Voyager EMH
Slipper Wearing Plucker of Pheasants
This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Who was that guy who only posted when he could pick up on a spelling mistake? Forgotten his name but he seems to have disappeared thankfully. He was very irritatingView attachment 36450
Seriously, I do not want to see members being criticised for spelling or grammar.
Those dishing out any criticism are likely to get Fraggered.
Who was that guy who only posted when he could pick up on a spelling mistake? Forgotten his name but he seems to have disappeared thankfully. He was very irritating
He got Fraggered ??
Who was that guy who only posted when he could pick up on a spelling mistake? Forgotten his name but he seems to have disappeared thankfully. He was very irritating
As long as we all understand wot each ov us going on about, wots the prob? We're 'avin a chat, not trying to pass exams. In my lasts two posts 'ere, I was trying to take the mick out of the pedants. I fink they calls it "irony".
The thing about this is that it's completely needless nowadays. It was invented when text messages were 10p and there was a character limit, so kids wanted to get more text into the message so it wouldn't go onto a second message and cost them more. Nowadays texts are unlimited on most contracts, or people use WhatsApp anyway which has no extra charges, so it doesn't save money, and with predictive text including swipekeys, it doesn't save any time typing it either. If I was to write that way it would actually take me longer to think of the textspeak version than the normal English version. So really, this way of writing should have died out by now.I hate spelling and grammar police, up to a point. Colloquial speak in a written message or text speak - sorry but it just grates with me. Colloquial speak is great when spoken but in a written message its just cwap.
One of my best mates has dyslexia, and I know from conversations how sensitive he is to being pulled up about his emails/engineering reports. It wouldn't even cross my mind to 'police' someone's grammar/spelling. But the m8/g8 text speak... I won't even reply to a text I receive in this format. I know its me and my response to it - I'm an old git.
At the end of the day, what is more important? The 100% correctly spelled, grammatically message about the colour of a table cloth or the one with the odd mistake which highlights a serious issue?
I hate spelling and grammar police, up to a point. Colloquial speak in a written message or text speak - sorry but it just grates with me. Colloquial speak is great when spoken but in a written message its just cwap.
One of my best mates has dyslexia, and I know from conversations how sensitive he is to being pulled up about his emails/engineering reports. It wouldn't even cross my mind to 'police' someone's grammar/spelling. But the m8/g8 text speak... I won't even reply to a text I receive in this format. I know its me and my response to it - I'm an old git.
At the end of the day, what is more important? The 100% correctly spelled, grammatically message about the colour of a table cloth or the one with the odd mistake which highlights a serious issue?
Those dishing out any criticism are likely to get Fraggered.
I feel suitably chastened. I shall endeavour to be more careful in my choice of words and phrases in order to be more considerate to those who might read my musings. In this I am sincere.I hate spelling and grammar police, up to a point. Colloquial speak in a written message or text speak - sorry but it just grates with me. Colloquial speak is great when spoken but in a written message its just cwap.
One of my best mates has dyslexia, and I know from conversations how sensitive he is to being pulled up about his emails/engineering reports. It wouldn't even cross my mind to 'police' someone's grammar/spelling. But the m8/g8 text speak... I won't even reply to a text I receive in this format. I know its me and my response to it - I'm an old git.
At the end of the day, what is more important? The 100% correctly spelled, grammatically message about the colour of a table cloth or the one with the odd mistake which highlights a serious issue?