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.

I agree too. What does it matter if there are spelling mistakes?

I have a friend who corrects my grammar and I feel so humiliated every time she does it. Dh thinks it's funny, but he's a pedant too. I find it quite rude actually.

It's gist

if folk get jist and can read it and understand enough to contribute, subsequent correction is arsey.i think dont hold yer breath waiting for corrections.i wont be doing any wee blushey faces about my spelling.else id be posting a great many of them

no YANBU op it is one of the reasons why I would not always reccommend MN to people. I have used internet forums for 16 years and the only other place I have encountered this is in the very early days in msn.

I agree with Hulababy it "is" often used as a subtle form of bullying. I would go as far as to say that it is passive agressive bullying at times.

I write in my second language and I am dyslexic. I struggle HUGELY with grammar in English I have tried but I really cant get it, there is not sense in it imo (this is NOT a invive to people to try to explain it to me)

To the poster (forgot your name sorry) whom says her dh and son doesn't mind great I dont mind if my dh corrects me. I DO mind if a stranger does it. I find it rude I find it incredibilly rude, and ultimatly it doesn't teach me anything. As someone else said a dyslexic person can't always see that there is a problem. I at times will look at a sentence over and over I know that there is a spelling mistake but I am unable to see it.

Spell checkers only does so much they for example wouldn't correct hear to here. For me it has 100% taken out a huge part of enjoyment that I get from this site.

I am sat here writing this on high alert worried I am getting my spelling and grammar wrong, and to me that is wrong I shouldn't need to feel that way but I do.

To those of you whom have said if the person is unresonable or deserves it then you feel it is fine. Well I disagre I do not belive it is ok to ever belittle someone, and whom decides that the person is unresonable? It is all subjective.

yanbu
it is imo just a sign of people being knobs.

Rude to do it directly but acceptable to discuss general spelling/grammatical errors in a thread specifically started for the purpose.

There are few among us who have not made such mistakes, even those of us who pride ourselves on good grammar and spelling.

I can't ever honestly remember seeing a gratuitous grammatical correction to someone else's post. But I have seen plenty of name-calling, insults and put-downs, some of which were probably very hurtful for the recipient.
Better to be a pedant than a bully.

many spelling pedants are passive aggressive bullies.the insidious and grating well actually its...

is bitty bullying to purposefully pull up someone for minor indiscretion on discussion forum

have you really never seen it oldbutgold?

I have seen 'well if you want to tell everyone else how to behave you may want to learn to spell first..' type comments often.

I am not sure the choice is pedant or bully.

But there are also some lovely old gimmers who tut at rubbish grammar whilst sipping their cocoa and whining about the weather and how poorly behaved these youths of today can be

Ooh.

I fancy some cocoa.

I've seen it Pag. It's as though making a spelling mistake disqualifies you from having a valid opinion!

I think I might be one of those gimmers though.

I SAID, ISN'T IT COLD...YES. ABOUT HALF PAST FOUR ...

@pag.

THANK YOU DEAR.

Now where are my teeth- I fancy a ginger nut with that cocoa.........

I dislike spelling mistakes; I don't want to be SpellZilla-ish, but seeing errors pains me in a minor way - my stomach contracts.

However, I find that I often make them because I'm typing fast, or dd has suddenly called to me. I can take ages posting because I'm reading through and checking my spelling.

I tend to stick to the pedants' thread when I want to get it out of my system.

Oh, and MN is entirely responsible for my errors over they're, their, there etc. I'd never got them wrong before I came on here. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT; damn you MN, damn you.

Oh I do feel for you Jux that spelling errors make your stomach contract, bless!

Read Lonnie's post again and take a big slice of humble pie.

maybe read a blog sometime,feel stomach somersault. can honestly say i have had no physical twang about anyone spelling mistakes

I think you mean dyslexic don't you?

It kan mayk it a bit haad too reed if awl v spellllllllllllllling is up v spowt. righting is abowt communkneecaysion arfta awl. If wot uuuuv rittin dozunt mayk sens ore is tooo haard two reid peepoll wil just ignoor u.

trying too hard to prove daft point

It's rude. And actually, I don't think it makes a difference whether the poster is dyslexic or just bad at spelling, it's still really bad form to point it out. I wouldn't correct someone's pronunciation in conversation. Just inappropriate.

TiggyD - I think I am missing your point? (or perhaps I 'got' the point you are making?) - anuyway, instantly knew what your were saying in that post...errr...it wasn't hard to understand...

"I don't think it makes a difference whether the poster is dyslexic or just bad at spelling"

You see, there I disagree with you. It is infinitely worse if the poster is dyslexic.

Why? From a rudeness point of view?

is tiggy talkin geordie.or just pissing about to try prove her point