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 find it particularly disappointing when some poor distressed soul pours our their heart in an OP and the first post is 're-post' with paragraphs. I've very rarely seen an OP that I couldn't read just due to lack of paragraphs.

I also think that it's a very poor show to comment on spelling/grammar where the OP is distressed/in trouble.

I'm less bothered by it in other types of threads (especially if it is a goady OP) and I wouldn't support a blanket ban. MNers are quite good at stomping on this stuff within a thread I find.

I do find the increasing use of 'draws' when people mean 'drawers' completely maddening though

biwi - I do largely agree with you. The reason I think there's an element of class sneering (and yes, someone did say plebs - I was quoting usual) is that 'have' and 'of' are only homophones in non-RP accents. And I have noticed it is common on MN for people to claim they're not homophones if you talk 'properly'.

That's all.

And sure, we should all be able to spell these things, but sometimes people slip up - I don't see why it's such an issue. It's good to make an effort, but I don't think any of us is ever perfect.

People leave school without these basic skills for lots of reasons BIWI can you honestly not see that making someone feel small for it is a shitty thing to do?

Course she is, but not when the 'mistake' wasn't actually a mistake in the first place.

Can you correct stuff like,

'Here, here,' to 'hear, hear,'

Or chesterdrawers to chest of drawers?

Or is that a personal attack?

at celibacy.

We all make typing errors occasionally, but if you can't spell basic everyday words or write grammatically correct sentences then it is a shame for you. As I see it MN is helping to uphold basic standards of written English.

I bet they don't shop at Ocado, I bet they can't even spell it. Sparkly pink plebs.

There is no need for it, especially where the op is obviously distressed, first twenty posters "paragraphs op, my eyeeeesss". Backpatting one another at their absolute cleverness. Well done grammar monitor, well done. It's not nice to see.

Ah a subtle nod that's what that was. Gotcha

It is done to make the poster feel small.

It's horrible and makes me cringe.

someone did occidentally say earlier that they intended to ignite their MIL rather than invite their MIL!

I am dyslexic. if someone corrects my spelling or grammar I don't think it makes me look small, i think it makes them look small.

Yes of course, cunty. Which is what I said in my first post on this thread.

But no reason why people can't carry on learning when they leave school, is there? Communities like MN rely on people writing. So understanding how to write can only be a good thing, surely?

But to be clear, no I don't endorse PAs. I never said I did.

That might have been more of a freudian slip Charis

But we need standards dammit.

I am unsubtle.

Haha, ok then.

I'm hardly going to make such an obvious grammatical error in my reply am I.

I'm still waiting to see where, in my first post on the subject, I was sneery (spelled correctly this time!), arrogant and mean.

I'm normally quite a reasonable poster. I've never pulled anybody up on grammar or spelling (unless they were goady little trolls). Yet you were quite awful to me. Do we have history that I'm unaware of? Or are you generally unpleasant?

Standards are highly over rated

Why should we sneer at having standards though? What's wrong with that? Why is it about lowest common denominator rather than highest common factor?

Is it really the 'lowest common denominator' to be unable to spell and to make grammatical typos?

Yes, I agree, it's good to keep learning. But it's not good if you set yourself up as the person in charge of deciding what the 'lowest common denominator' is and constantly putting people in that category while you're secure in the knowledge you're not in there.

Threads get derailed for all kinds of pointless shit. At least you might learn something from the pedants. Spelling and grammar keep this forum from sinking into textspeak. Maybe we should have a dictionary icon as a more gentle prod to proofread.

And my irony metre exploded

Ah ha ha ha. And my irony meter just exploded!

I used to be a spelling and grammar snob but I read a very long thread about people who really struggled with it and I stopped being so judgemental when I realised how hard it was for some people who, for whatever reason struggled with their spelling and grammar. It still bugs me but I'd never ever attack someone who needed support because they'd written ' could of'. ( even though I cringe inside).

I also have a friend who is dyslexic but is also highly intelligent and makes over £150k a year as a landscape architect, so it's really no indicator of how intelligent or successful ( or worthwhile as a person ) someone is.

I don't have history with posters tbh I never remember names. I will probably barrel in and respond in a supportive and caring manner to a thread you start tomorrow with no recollection of you on this thread. Feel free to tell me to piss off if I do

Besides, why should it be about the highest common factor all the time?

There are loads of threads where people come and ask MN to help them understand secondary school maths. IME people on those threads are polite and interested, and often try to find ways for OPs who don't understand much maths to get to grips with what their children are doing.

That doesn't mean MN couldn't also support people who are maths whizz kids and I'm sure some people are. But very few seem to mind talking about the basics.