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.

A reformed Grammar Nazi speaks

paintingthegreyarea.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/literacy-privilege/

Putting a after telling someone you can't read their posts doesn't really take the sting out of it, Thumb.

But, to be fair, it's the flipside of the same coin.

Some people who are bad at writing are also bad at reading.

Tits didn't mean to say grammar nazi (hate that term) been reading too many articles

I'm replying to MrsJayy's comment WAY up thread, actually Cooger.

Did you not reply at the time, Thumb? Seems a bit crass to do a Lolface whilst lumping it in with unpunctuated posts etc.

It amuse me how humphy Pedants can get when challenged.

I skim read, so don't always notice mistakes.

oh FFS Cooger, what IS your problem with me? [hmm
I am in a different timezone, I didn't see MrsJayy's post until I read back through the thread. Happy?

I think most reasonable posters do, usual. There's always stuff that catches in our personal Pedant Plughole, but what does it matter?
Never come across a post I could'nt tread on here. Couldn't be arsed to read, yes, but none that were impossible to decipher.

Nope Jean my reading and comprehension is fine, in fact I can read very fast, due to word shape.

But I can read a word a hundred times and not be-able to remember how to spell it. Especially words that don't seem to follow a common logic, like I can not for the life of me spell Shebourne

I don't have any problem with you whatsoever, Thumb, to clarify. Thank you for the kind wishes that my grammar remains constant throughout my life

Ha, sometimes I spell a word so wrong, my spell checker is like WTF?

I typo like a champion, combination of using phone a lot, poor coordination and dyslexia (which means, for me, that I'm shit at proof reading) you can always tell the posts I have written really fast because I care about the discussion and want to be an active participant not chiming in 2 pages too late but with better spag.

I don't really get how people can justify the outright rude and inappropriate corrections you see sometimes as anything other than assholery, because come on - they know they are being dicks.

Ha. First PA use of I've ever seen, thanks for that Cooger.

twart - sorry, did you mean me? And if so, can you run that past me again?

Stealing 'typo like a champion'.

usual yep

Yes Jeanne

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I just didn't follow why you were addressing that to me with a 'no'? I can't figure out which post of mine you were replying to.

Oh give over, Thumb.

These, yes, that's exactly it! It's a fast moving chat site. Who gives a bollocks if the grammar is always correct.

I was giving you feed back on this

Some people who are bad at writing are also bad at reading

I work in a field that involves having to be very good at grammar, spelling etc. and checking for mistakes is part of my job, so they leap out at me. Also, I appreciate the high standard of writing on MN – I do find it hard to read forums when there's a lot of textspeak.

BUT I'm always shocked when people correct other posters' spelling or grammar or sneer at them – it's horrendously bad form. You wouldn't do it in RL. I don't mention it when people I work with (who should have a perfect command of English) make mistakes in their emails. It would be really mean and petty. And anyone can make a mistake, especially typing fast on a forum. Sod's law says I'll almost certainly have made one in this post.

(The ONLY time it's acceptable to pick up on it IMO is in pedants' corner when a pedant has made a mistake in their post and it's all part of the fun :))

However I can see why MN can't be arsed to have to deal with it unless it's an obvious personal attack. On the plus side, it's self-policed - anyone who does it usually gets pulled up pretty fast by other posters on the thread.

I was trying to spell choreographer in a text the other day. I had to spell check it about 10 times before my phone finally got what I meant

twart - well, I don't think you can say 'no' to that and give an anecdote - your experience is the same as mine, as I've said earlier on the thread. But you and I are two people. Doesn't change the fact that some people who are bad at writing are bad at reading, and just because you're not, or I'm not, doesn't mean it is ok to criticize people who struggle to read.

diarrhea now that's one I have to look up every time and still never looks right - fortunately don't need it that often