingForum and came here, to my spiritual home, was because the posters here could spell.
Please don't tell me we're going to dumb down?
If I ever make a spelling or grammar mistake, please tell me, I don't want to stay ignorant all my life...

where is OP?

come on we won't bite

I mis-corrected her!

And nobody noticed!

Of course it is one's, not ones. I am tired and emotional.

Is this a wind-up?

fed up of
MN'er
takes it upon themselves
contraversial
embarrasin
MN'ers
amount

???

Am feeling inadequate now

My SIL sent me a letter last year and it was full of text speak and !!!! and the odd LOL thrown in.

It made me want to bang my head against the wall.

When I see a post with lots of !!! and a lol at the end of every sentence, I assume it was written by a teenager. Sorry.

We all did but were too embarrassed to tell you

Bucharest - me too! We must fight any attempts to dumb down. It should be part of the MN 'promise'...

"I promise that I will do my best
To do my duty to Mumsnet
To serve the forum
And to help other people
To use good grammar and spelling"

I write for my living and am a natural pedant but even I make mistakes on here sometimes - usually when I'm knackered and posting in a hurry.

DO think educational outreach is valid, though. MN is fighting a losing battle against declining standards!

Sometimes wonder whether if we were using numbers people would let mistakes pass. Or not. (Although my vague grasp of computing suggests we are actually using numbers, it's just the computers do something jolly clever to turn them into text and layout and images.)

Well, we do have certain standards here on MN...

Seriously though, the only person who has ever corrected my posts on MN is me; it's only after hitting the post button that I see the typos.
People only usually correct the spelling/grammar of others if the thread is about spelling/grammar (see above) or if the poster is having a go at the intelligence of others. Or otherwise setting themselves up for a fall.

Thanks Thumbwitch, tbh I am rubbish at the apostrophe thing too. Not sure if that a dyslexic thing or because I just ended up not paying much attention in english class after struggling and being made to feel like I was thick for so long.

dollius - I noticed but I didn't think it would be appropriate

I always have a titter when people correct themselves. Is that allowed OP?