To think that correcting someone's spelling on a thread is just bloody rude!

[utterMadness]

And that it doesn't make you look big or clever, but like a smug pedantic twat.

Have just seen someone be pulled up on spelling on another thread who is dislexic.

People are unable to spell/write gramatically correct for various reasons.

Just because you can, doesn't make you better than them.

My spelling and grammar are pretty top-notch (am always the one in the office who is asked how to spell words). However I would not dream of offering a correct spelling unsolicited - unless of course the poster was very twattish. Rather like the man banging on yesterday about older parents being better blah, blah blah - but couldn't spell Winnie the Pooh correctly.

I am regularly shocked at the atrocious English of some junior journalists on national newspapers and do not hesitate to point their errors out ! This normally results in the offending piece being very quickly edited. I don't think they can employ proof readers any more. That would be my dream job (pedant alert)

i like doing it in pedants' corner and when someone is being an arse.

By the same token, i hate reading official documents or work reports that are badly written (in terms f spelling, grammar and punctuation).
on a board like this it doesn't matte rso much because we're all trying to get our point across and we do type quickly without having time or a chance to go back and correct our errors. (indeed, if we can see them)

my thoughts exactly, Nickel. Even worse when it comes from a government dept.

I think it is only ever relevent when someone has been posturing about how smart they are.

I tend to think that when someone points out spelling errors when they are in the middle of an argument it suggests they have run out of decent, coherent points to make.

I remember having a terrible fight with the coach of a rugby team my DH was playing against. I became really stupidly angry but couldn't articulate my anger. Instead I made a smart arse comment about his hat. Pathetic really.
People correcting spellings always reminds me of that.

I suspectthat occasionally people are trying to be helpful but correcting someone on a public forum is right up there with shouting across a crowded party to tell your mate that her skirt is tucked in her knickers.
Just a bit wanky really

My spelling and grammar are terrible. But I don't really give a shit

I agree, I think it is the unsolicited nature of the 'advice' that gets handed out on here sometimes that can offend. I don't see anything wrong with being a bit of a pedant (or a raving one as I am) as there is nothing wrong with attention to detail and wanting to use things/see things written the way they should be.

However as someone else said, to pull someone up on their spelling on here is a little like doing so in conversation in real life...not really 'the done thing'.

Its very rude ... tis only a forum who gives a toss ..[thank goodness for firefox spell checker]

I'm another one who wouldn't correct spelling on here, but yes, I would judge from afar. Can't help it. Bad spelling, grammar and punctuation really bug me.

I'm a teacher though, so...

I'm a terrible pedant about spelling and grammar. It has always come very easily to me, and whilst I understand that some people cannot spell to save their lives due to some degree of dyslexia or processing problem, and I (grudgingly) admit that good grammar can be a tricky bugger to master (and local bad habits and dialects don't help) I find it incomprehensible that otherwise perfectly literate people cannot grasp the most fundamental rules of punctuation. Surely once it's been explained to you how, why and where apostrophes are applied, the logic is obvious? The answer can be seen by examining the context of the sentence, every time. S'not hard!

Anyway, I have come to accept over the years that we all have different strengths and indeed weaknesses, and God knows, I'm rubbish at many things that come naturally to others!

One of my sons is a bit dyslexic but he is bright and talented at many things.

Its a message board...not an english exam or a job application

YANBU. It's rude. Notice and be irritated and judge, whatever, but don't mention. Why hurt someone?

YANBU.

It is, of course, very rude and often used on MN as a way of trying to belittle the poster or to show superiority over them. TBH when used on MN it is often used as a subtle form of bullying IMO.

There are of course exeptions to this, but over the past few years this type of thing has become much more obvious on MN.

Fellatio, I'm really sorry to point this out but in view of your last post I don't think you'll mind: shouldn't s'not fair be 's not fair?

< feels all's right with the world again >

< hopes no one hates her now >

It makes my toes curl

It's sooooooo snooty

If you don't correct people they will always be wrong.

It says more about the person doing the correcting imo

Bugger. I knew I'd do it. Just knew it.

I must of proof red that ten times. I done a wrongun. I chequed it for it's mistake's, but you was rite to tell me innit. I must be loosing my touch. Fair cop, Our Lady. Nuff respec.

I agree i find it patronising and when i read someone doing it to another poster it also makes my toes curl, my spelling is often crapola as i type to fast or simply cant be arsed to go back through re typing it . If you cant understand what the poster has wriotten fair enough but other than that i just wouldnt do it. I have just re read my post ad can see spelling errors which i am now deliberatly going to leave in to annoy anyone who is annoyed by it

Curse you!

Sometimes when your brain is working really fast you make silly mistakes like your or instead of you're, or getting ie and ei the wrong way around. It doesn't always mean you don't know how to do it - just that you get clumsy with speed. I spend a ridulous amount of time editing my posts and still loads slip through. I read my own posts back and sometimes, because what I know is nothing more than a typo can sometimes look like a classic error, and my pride can't take it!

I especially enjoy it when someone corrects someone else's "grammer"(sic).

It is the simple things in life...

I love it here in Pedants' Paradise. I have noticed a lot more self-correction in posts recently. Someone will post, then re-post with the correct spelling/punctuation and an embarrassed smiley. Obviously all these pedantic posts are having an uplifting effect on everyone's grammar skills.
In my local market I saw a fish stall advertising 'Guilt-Head Bream'...makes a change from greengrocers' apostrophes.

I can sometimes make loads of typos on MN. If I am tired or had a drink I make more than normal, sometimes it is just because I am typing fast and thinking fast, and I never think to proof read either. I can spell perfectl well. i can also use proper punctuation and grammar. However, MN is an informal form of communication. I don't feel the need to have to reread MN posts every time, and certainly don't need anyone picking me up on spelling and typing errors either thanks!

I can pretty much reading anything on here anyway (if in English, regardless of dodgy spelling or strange typos). I put it down to working with little children just learning to spell and having worked closely with a couple of severely dyslexic teenagers. So, I never find spelling errors an issue on the whole and can still make the posts make sense.

I think the self-correction does my head in more than anything on here - I've never seen it on any other forums.

Its bloody obvious what a person meant to type generally, but to then go and correct it adding a irritates the bloody hell out of me.

We all make mistakes!