Internet help: I am irritated by grammatical and spelling errors. - Help.com

I agree that some people on here get a little carried away with thier errors. But imagine if you were sitting at a table with your friends having a friendly discussion and everytime someone stuttered or pronounced a word incorrectly, the converstation was stopped so that person or word could be corrected.
The internet and especially a site like this should not be exclusive to those who are excellent spellers & have nice grammer skills. Also remember some people we talk to on here do not speak english as their first language.

I no xactly wot u mean. I get quite anal about this sometimes, when writing text messages I like to include the apostrophe in ‘phone and ‘fridge. However some of my spelling has much to be desired. By the way kristinatriva, Internet should be written with a capital ‘I’.

Why did that need approval?

Cause your still fairly new, that will happen sometimes. It will decrease more and more.

Thanks My3sons4ever, I’ve also noticed the word that in another context could be considered a bit naughty.

IMAO i kno what u mean, tis terrible on the net ain’t it?

No, seriously I do understand what you mean but also you have to account text messaging for these grammatical and spelling errors as well. I’ve lost faith in people using proper English, mainly due to the Americans and their use of ‘z’ instead of ’s’.

I believe it was Ben Franklin that said, “I can not trust a man that can only figure out one way to spell a word”.

But that being said, the chat room, text message, techno world we live in has changed the face of English. I’m pretty sure you can now purchase books that will provide the definitions of most acronyms. I believe it will eventually end up in mainstream dictonaries (i.e. Webster), if it has not already.

In answer to your question. Good luck, I don’t think will have much luck. You might try writing a book to combat that next Dummy book; “Chat lingo and emoticons for Dummies”.
Bright blessings ~ R

Ahhhhh I see where you are coming from … Indeed that is a shame :((

I think alot of it is the results of the reading by 9 program where kids learned to read just by recognition & wrote essays & book reports without any correction or error.

LOL… I raed the same thnig Heather. I fuond it amzaing that if the frist letter, and the lsat cuople of letters were in the rhgit place it could still be raed - seen by the brian and undresotod.
~Rich

As long as you can understand it, and there not writing anything serious, why does it matter?

I used to be more anal about it, but there comes a point when proper punctuation and capitalization get in the way of quick typing, especially when chatting. I agree though, it’s so ridiculous on this site. The way I see it is, if you want help, you should make yourself clear, and when I see horrible grammar it turns me off and I don’t want to read anymore. I just don’t take that person as seriously because they don’t take their post seriously enough to make an effort to not sound like complete idiots.

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lol that’s not just bad spelling thats also 1337 :p
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Umm, a little booze and fast fingers is REALLY what has happened!