Isn't about time MNHQ started deleting posts that attack people's spelling and grammar?

[cuntycowfacemonkey]

(In advance I will say any of my posts are likely to have spelling and grammar mistakes)

It's such a shitty thing to do and often it is directed at poster who then feel they have to explain themselves and disclose they have dyslexia. I don't understand why MN tolerate people with potential disabilities being mocked in this way?

Why can it not be regarded as a personal attack and such comments deleted. Very often the arses that post comments about another posters spelling bring nothing else to the thread and usually it derails the thread and the OP's original issue gets lost in the ensuing bunfight.

Confused, there should certainly be a comma in "It's not something you forget, is it?"

Many careful writers would put a comma in "You either use it correctly, or you don't."

"Not continuously, anyhow." is again lacking a comma.

I remember one parent sending a letter back into school that she'd circled in red ink because of incorrect spelling.

I suspect she had circled words in the letter, rather than the whole letter. Does the transitive verb "to circle" now mean "to draw circles on parts of?" No, I don't think it does.

"She is a bit of a tiger mum, though."

Ok, confused. You've a persistent difficulty with commas.

For example:

'It doesn't have to be nasty though Ghost.'

'Yeah we all get tired and if you're looking it up before posting there's no problem is there?'

'Worra - where a poster is pulling her hair out and on some kind of distress pulling up bad grammar is not on and I don't see it these days.'

Here, you really needed a comma before the proper name, and after the 'Yeah'. I'd also have put one before 'and' and after 'problem', but those are more a matter of style. In the final example, you have almost omitted punctuation entirely.

'If I was posting the wrong spelling/grammar time after time I'd rather it be corrected tbh.'

You meant 'if I were'. As I said above when you asked for corrections, you've mistaken the mood here.

If you do those things at work, then you are writing poor English.

confused, yes, obviously, I have - because I think you need to understand what it might feel like.

You're not making typos here. You appear, from your posts, not to know how to use basic punctuation.

My guess is that you do know, but you're relaxed about it on MN, or that you know some of the basics, but you're not quite sure all of the time.

And that's how it is for lots of us, and it does feel like being 'caught out' when someone starts a pedantry thread. And you lot do come across as gleeful when you 'catch' us, just as I do here.

You claimed you'd rather be corrected, but you never acknowledged my initial correction - which suggests to me you either didn't see it, or didn't actually anticipate it being a real possibility that you'd be corrected.

yes it's nasty and let's the site down

Ah but text speak is old hat - all about the emojis and autocorrect fails now I see the grammar / spelling police and I just think teacher / offspring of teacher with massive chip on shoulder.

Surely the charm of mn is the ability to communicate with others from all walks of life. As long as posts are understood and exclusive "in crowd" code is avoided everyone should be permitted linguistic freedom.

name - oh, fair enough, I take your point and agree you can usually get a fair sense of how someone would normally write. I guess I think of MN as being a few notches 'down', so tend to assume people smarten up a little for work. But that wouldn't change the point you're making, I realize.

Maybe we can have some sort of smiley we can attach to our posts if we would like to be educated "like wot some pple might like"

I certainly wouldn't mind and atm my dear dh is away for a week and my English is terrible. I have been learning ks2 with dd over the past 3 years and I think we are just about working at level 5 now
We were considering doing a SATS paper but have nobody to mark it for us.

How is pointing out someone misuses 'your' and 'you're' not pulling them up? In the context of this thread, that applies to lots of us.

Beautifully done Jeanne

I like it when people correct grammar and spelling.

It shows that they're cunty people doing a cunty thing for their own nefarious cunty reasons (not the "Greater Good" as they like to pretend).

I tend then to put them in the cunty box in my head - which means that every time their name pops up I think "cunt"..Works for me...

I think it's covered in the MN guidelines on "giving people the benefit of the doubt". So everybody should say to themselves: "maybe this person has a disability which means they don't always spell things in an orthodox way" or "maybe this person doesn't have English as their first language" before giving in to the hotly held desire to rip them to shreds and humiliate them.

At 14.47 today, confused, about the TA at your school.

No. Delete posts with poor grammar and spelling instead.

And those with hubby, hubs, Hun and kisses.

Oh, maybe we need a cunty box on the site, provided by MNHQ?

Maybe like the "Karma" systems some other forums have.

Users could be rated for "Helpfullness", "Goadyness", "Cuntyness" - a simple colour code at the bottom would allow you to rate them without actually having to read any of the crap they post....

I am admiring your work here, Jeanne.

Ooops, that was a follow-up to IKnow, not a response to anyone else.

Or they could use this emoticon -

My DH was diagnosed with dyslexia later in life. The Ed Psychologist who conducted the test praised him for having achieved so much in his life - good school grades, A-levels, university etc. etc., knowing how much of a struggle it must have been for him. DH said most of his school days were miserable and confusing but he pushed through it.

He is amazing (to me) but he still asks me what I would like for diner. He cannot and probably will never be able to see the difference between diner and dinner. When he writes emails, text messages, reports for work, his writing is very intelligible as he uses spell checks and proof reads everything.