Sam
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Please humour me with this...
A lot of people on here for the most part cannot spell or construct sentences to save their lives. I'm not talking about the odd typo here and there, or even to some extent people that just reply in lowercase in their posts, I'm talking about people who really cannot be arsed to write stuff properly.
What I'd like to know is this - if you're of those people, do you actually make an effort to write properly 'offline', or has your schooling failed you somehow/you never bothered to learn much whilst you were at school?
Oh and before anyone starts:
- I am not a spelling Nazi, I am just genuinely interested in finding out people's thoughts on this subject
- This is not directed at people with learning disabilities
Flame suit zipped up... 
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Brett
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Everyone has Dyslexia these days Sam, didn't you realise?
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Munchie
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LoLz
whuup2 m8
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Eddx14xe
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I think a lot of it is due to laziness, although schools do play a massive part. When I was at school, I found that teachers didn't really seem bothered with grammar, when they check your work they just put punctuation etc on your work. Didn't explain why they were doing it, just done it and gave it back to you.
Also things like the differences between there, their, they're, your and you're. If I'm honest in English at school all we seemed to do is read poems and watch family guy, no joke.
Also my grammar etc was quite bad before I started using this site, I would happily admit that talking on this site and the internet has helped me with stuff more than school did.
P.S this does not reflect all schools, just my personal experience.
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sc0ott
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A spell checker would help, but do they exist on forums
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willay
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Or a browser with a spellchecker, which offloads all the work onto the client 
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nathy_87
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Banned imo. Ian doesn't like swearing in the titles. 
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nathy_87
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quote:
Originally posted by sc0ott
A spell checker would help, but do they exist on forums
Yes they do. We have/had one on the forum I moderate. 
@Willay: Google Chrome has got one built in.
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Eddx14xe
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Another point about schools, my friend is training to be a teacher and she doesn't seem to know the difference between your and you're or there, their and they're. If teacher are doing it wrong then the kids have no chance.
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Whittie
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It's quite worrying tbf.
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JordyCarter
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Who cares?
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Whittie
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^ Sadly a lot of people have that attitude, so not many.
Kids are going to be fucked when they're our age.
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BarnshaW
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what I think funny is that I know full well everyone is triple checking their posts in this thread before replying
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BeetleGav
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I'd triple check my posts but I'm sick of my phone thinking it knows best, So I let it carry on. It's not getting it wrong so badly that people's head will explode
Annoys me when people say brought instead of bought! Seriously?
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A2H GO
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Using a computer in general has made me much better at spelling/grammar(although I'm still not great) however my handwriting has gone shocking.
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Root
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i dunno wut u are tlkin bout u idiot.
lol, only joking. That ^ kind of writing pisses me off immensely.
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Root
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quote:
Originally posted by BeetleGav
Annoys me when people say brought instead of bought! Seriously?
Same
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Jambo
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
what I think funny is that I know full well everyone is triple checking their posts in this thread before replying
This
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chrisritch
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I think it is because most people have grown a custom to text speak and that is the way they learned to 'spell' then when they attempt to write a correct sentence it all goes to pot
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Balling
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Typing in a second language, I can sum up the reasoning in one word:
Laziness.
I rely heavily on my browsers spell check, to typer properly on here. When in doubt about a words meaning or alternate spellings I google.
People with dyslexia have a hard time spelling correctly, they don't have an inability to spell correctly.
People who type like shit are lazy, and don't care how easy their text is to read.
If you can't be bothered to check what you've written, and consider the readability of it, perhaps it's not worth posting it at all.
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Balling
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Also, when browsing General Chat, there seems to be a quite steep rise in the number of users who've never opened a dictionary (or perhaps book) nor noticed the buttons on their keyboard, that feature these magical glyphs: . and ,
Edit: Spell check...! 
[Edited on 09-08-2012 by Balling]
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chrisritch
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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
Typing in a second language, I can sum up the reasoning in one word:
Laziness.
I rely heavily on my browsers spell check, to typer properly on here.
Don't think its working properly mate 
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Balling
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That must have been satisfying for you.
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Eddx14xe
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I think I've said this before but I'll say it again, Balling. Your English is actually better than most of the young English people that I regularly encounter.
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James
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It takes me longer to write in "text" speak than it does normally, because I have to think of the equivalent "text" speak word
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