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 am a constant lurker and sometime poster in Pedants' Corner. It's fun and friendly, for the most part. The folk in Pedants' Corner are not the ones making snarky remarks on other threads about grammar mistakes.

Doesn't It Always Run Rather Horribly Over Each Ankle is how to remember diarrhoea.

I wasn't saying it's ok to criticise people who can't read that well

I get the 'some' part.

But to be honest I didn't actually get what you were trying to get at? As no-one has mentioned reading on this thread.

Therefore it did seem like a bit of a generalisation even with 'some' thown in there.

An old Line Manager of mine had that written in the margin of her diary, for sickness absence reports

Sorry, seneca, I didn't know that and feel a bit guilty. Though, I am a pedant, so it shouldn't surprise me.

I do think that pedants corner is generally a friendly place. But I have seen threads started in there taking the piss out of posters mistakes.

Ooh thanks pipbin! I still do never eat cake eat salad sandwiches and remain young for necessary and now I have one for diarrhea

twart - ah, I see. Yes, people were discussing reading immediately prior to my post, and that was what I was responding to!

It was the discussion about finding posts hard to read.

Some were saying that if you found posts hard to read, it was your fault, and someone explained they couldn't easily read unpunctuated posts.

I replied to that explaining that, for some people, these are two side of the same problem: some people, like you or me, are lucky in that we can read well enough even if we struggle with writing. But others struggle with both, and it is not ok to judge them.

Sorry cunty- that's the US spelling (though at this time, you may be US-based). Diarrhoea is the UK spelling.

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.

Right but the problem is, often the thread becomes all about the twats pulling the OP up about their spelling.

So the OP's original post often gets lost in the bun fight. It's stupid and so unnecessary.

I'd like to see HQ come down hard on this, or at least be consistent with their 'official' take on it.

So far they seem quite sketchy.

'Diarrhoea', when I was growing up! A lot of that Greek-derivation stuff has been simplified, like 'foetus'. I can't bring myself to write 'fetus' without a massive internal struggle,

Bollocks

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Jeanne ahhh right ho,

I had read those too, but for what ever reason, I hadn't equated that to your post

so much for my great comprehension

My laptop's default setting is US which I haven't figured out how to change and really should because it makes spell checker a total arse to use

I have seen that in PC, too, usual, but they often get jumped on pretty fast if the regulars see them.

Doesn't It Always Run Rather Horribly Over Each Ankle is how to remember diarrhoea. Doesn't work in the US, though.

Oh can someone please put me out of my misery on how to spell Shebourne, it's really bugging me now

Please

spell check is good sometimes. but often words can look very simlar.

my reading is not great. im ok in places like this/fb...but if i read a book time i get to bottom of the page i have forgot what i have written.

or if there is writing with numbers its just a jumble to me

Does it matter though if an American spelling is used on an English forum?

twart - it's a really long thread, it's fine! I should have been quicker to pick up what you were getting at and to apologise for it being an unclear post.

Does anyone else get very good at talking around the issue?

I'd always have an upset tummy and be ashamed - never diarhoea of the stomach and be embarresed.

Mnenomics confuse me. I'm sure there's an explanation for that.

twart- do you mean Siobhan? Because it's usually pronounced Shuh-vorne where I am.

I would hope not cunty. But I do have to say that one reason that I don't just hide every AIBU thread that has the words "should of" in the title is that I would then have to give up playing blame-every-degradation-of-the-English-language-on-the-Americans bingo.

Yes yes thank you!!

And yes I think it is pronounced with a V but thats part of my stupid brain getting the sounds mixed up. Also an acquaintance call her dd that but with the b instead of V

Siobhan, Siobhan, Siobhan, Siobhan

Right it should be in my spell checker now.
Now all I have to do is remember it starts with Si and hopefully it will come up