PEDANTS - Are typing errors more forgivable than spelling or grammar errors?

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Just wondered.

I care about it all.

I mind if I make a typo (I don't lose sleep over it, but it irks me mildly).

I almost never make a spelling mistake - I'd say 99.9% of stuff I post is spelt correctly.

Grammar...mine's good, but I write as I speak, usually.

And text speak is just horrible. Why use it when you have a whole keyboard at your disposal?! It's not actually even quicker when texting if you use predictive text!

Having said that, I would never leap on someone (apart from somebody I know to be a fellow pedant ) for misspelling something. And if a post is in text speak, I just don't bother reading it - I can't be arsed. Same goes for "unparagraphed" posts - like wading through treacle, those!

Ooh I love a typo, me.

typro = lazyness
grammar = poor edumication

ok, ok i'm so busted!

typro = lazyness
grammar = poor edumication

ok, ok i'm so busted!

Don't worry, Custy - I already had you down as highly edumicated.

So what about posting without words?
I am very guilty of that

None of it bothers me ( probably because I make lots of mistakes, though mostly typos) but I HATE HATE HATE when people post very long posts without paragraphs or line breaks.

Sorry just had to get that off my chest.

pmsl californifrau. you hurted my feelin'. the one on mi arse. ahhhh

Talking of typos, have you seen Cod's contribution to the Grandparents/nativity plays thread? One to treasure

wot about it

I agree w/bluejelly.

LOOOOONNGGG posts w/no paragraphs or line breaks I cannot be arsed reading.

Call me a snob, but I don't read posts in txtspk or with naff abbreviations like 'LO' for child.

but does anyone care about not capitalising at the beginning of sentences? it's obviously somethign i don't give a shit about.

and look how i typo-ed something... i do that so often it no longer looks wrong to me. Luckily MS Word cleans it up for me at work.

I think sentences with initial capitals are easier to read faster because then you don't need to rely on picking up the full stops. What I'm never sure about is whether I should re-post with corrected typing or is that more annoying than just leaving as it? is?

I am a great speller, I am a poor typist - I can't be arsed to correct my typing all the time especially in "chat" topics. Sometimes I can't even be arsed to capitalise.

And I don't puntuate properly either - this is 'stream of consciousness' stuff

And I sometimes start sentences with And

Time and a place and all that

and so do i, iota.

take your point about the full stops, poppy nic, that's why i like to press enter a lot.

Glad it's not just me Aitch - gawd - I'm not writing a bleeding essay or a business proposal

It's hard to avoid typos 100% of the time, however pedantic you may be. And sometimes, even if you check back through what you've written, the typo doesn't leap out at you (I have a habit of writing 'univeristy' and I regularly fail to notice it, and they don't come much more pedantic than me...!)

MN is a chat room and I don't get too hung up about spelling and grammar on here (with the exception of txt spk, which I just can't understand, so I give up...). A chat is a chat. I overuse brackets and ellipses on here and in emails etc. But bad spelling, grammar and punctuation winds me up in 'official' communications, published material, etc.

I wince at spelling and grammar mistakes (especially my own)
I am 100% with pruni early on in this thread about txtspk and no paragraphs etc.
But typos are fine on here imo.
I don't text in textspeak - can't bring myself to do it.

I blame the parents - mine - they are both teachers

oh yes, i am (by my own admission) a terrible abuser of the parenthesis and ellipsis...

Doggie, why are typing errors ok but not spelling errors? I do both and to me they are both errors. Why is one ok but not the other? You see I am sure people who are good at spelling think that poor spellers are just lazy.