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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
youre getting old, dyslexia is a common problem these days  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I struggle to read things that aren't punctuated properly, but ai appreciate that we are all different, there are people out there that might have a learning dis such as dyslexia. So I just scroll on by and not let it affect me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Given that Fab has a spell-check built in there's no excuse for spelling mistakes really and 'text speak' just looks like you can't be bothered.*
*of course, if someone has dyslexia or some other such condition which impacts on someone's writing, then that is a different matter. |
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"I struggle to read things that aren't punctuated properly, but ai appreciate that we are all different, there are people out there that might have a learning dis such as dyslexia. So I just scroll on by and not let it affect me "
This! |
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
It's just plain lazy...and text speak is even worse, though I guess the latter is definitely an age thing! Bad grammar also makes things difficult to read. I must admit though, I do sometimes use 'lol' and 'btw' even though i'm not keen...youve just gotta stay wi the times though innit! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
It worries me. Not text speak or typos. But grown adults who cannot spell basic words. I'm not talking about dyslexia. I'm talking about an inability to construct a sentence. |
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Bad spelling can be because of auto spelling or bad grammar..
It doesn't bother me unless it's ridiculous rambling..
Not everyone had a great education or have other issues but there is a spelling police eager to pounce |
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The Skills for Life survey on the early noughties had a figure of just under half the adult population with literacy skills below A*-C GCSE, as it was then. (Over 50% for maths.)
Given that in these social media days we probably see more of people's writing than ever before, then it's not a surprise to me that we see many people here with poor literacy skills. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
Yep. I mean FFS how hard is it to use real words instead of abbreviations? IDK
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
Sometimes it annoys me. I work hard on my English, and it's a difficult enough language in the first place. My current dislike is "T's and C's". What's wrong with saying or writing "terms and conditions"? It's really not that difficult! Saying that, most languages evolve, and words change their meanings over time. |
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"The Skills for Life survey on the early noughties had a figure of just under half the adult population with literacy skills below A*-C GCSE, as it was then. (Over 50% for maths.)
Given that in these social media days we probably see more of people's writing than ever before, then it's not a surprise to me that we see many people here with poor literacy skills. "
Yes. We're just much more aware of how badly education systems have failed some people, and how lazy others are.
(Of course dyslexia, dyspraxia, and various other learning disabilities and neurological differences exist, but it's a fraction of those whose writing is difficult to decipher) |
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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago
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"The Skills for Life survey on the early noughties had a figure of just under half the adult population with literacy skills below A*-C GCSE, as it was then. (Over 50% for maths.)
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Yes, I remember seeing a statistic that something like 44% of people leave school with the reading and writing skills expected of an 11-year-old. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Does it annoy you seeing things deliberately mistyped or shortened? Should spell checker come as standard or am I just getting old ? "
Simple spelling mistakes annoy us. When you mistype or can't spell the town you live in..... But the absolute worst is people selling stuff "I brought this last week but it doesn't fit".
No, you BOUGHT it... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do try to keep my pedantic tendencies under control as I'm aware a lot of people post from their phones, and phones have a habit of sabotaging spelling!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Actually half the time it's spellchecker that screws it up...winds me right up as often I post message without re reading it to find spellcheck has altered something..bugger  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Skills for Life survey on the early noughties had a figure of just under half the adult population with literacy skills below A*-C GCSE, as it was then. (Over 50% for maths.)
Given that in these social media days we probably see more of people's writing than ever before, then it's not a surprise to me that we see many people here with poor literacy skills. "
i walked out the exam when they let us have a smoke break |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I wouldn't say it annoys me and the odd word misspelt rarely bothers me but if a sentence is littered with them or text speech I quickly switch off to someone and will end a conversation and move on. |
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I'd have thought if you were getting old you'd have a hard copy dictionary and thesaurus 
