Drives me bloody mental too!     I don't even think it's dyslexia or anything most of the time: it's just laziness and ignorance: people not being arsed to spell properly.  It's often the same people who say 'pacific' instead of 'specific' and 'I don't NO,' instead of 'I don't KNOW.'  ARGGHHH!!! 

Don't worry, Cariad will round them all up and kick their arses for you.

pees me off as well. Also when watching TV- someone says" look at this Drawring" It's Drawing FGS.

It doesn't bother me *shrugs*

*tuts*

I also say innit instead of isn't it.

ta instead of thanks

pooter instead of computer



shoot me now!

im just not perfect, i cant help it, i int that good at writing

It doesn't really matter. As long as people get the message across. English is a rich and evolving language! IMO.

It's "would've" that's caused it.  People see/hear "would've" and think "would of" rather than twigging it's "would have" contracted.

I find it far less annoying than "chimley" which makes me twitch.

Or "as" for "has" which is spreading like an epidemic. Still, I have to double check affect/effect every bloody time so I'm no one to talk

It does bother me. can we get rid if yhe gt goof

I say innit for comic value and ta as an acceptable abbreviation of thank you. I haven't managed 'pooter' but I know you know what the word is it's just misunderstanding the very basics of English that gets my goat. If I had a goat. Oh fekk, I've become what I hate 

oh that one is tricky!!


and, if I am writing something formal then I will stop to consider which I should use...   I will proof read what I type..

but I don't see the need for formality on here 

It does me!  GRRRRRR 

I can get away with most things, but that.............no, sorry 

actually...  though I have committed the sin of typing 'could of' on here..   in reality I say could've or could have.   I am aware of the correct usage..    

and I have always used there, their & they're correctly..    til the last year or two on here.. when every now & then I notice I have used the wrong one!

like I said earlier...   I think its because when I am on here its my downtime..   relaxing time (supposedly)..    so faux pas's do happen!  


(ok...  I have no idea if the plural of faux pas is correct with an apostrophe s..      feel free to correct me if that is wrong..   I don't think I have ever needed to refer to multiple faux pas before! )

Would've, could've, should've is ok by me. Or would have, could have, should have 

OF NOOOOOOO!!!!

Quite right Prom
Everyone knows it's not should of/would of/could of.
It's shoulda woulda coulda innit

If you pop over to the Malawi/farting thread you can steal my Dad's goat.
It's nee botha.

Deadly serious for a second, I would fluppin' LOVE to be taught about punctuation, I have not got a clue about commas, semi colons make my brain melt.  I was not taught this stuff at all.  I wasn't taught any of it...in my era they only cared about spelling and ideas (good things, but not the only things) and it does my bloody head in when I hear about "lefty dumbed down teaching" coz all my schooling was under Thatch and Major....so they can take their lefty teaching method bollox and shove it.

I am still waiting to have capital letters explained to me, I figured that one out for myself.

It's "would 'ave!"

Why though?

With me it relates back to my education. A clip round the ear if the spelling or punctuation was wrong.

Yep. Well you know me, can't type for (I typoed that as trype, how apt! ) for love nor money, so I'm not arsed so much on here, I think forums (fora!-for the pedants ) are an informal "chatting" style of communication.

I've often seen stuff like this :'What is the reasons why they do that?'

Using singular with a plural. *cringe*

I boarded at a private school, the head mistress was called Mrs Macbeth

Couldn't care less how some one types as long as I can understand what they are saying.
Am partial to a lil summat meself

I know perfectly well which there, their or they're to use ........but my typing fingers work faster than my brain sometimes and mistakes happen.

I'm a self confessed compulsive edit addict though, so when I notice, I change it quick, but I imagine some people may type the wrong one and just think sod it.....I don't think you can always assume they are unaware of the correct usage.

As for "pacific" I'm not sure I've seen anyone type that in error .....(I'd love to though! ).. but I know I find it damn hard to say "specific" in RL.  I have to pause to think it through before I say it, not because I don't know what it is..... but just because my mouth refuses to play along!  I have the same problem with "Statisitics" and it's one of the main reasons I gave up my childhood dream of being a Statistician.

Me and the little 'un have this routine.  He says " I brought" I say "No, you took"...he says "I'm bringing" I say "No, you're taking"...he stamps his foot, sighs and asks me to explain the difference.


I can't.

I can't explain it, I KNOW but I have no idea how the frick I know, or even why.  If I ever get stabby/shouty over my horrendous education, it's times like this.  Thank God I was only ever let loose on primary kids in a classroom coz I'd be stumped with older bairns.

*stand up*

My name is Ducky and I'm an edit-aholic. I have edited my previous post three times so far.

 

Back in the day I was taught Linguistics at Uni by David Crystal. Even then he was incredibly relaxed about these things and saw language and spelling as an ever shifting thing. In fact I believe, even at his age now, he has embraced the revolutionary impact on language and communication of text speak! 

I flunked Linguistics.

phenomenon   <-   I really struggle to say that..

Careful with that editing thing, it's a slippery slop to RANDOM caps and unnecessary underlining

evening Xochi! 


I am not keen on text speak!      I insist my kids have their phones on predictive text so that they don't slip into text speak

Because it's not should of!!!!..........sorry but this really gets my goat, as I said I can live with the rest of it

Suppose if the message gets across, then all is well. It all adds to the intrigue of whom the posters may be and from what background.

I can't say Birmingham, Just really can't get my head or tongue round it. To pronounce it correctly means I have to put on a fake Brummie accent, and no one wants that

EDITED to correct SLOP to SLOPE....hahahah

Not necessarily....as the plethora of multi and shared ID's on here can demonstrate

As Alan Partridge would say 'this country' 

Right- i is of too bed now sew i bid yew al goodnite.