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spelling correction
stealthwolf:
--- Quote from: SteveP on November 06, 2010, 09:28:08 pm ---At least this way you can public shame people for these most heinous crimes.
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I'm not trying to "out" anyone. I've seen many posts where I could try to correct someone but I generally just ignore it. It is a bugbear of mine but given this place isn't print, we can leave things be! :happy2:
--- Quote from: SteveP on November 06, 2010, 09:28:08 pm ---some consideration that some people do wouldn't go a miss. Using terms like "simple mistakes" aren't great to read when you suffer from something you have very little control over.
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Agreed and I offer my apologies to anyone I unintentionally offended. :grouphug:
RedRobin:
^^^^
I'm very much with stealth on this one. Surely you don't have to be a brain surgeon to be able to recognise which posts are written by those with an unfortunate dyslexia handicap, and the posts written by those who are just plain lazy and/or illiterate. I guess that we shouldn't look down our noses at those who may be illiterate or who say they can't spell but can't people learn to spell? - Not just for the sake of this forum but for their own benefit.
Having dyslexia = Not having control and so we should all be tolerant and sympathetic.
txt-speak / total lack of punctuation / bad spelling = We all have control over that and should make the effort to do something about it.
It's easy to say that this doesn't matter but it matters a lot when someone uses txt-speak and no punctuation plus the wrong words ("there" instead of "they're" etc) and they then expect others to help them by replying to their posted questions.
Garth:
The brought/bought one is one of the most common on here I have noticed. Does my head in. It's up there with people using YOUR instead of YOU'RE :fighting:
YOUR is something that belongs to you, i.e. "YOUR car is nice"
YOU'RE is an abreviation of you are, i.e. "YOU'RE a genius"
RedRobin:
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I am correct in thinking that "bought/brought" and "your/you're" etc are not examples of dyslexia, am I? [genuine question]
Garth:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on November 07, 2010, 09:21:59 am ---.
I am correct in thinking that "bought/brought" and "your/you're" etc are not examples of dyslexia, am I? [genuine question]
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You are correct. It's just bad use of words.
My old boss was dyslexic and it was great some of the stuff he wrote... even he laughed at most of it. Especially the time when he wrote a note to the general manager asking that he couldn't get in to the chemical room because of the keypad lock and he needed 'axes' (instead of access). The GM came to me and asked if I thought we really did need axes to break the door down in an emergency :grin:
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