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.

i was thinking about on here. i have not seen it on here. but if its indirect it may woosh overmy head.

but yes in real life i have seen and experienced it. i used to get called dopey all the time by my friends family. it was all the time. i used to answer to it because it was so often i never really heard it anymore.

I always think it's a sign of low intelligence not to be able to read posts that contain grammatical or spelling errors on a website.

My DS is dyslexic. His hand writing is awful too.

He is not thick or stupid. But it did hold him back at school because he couldn't get down on paper what was in his head.

DS2 is my child. One day he'll be an adult and I would like to think he could post on forum without being made to feel small because of his disability or feeling like he has to disclose his disability in order satisfy some pompous twat who likes to pretend she's being helpful when really it's just a smug aren't I clever shit display of superiority.

I admit, on here I think I am prickly about it. I don't think anyone would intentionally be rude about a specific child in an OP's post. But people do talk about standards slipping and try to imagine what a child who struggles with these things would be like, and I find those posts quite jarring. I remember someone writing what she imagined a child who struggled with spelling would write for an essay in English, and she wrote this very wooden, clunky piece supposedly in that child's voice.

But yes, you're right, it's nothing like so common on MN a in RL.

I really hope you know you're not 'dopey' or any of those things! That's really shit of people.

Although he seemed to manage to post on plenty of websites in his teen years

cowface when someone feels the need to point out my spelling/grammar in a nasty way. i tell them i have dyslexia. not because i feel i need to explain my self.. i just do it to make them look small...i guess thats really childish of me really :/

Well, if you're childish, I am infantile.

I absolutely love doing that.

Why should you have to though?

They look enough of a dick doing it without you needing to give them an explanation.

Do teenagers actually use words on websites, usual?

This is a great blog which sums up why the grammar police are in fact pricks

writingishard.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/why-im-not-proud-of-you-for-correcting-other-peoples-grammar/

Well I have nothing against a bit of childishness ghostspirit

I hope DS2 grows up to be confident and resilient too.

Actually he has never used txt speak. He's a bloody pedant now he can use spell check

To whomever was saying that they think constant reading of incorrect spellings might actually filter into their brains and thence into their fingers, I have noticed that this is happening to me!

There and their is my big fail. Mostly I notice, especially in emails where I do read back what I've written; but not always (and usually on MN just exactly at the point where I've hit "post message")

I never used to make that mistake. But now I am! It's either an age-related thing, or it's the online reading thing - or possibly both.

That blog is a hoot, cunty. My favorite bit: "apparently someone killed his cat while saying “irregardless” a lot."

They are two distinct words to me, Thumb, with completely different meanings, like many words that attract criticism on here if used incorrectly. My mind just autocorrects. I suspect most posters on here find the same, but the urge to score a cheap shot in the face of 'dumbing down' gets the better of admitting they can read posts perfectly well.

Well yes, Cooger - I know they're different words and that - but still I find myself, over the last year, making that mistake time and time again. It's irritating the fuck out of me!

I always cock up to and too.

I don't make that mistake, Thumb. Predictive text and inattention might make that mistake for me, but I'd never judge someone on a website for it. So I'm with the OP, irrelevant corrections should be seen as a PA and deleted.

Someone corrected a poster earlier for using brought instead of bought and actually justified it by saying it was difficult to decipher a post when a word was used incorrectly. Really? Decipher? Because of one word mistake?

I agree, Cooger. Or more likely, claiming you can't understand someone's post because of their poor spelling and grammar is just a way of justifying being rude. I have seen many many to me cringe-worthy mistakes on MN, but not once have they ever made me unable to understand the post.

A large part of my job involves correcting spelling and grammar. If I can resist the temptation to do it to adults who have not come onto a forum for a grammar lesson, surely anyone can!

Another good article

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/03/my-problem-with-grammar-snobs

Good for you, Cooger, good for you. I hope that continues for you throughout your life.

The only posts I have trouble deciphering are those without punctuation, and yes mrsjayy, that does sometimes include yours!! It can take 3 goes to separate out the meaning sometimes. And sometimes that means I won't bother, just pass the comment by.

And this one: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/gasps-of-shock-at-hay-literary-festival-as-professor-asks-for-grammar-pedants-to-relax-8636656.html

Personally, I look down on anyone who couldn't get through an Irvine Welsh or Riddley Walker