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

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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.

That might be because most other forums have an edit facility for your own posts! I wish we had it on here.

My spelling can be terrible at times, especially after Wine O'Clock

Typos happen, especially I find if using a mobile device where the screen size can make it harder to quickly spot errors.

Layout I find is more of a pain than spellings/typos. When someone types a long post, such as several paragraphs but does not use the Enter Key to create New Lines, the big block of text can be hard to read.

For those of you using Screen Readers... how do you find the screen reader responds to spelling mistakes?

I would guess that sometimes the word may be sounded such that a similar meaning is conveyed, whereas at other times it makes no sense at all. Is that the case?

I expect big blocks of text are not such an issue for those with screen readers, though the digital voice would still not pause in the way I expect it does when reading paragraphs. Is that the case?

I pick at people's spelling sometimes, it's a bad habit

I find poor spelling really, really irritating

I correct people IRL too, if I blurt it out without considering it first

several times on MN though I have done it and then left a big glaring typo in my post, which serves me right

Nah Fellatio - Its cos everyone on here are scared of being told off by the pedantic twats...

I do find text speak incredibly irritating and hard to understand though. Perhaps it's my age. (She says feeling like an old fogey at 29.)

arsey to squawk about spelling.if you get the jist leave it be.its the clenchie well actually its their not there posts.like as if anyone really cares.and those that do care are too preoccupied by minutiae to be worth bothering about

It's very rude and speaks volumes about the person doing the correcting. I tend to go right off people who correct spellings (unless it's done as a fit and proper put down to a troll or total arse).
And yes, the persistent self-correction followed by a is a right pisser too - OK darling we know you're not a thicky and it was a genuine typo.

The thing I find annoying is people see it as an easy jibe to say "you've spelt X wrong" instead of just shutting up and ignoring the thread.

I saw this the other day, it was a fairly inflammatory thread and someone came along and just had a go about their spelling in a smug twatty way.

IMO it makes them look stupid not the OP.

yes the self editing i meant no not not no one cares and the wee faces are clogging the thread.leave it be

My typing is awful, I use two fingers and often make mistakes which then look like spelling mistakes.

I just thought most folk are typing their post in a busy enviroment - dc or cats crossing the keyboard or whatever, why would anyone correct someone's post?

But it's not the worst, the worst I think is when there is a general tut, tut, you are so wrong about whatever you have just gone to the trouble of posting.

But who cares, it's all just a bit of distraction from RL.

Someone on a post about using the c-word in titles said 'swearing is fun so we're going to do it'. Well I say picking up on spelling and grammar errors is a lot more fun. Very few posters thought it was wrong/rude/offensive to swear in posts but so many people seem to think it's not on to error-spot.
At least the pedants amongst us have a varied vocabulary to choose from and don't have to rely on the lazy-arses' option of c-ing or f-ing everything.

er... so to punish the people who swear, you are spiteful towards people who spell poorly.
OK I think that is twatty. I shall go shout randomly at someone in the street.
That'll make things even.

It is justice for cunting dyslexics but no one else

"And yes, the persistent self-correction followed by a is a right pisser too - OK darling we know you're not a thicky and it was a genuine typo. "

I do that all the time - mostly because I don't want some pedant coming along and point scoring by pointing out my typos. However perhaps I will courageously leave my typos in future - unabashed and 'out there', just daring someone to pick me up on them!

Agree pag.

Swearing in an addult environment where it has been the accepted norm for a decade = fibne

Spite = horrid

I have a freakishly good vocabulary

swear words definitely have their place

adult

yes we got the jist no corrections required.

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

I've seen quite a few writing that "it's only a forum" and how they consider it "rude" but also, someone wrote:

"It makes me think a little less of people sometimes, too [shame], although I know it shouldn't."

Now, on the one hand, that could have been a comment saying that the writer thinks a bit less of someone who posts to correct a mistake, but I suspect the actual belief was (like me), that seeing errors can give one that "I don't give a shit" impression of the writer (sorry, not suggesting either of us might actually use that phrase... not something I'd generally write/think).

Yes, people are typing fast, and dealing with DC and stray cats walking across the keyboard, but one hopes everyone takes a bit of care before clicking the "post message" button.

Apparently some people feel I write far too much, and I'm guilty of typos as much as the next, but as my Mum would have put it, some people are brought up and some are dragged up, and seeing awful sentence construction, slang, and trivial errors, sometimes makes me think the latter.

I may not have been great with English at school, and much prefer science of languages, but try to take a pride in making a post readable. I'd love an edit facility for the times when something slips past...

Oh, and for someone who wrote about corrections not being appropriate unless asked for, well there are relatively few posts asking for constructive criticism, but even if someone were to send a private message, it could be taken badly, as some form of bullying... so much as I might prefer to send a private message it is unlikely to be considered helpful by some (most?)

I have an asbestos suit, so if my comment offends, I may well get a verbal assault, but it is unlikely to dent my feelings sufficient to stop me making constructive comments in other threads.

can I just say, it was me this was started about and all I said was "here here" instead of "hear hear". I do not use slang and usually try my best to get it right

I treat mumsnet as if I am amongst delightful aquaintances.
I am a nice person and i try to post a mix of jokes, support and general chit chat.

I do give a shit about what I say but I have grown to accept that my spelling is not my best feature.
I could agonise and craft and worry about my typos but 'i don't give a shit' because the majority of people don't care as much about how I express myself as they do about that which I am trying to express.

I would post less and MN would be stressful for me if I agonised about the possibility of offending someone who apparently cares so little about me that the fact that I received a poor education in difficult circumstances still makes me less than them.
And doesn't care that my homne circumstances can be difficult and that mumsnet is a carefree escape at times. It is relaxing to feel welcomed and accepted broadly ( obviously not universally)

To have my spelling corrected is humiliating for me as I suspect it would be for many people.
Or rather it would be if I allowed myself to care about the type of person who would do that.

That is what I mean by I don't give a shit.
I care about what I write. I give greatthought to what I write and care about the feelings of the people to whom I feel I am speaking.
But random people who think that my crap education makes me slovenly I struggle to care about at all

if post was understandable minor spelling mistake then no biggie.havent read the post but here here instead of hear hear is a minor error

"science of languages" should have been "science to languages" or "science over languages" so I cannot imagine how that nonsense got through!

NetworkGuy, it's nice that you take pride in your posts, but many others are just interested in expressing themselves and don't have any interest in language and how it should be written down.

What you see as constructive instruction, others may see as a superiority they were forced to endure as a child at school.

As Sancti said, were all adults on here, so to be corrected as though you were a child again may be a tad irritating to some?

i agree with the op entirely. I think it means you are either up your own arse so much you can't be bothered giving advice OR it is used as some bloody poor excuse for a counter attack in an argument.

the only time it pisses me off is when the post you are reading is completely illegible or it is one long huge paragraph which makes it difficult to read.

and i have to say on occasion, with the latter - i have taken it, broken it down into paragraphs and re-posted it BECAUSE there was a problem in there that needed an answer.

i think its a case of small things ...small minds in MOST circumstances.

its recreational forum not work.doesnt have to be bang on