Typing and spelling.

[Guest]

Thats what worries me too Bruxhy......losing our fine language..its very easy to slip into(as you say with texts)...in abbreviating words..forgetting spelling etc..
after reading this..Im gonna sit down and try to write a 'proper' letter to my old mucker Sheila ...........ellie

[DaGi]

Have mercy on the foreigners !! We all do our best to express ourselves in this beautiful language, but sometimes we do make errors.

[cowboy]

Have mercy on the foreigners !! We all do our best to express ourselves in this beautiful language, but sometimes we do make errors.

Good point... the net is international.
Also, it has users of all ages, classes and levels of education.

Having said that, I admit that I do note how well a poster writes when I decide how much weight I give to his/her opinion.

[heini]

I agree, cowboy (You should have seen the spelling mistake I made typing your name - it would have served for at least 100 replies of the innuendo/nasty type )
Congratulations on achieving "veteran" and gold star status on this board!

[bica]

No use of ‘ in ‘I’ll’.

Why would you use a ‘ in I’ll wouldn't it be better to use a '

I can be a pedant too (or should that be pendant?)

The important thing is that people are communicating. Does it really matter if the punctuation is not 100%?

For many of the people using this site English is not their first language and why should it be it is a site dedicated to a "village" in southern Portugal.

If I posted on a Portuguese site the spelling would be rubbish, the grammar worse and forget the punctuation!

IMO it is the content of the post that is important not ensuring that it would pass the inspection of a 1950's English teacher

L8ters M8s


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[bica]

By the way G souldn't this be in Chit Chat

[John1]

I must admit that when I post in this Forum, out of sheer laziness I don't always type correctly. But with the demise of letter writing these days and with the advent of texting and e-mail, the English language is often abused,so spelling,grammar and punctuation should really be given attention so that younger generations and foreigners can learn. I cringe sometimes when I see the spelling mistakes on this Forum but then I am not a great typist and mistakes are easy to make and I don't concern myself too much about it. I suppose some younger person (i.e below 30 something!) will post and say that with computers you dont need to write letters and they do all the spell checks etc for you.
But in no way should people who struggle with spelling etc be made to feel reluctant to post - afraid of some criticism. Communication is the key and all people can contribute something worthwhile. Anyway, that's enough of me droning on at this time of night......Boa Noite!

[cowboy]

I agree, cowboy (You should have seen the spelling mistake I made typing your name - it would have served for at least 100 replies of the innuendo/nasty type )

I'll take that as a compliment, Heini... You could always PM those spelling mistakes to me. LOL


Congratulations on achieving "veteran" and gold star status on this board!

Thank you Heini, I owe it all to verbosity and the other posters here.

And Steen, of course....after all, Steen not only started this site (and I see others are starting copy the idea), but he didn't ban me from this site forever.... although there were times (during the "Lonesome Larry" period), when I'm willing to bet money, he thought about it.

[B2D]

No space between the end of one sentence and the next. No question mark at the end of a question. Isn’t that bad? No use of the comma and no full stop at the end of a sentence. No capital letter at start of the sentence and a small i instead of ‘I’. No use of ‘ in ‘I’ll’.

Shouldn't these clauses be separated by semi colons rather than full stops as they are not actually sentences?
As spellcheck would say - fragment consider revising!

[Sharen Crane]

I am an avid letter writer and, as Michael will confirm, I am also an avid texter. However I do not use text speak very often, I have predictive text on my mobile and will more often than not use the entire word rather than the text abbreviation! That said there are times when if I am in a hurry I will use text speak in an email or text message. I never, use it in a handwritten letter!

It's very easy to sit a criticise other people for their mistakes but at the end of the day get some perspective it's only spelling and grammar, it is not the end of the world!

Digger made a comment about the reason people can't spell is because they didn't go to school! I should just make the point that my sister not only went to school, she went to University and still she cannot spell! The reason for this is because schools seem to think it undermines a child's confidence to be told when they are wrong so they are happy to perpetuate the problem!

[cember]

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marks four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye is wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong

Eye has run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew

[loretta]

When I spoke to my daughters english teacher about my concerns regarding her bad spelling and the use of text abbreviations in her written work the teacher said it wasnt anything to worry too much about as she would grow out of it!! Her spelling has got worse since she started secondary school and got a mobile phone.

[Sharen Crane]

Brilliant cember