do yoy think peopel who can onyl do tigers are reallyhorrible

[FluffyMummy123]

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It's the female equivalent of a Pom Bear

what are you on about now, you ickle cuddly fluffy bear you?

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Was rude.

you couldn't really get away with name-changing could you cod?

your recent stalker episode was a bit odd though wasn't it?

I wonder who they were

I put her straight about the can spell can't type thing but apprently in this day and age there's no excuse.

Lost interest when she atrted on about typing pools.

Think you would have been in the pool cod and she'd have been management or summink.

Oh, I thought it might be about that daft toxic shock syndrome thingy. Typing pool reference was bizarre. Many years ago when I was a secretary I used to correct the most appalling howlers from my bosses.

Fuck it, who gives a shit about typing styles anyway.

ahem, I mean it isn't good form is it dears, and a little unnecessary. But then we do have a whole corner for these sort of ramblings.

who was cod's stalker?

you ae paanoid

she clealy meant aah-less moi

cod of coddington hall - who was that?

did anyone own up? or was it a newbie?

v.v freaky

Oops, I seem to have opened up a hornet's nest here. No personal criticisms to anyone intended!
I thought mumsnet was a place where you could have an intelligent discussion about an interesting subject without anyone feeling they are being personally got at. And I thought pedant's corner was the right sort of place to raise a discussion about grammar/spelling etc(rather than AIBU where everyone is ranty and tempers get frayed).
Maybe I was wrong?
All I meant was, generally on forums there is a tendency to type badly and not read it through, so althogh it's quick for the first person, the next person actually takes longer to understand what they are tyring to say! So they might get bored and go onto the next message so whatever point you are making has been lost.
The comment about typing pools (which were still around in the late 80s when I graduated and did some temping as a secretary/typist) was to say that typists were looked down on because they were considered less skilled than managers, whereas they actually might have had a better education and could actually spell (whereas the managers, who were earning more money, often couldn't) and how unfair this was. Especially as the typists were usually women and managers were men!
So because of this there is an inverse snobbery about typing badly nowadays, it's considdered "cool" to type badly because you are too busy and too important to check what you have written (and we all make mistakes).
But I think things are slowly changing and of course it depends on the context as to how careful you need to be with spelling/punctuation etc. In an informal internet forum (such as this one) a certan amount of bad spelling is OK (and I think I have made some typos in this message), but not if it's all the way through. I have also noticed this in work situations with managers who haven't got secretaries because the organisational hierarchies have been flattened due to "restructring".
OK now?

Did you notice that you typed "considdered"? Perhaps it was to test whether other people are actually reading your posts.

(I only scanned your post for errors btw, I've no idea what you actually said.)

I made a few other mistakes too. It don't want anyone to think I'm pedantic!

and "restructring"

Typing is no reflection on intelligence, nor how "cool" you are. I usually type and construct sentences like an illiterate 12 year old but it's just because I am in a hurry, I actually studied Classics at Oxford, so am supposed to have a good grounding in such things. I also type hideous texts half full of text speak!!

I counted four errors. Not that I care, I could understand it perfectly anyway.

I think using a spell checker to check posts on here would verge on having OCD to be honest!

"Typing is no reflection on intelligence, nor how "cool" you are."
Yes, I couldn't agreee more. A great many people with high IQs are bad typists. But you need more than a high IQ, you need emotional intelligence if you want to communicate well.
Reviewing what you write before hitting the "send" does show consideration for others and enable that you are understood/empathiesed with by more people.
You need to check that your message is not confusing, offensive (whoops, I failed that one!), repetitive or incomplete.
The beauty of email and the internet is that it's so quick and so powerful, but that is also its downfall, you can easily confuse/alienate/offend/bore lots of peoppe just by hitting that "send" button too soon.
Another point: people with OCD are ill, they're not just being fusspots or pedantic.
All I'm saying is if you have something to say and care about being understood, you should read it through before hitting the "send" button. In fact that that's all most people need to do. The message might take say 2 minutes rather than 1 minute to write, but it will reap rewards.
Off to bed now, it's getting late...

well-typed messages are just as likely to be boring or irrelevant ime

reminds me of that line from disposable heroes of hiphoprisy

"where straight teeth in your mouth are more important than the words which come out of it"

[slightly sanctimonious smile emoticon]

I find messages without proper whitespace (eg paragraphs) much more difficult to read than misspellings or bad typing. Those are two different things, I don't think you can call one the other; misspellings grate but I don't notice bad typing that much unless it's incomprehensible.

In answer to the OP, I am inclining towards 'yes' But don't worry, I lack emotional intelligence!