i know i dont spell words right on here and use bad grammar but i have dyslexia and dyspraxia which are learning difficulties so therefore i have an excuse , doesnt mean am thick thou, far from it, just cant spell or use the correct grammar or correct tense :0)
"better a witty fool, than a foolish wit" shakespeare
CommentAuthorloubyscooby
Oh babes, Its just a generalisation not meant to hurt anyone. My son also has that so the comments we have all said are about lazyness not learning difficulties. I am sorry if you have taken this personally that was never my intent xx
CommentAuthornini
I think text speak is actually harder to read than genuine spelling mistakes. There have been some posts on here recently that I would have liked to have read but I thought my eyes were about to start bleeding! What is it with adding a 'y' where there should be an 'i' and swapping the 'th' at the end of words with a 'v'?? I do think as an adult you should really know how to speak (or type!), genuine spelling and grammar mistakes aside as everyone does that, especially if you would like replies to your post!
CommentAuthorfuture-mrs-watson
Oh hurrah for other people who appreciate the beauty of our English Language! It is getting so lost amongst slang, americanisms and that darned 'text speak'. It's not just spellings that irritate me though, it's poor grammar. Now at school I was not taught a great deal of grammar directly, however when I learnt to speak Spanish I realised how complex our grammar is. But not impossible to master the basics of!
Here's to using apostrophes, full stops and commas. And to differentiating between their, there and they're!
CommentAuthornini
I agree!! There, they're, their is one of my pet hates and makes me want to shout from my soap box!
i never took it as anything bad hunni, i do try to write properly but sometimes brain and fingers dont connect to what am trying to spell... i spell as it sounds!! just wanted to let people know that its not because im being lazy, i cant write text language as i dont understand it lol.... no offence taken at all by the way xx
"better a witty fool, than a foolish wit" shakespeare
CommentAuthorCroc
the their there and theyre thing i cant grasp never have done never will do ... not because i am lazy or dont no it , just beacsue my brain doesnt distinguise them as different (i have a certificate to prove that!!)
"better a witty fool, than a foolish wit" shakespeare
CommentAuthorfuture-mrs-watson
I do feel for people who have genuine dyslexia and can't get the whole there/their/they're thing. What annoys me is people who AREN"T dyslexic (but claim to be to account for either ignorance or laziness - unfair on people who are geniunely dyslexic) and are just LAZY. I'll be honest, I'm an educated woman but there are words I always struggle to spell - 'guarantee' is one of them - I always have to google it to look it up in the dictionary before I type it. I would rather do that than spell it wrong though! x
CommentAuthorsbride
I think Im getting confused with what we are talking about here. I thought you was moaning about basic txting abbreviations ie u for you and r for are but obviously there is a whole different level of it I havent picked up on, lol.
I am now Mrs Stacey Stiles and loving it!
CommentAuthormym72
It did start off about text talk and slang sbride - but also people being lazy in general and the lack of using proper written English. I do understand that some people can't help it (I work with kids with dyslexia and dyspraxia, and my son also has dyspraxia so know what it's like) - but there is a lot of people out there that make excuses - or even worse don't even make an excuse for their lack of basic written English, thinking everyone else wants to read their text babble.
It's nice to hear everyone elses niggles about this and spelling and grammar as well. After all, it's all included in written English lol.
CommentAuthorx ashlil x
well then i have 2 apologise because i am 1 of those people who uses tx slang so if u dont understand what im writing 2 u let me know and ur right it is laziness, i cant be bothered 2 sit here and spell it all out properly, whilst i am looking after the kids, tidying up and having a nose on here
CommentAuthorkrazykitty
i have to admit now that this thread has made me think more about my grammar haha. i know im lazy with my capital letters etc and some spellings still but i cant really be bothered to sit through what i have written, and punctuate it all as i know i dont think like that so i dont write like that! but i did start a discussiona dn altho it prob gramatically wrong i did try haha so am glad for this as im trying so hard to get my english back up to scratch!!
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CommentAuthormym72
It's probably me, but I find it second nature to automatically spell things properly while I'm typing. It would take more effort on my part to type in text talk because I've always wrote in proper English (just the way I've always been). Maybe it's got something to do with having to write properly in every job I've every had.
CommentAuthormym72
Half of the time the grammar doesn't really matter as long as people can read and understand what you're saying/writing though - that's more important lol.
CommentAuthormym72
Hehe - just noticed I replied a day ago, and it says on the forum the last post was written three days ago - glitch time methinks lol.
