Spelling nazis

[Badjelly]

I don't know how people find the time!

[mister.koz]

I don't know how people find the time!

I guess people gotta have a hobby eh?

[vifferman]

It really depends on what bit of it yer on.
In order to appear less dweeby, I hang out at the less geeky end of the show, near the popular kids (so people might think I'm "in with the in crowd").

The term "Interdweeb" is all encompassing: it includes the internets, interwebs, intranets, and any other things connecting dweeboids (which presumably could include sexual organs, but let's not go there )

[vifferman]

I don't know how people find the time!

I guess people gotta have a hobby eh?

Multitasking.
Or more probably/correctly, multitimewasting.

[MSTRS:Me]

i'm aiming for a degree of personalisation to my writings - hopefully drawing the reader into my train of thought rather than just presenting him [or her] with the finished and finite product ......

a few sparse and suggestive brushstrokes on the clean canvas .... indicative rather than explicite ....

...in much the same way as an oriental drawing, i am trying to INVOLVE the observer rather than dictate to him [or her]

Ou la la. Get you, mspretentious...

*retires, hurt*

Mend your ways and we'll say no more about it.

[Hitcher]

The BDOTGNZA is wryly amused. It accepts that it is in a minority, but will continue to fight the good fight.

Tip of the day: There is no such word as Im.

[vifferman]

The BDOTGNZA is wryly amused. It accepts that it is in a minority, but will continue to fight the good fight.

Tip of the day: There is no such word as Im.

Are you sure?
Must be a proper noun then - there's a lot of 'em im's around, like Im the Potent, Im the Portant (or is that "portent"?), Im the Possible, etc etc.

[Mikkel]

hmmmmmmm
actually fella, i don't either ... perhaps he has the same slant on it as moi?

my feeling is, i know the rules and choose to break them, for effect, when and wheresoever i feel inclined

after all, it's MY mother tongue just as much as anyone else's and, as long as i'm intelligible, who should care if i add my own slant to the thing?

Pardon, makes no sense to me...

But i digress ...
insofar as my choosing NOT to capitalise the perpendicular pronoun is concerned, it is an expression of my view of my place within the universe in relation to my fellow man [or woman]

i could just as easily have chosen to always capitalise 'you', 'them', 'he', 'she' etc ......... but i found NOT capitalising the 'i' both less fatiguing and more impactive.

Now, let's agree that the literary convention is to capitalise the I, not you, them, he, she, etc. As such you make a conscious effort to make your self-references stand out from the norm. Hmmm, very interesting indeed...

When it comes to the "i"'s and the "I"'s, i am just lazy

I doubt anyone were having doubts there.

Thats quite allot of common mistakes .

And a few repetitive ones as well.

[Sniper]

I just found i got a negative rep because i criticized someone for correcting my spelling, it wasn't the criticized who repped me by the way.

I'll admit my message might have been snappy but i see pointless posts in threads all the time and allot of them are to do with spelling.

Its quite annoying when you are waiting for some help/advice from knowledgeable people who are in abundance here and you click the "new post to thread ..." link in your email and get a pointless comment.

Do people really are so much about spelling? Are people really that bored?

I don't know how people find the time!

Put it this way....

You won't be the first and definitely won't be the last.

We have the Spanish Inquisition......

[Beemer]

The BDOTGNZA is wryly amused. It accepts that it is in a minority, but will continue to fight the good fight.

Tip of the day: There is no such word as Im.

I'm here! Present and correct!

I do get annoyed when people say spelling and grammar don't matter as long as the message gets across. I think it DOES matter, depending on who you are giving that message to. If you're emailing your mate and he/she can't spell and doesn't give a toss, you're right, it doesn't matter. If, however, you are applying for a job or asking for help, it does matter.

I do editing for a living so this subject is dear to my heart (and VERY dear to my bank balance!) and I do judge some people by their written communications. I don't come on here and point out all your mistakes unless I can't understand a word you're saying, nor do I send back emails to friends with corrections to their spelling. However, when I am looking at hiring a professional, their written material such as websites, advertisements and brochures, as well as any emails they send me, matters a great deal. If they can't be arsed spelling things correctly and paying attention to grammar, it indicates to me that they are likely to be just as slack in what I am hiring them to do. If YOU aren't any good at this kind of thing, that's what people like me are for - you pay us to ensure your message is clear and unambiguous.

The newspapers are great for errors, especially the ads. Recently Kirkcaldies were advertising naivety sets and today a storage company says if you don't have any cartoons, they can provide them for you!

Nobody wants to be thought of as thick but many people have no problems sending out poorly worded letters that make people think they ARE thick. One editor told me that if she gets any emails from people seeking work that have her distinctive name spelled incorrectly or any other errors, she just throws them in the bin.

As for not using capital letters, that IS lazy and it's just as naff as spelling your name all in lower case.

A letter was read out loud at a meeting I was at last night and the reader had to stop and start several times as well as re-read sections as there was no punctuation. That aptly illustrated just how important grammar is to ensuring your message is understood.

Another pet hate of mine is any business that spells its name in a 'trendy' way - Bladez Barber Shop, Scizzors Hair Design - it's usually hair salons, clothes shops or cafes. I refuse to shop there on principle!

[Badjelly]

As for not using capital letters, that IS lazy and it's just as naff as spelling your name all in lower case.

No it's not. It's quirky and inventive. Mstriumph set us straight on that.

[vifferman]

i could just as easily have chosen to always capitalise 'you', 'them', 'he', 'she' etc .........

PLEASE don't do that.
I took over from a guy who had a brain fart and decided that a whole bunch of nouns were proper nouns, and therefore capitalised the first letter of each, After nearly 28 months, I'm still finding examples in our documentation that I have to change back to lowercase. While I can use the search function with "Match case" turned on, I can't use the "Search and destroy" option, as it also turns up every sentence starting with a noun, so I have to do the replacement manually.

[Ixion]

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As for not using capital letters, that IS lazy and it's just as naff as spelling your name all in lower case.

But what if one is a cockroach? Must not an allowance be made for size and poetic greatness ?

[vifferman]

I do get annoyed when people say spelling and grammar don't matter as long as the message gets across. I think it DOES matter, depending on who you are giving that message to.

Yes. No. Depends.
I agree with you, but I'm quite prepared to ignore mistakes on a forum like this, unless they're an obvious sign of fuckwittery, or they're so bad that they make the post unreadable or confusing. But usually I only pick on errors if it amuses me to do so, or they're an amusing faux pas that needs to be highlighted.
Some are eminently forgivable, like when Cajun posts something in a hurry. We know he's dyslexic, so it's actually a huge pain to fix. And I know how he feels, because my brain is rooted and sometimes I get keyboard dyslexia and everything comes out garbled and needs correcting multitudinous times.
Plus (also!), having to do all the writing and editing all day, it's nice to come on here and deliberately mangulate stuff. If I can do that, then I'm not going to pick on someone who has mistakes unless they're obviously due to laziness or fuckwittery. Not that I know how you can tell - I mean, I'm a fuckwit, and it's not always apparent, only when I put my size 45 boot in my mouth. (So... only every other post then...)

[vifferman]

But what if one is a cockroach? Must not an allowance be made for size and poetic greatness ?

Sounds fare.
But only if cockroaches are your usual dinner, and they squeak, sing or otherwise punctuate your meal.