newbury
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I realize this is a world wide forum and many members do not have English as their native language.
However, for the "run of the mill" TBN'er I think that most of us have made it at least partially thru high school and I know we ALL have computers.
Yet frequently I read posts with atrocious spelling and/or no punctuation. Usually one can "read around" poor spelling but sometimes misspelled words can totally change the meaning. On my system if I misspell a word spell check underlines it in red. And I see a lot of red.
Poor punctuation, to me, is worse. Often if I see a post with 10 or more lines and no periods or carriage returns I'll ignore the post until someone else cleans it up.
Recently I had an instance (not on TBN) where I was "flamed", the poster put it all in one big block and misspelled frequently, but not consistently. Then after I replied, showing I had not done what he thought I had done and used his own misspellings in quotes, he took offense in a reply. Then afterwards he PM'd me that after he reread my original post he realized he had misinterpreted it and was wrong, but he couldn't spell and it was too late, "can't teach an old dog new tricks".
Are we doing wrong when we attempt to get posters to spell and use punctuation?
For those who don't think so:
However, for the "run of the mill" TBN'er I think that most of us have made it at least partially thru high school and I know we ALL have computers.
Yet frequently I read posts with atrocious spelling and/or no punctuation. Usually one can "read around" poor spelling but sometimes misspelled words can totally change the meaning. On my system if I misspell a word spell check underlines it in red. And I see a lot of red.
Poor punctuation, to me, is worse. Often if I see a post with 10 or more lines and no periods or carriage returns I'll ignore the post until someone else cleans it up.
Recently I had an instance (not on TBN) where I was "flamed", the poster put it all in one big block and misspelled frequently, but not consistently. Then after I replied, showing I had not done what he thought I had done and used his own misspellings in quotes, he took offense in a reply. Then afterwards he PM'd me that after he reread my original post he realized he had misinterpreted it and was wrong, but he couldn't spell and it was too late, "can't teach an old dog new tricks".
Are we doing wrong when we attempt to get posters to spell and use punctuation?
For those who don't think so:
I realize this is a world wide forum and many mebers do not have English as their native language however, for the "run of the mill" TBN'er I think that most of us have made it at least partially thru high school and I know we ALL have computers yet freqently I read posts with atrocous spelling and/or no puntuation. Usually one can "read around" poor spelling but sometimes mispelled words can totally change the meaning on my system if I mispell a word spellheck underlines it in red poor and I see a lot of red punctation, to me, is worse often if I see a post with 10 or more lines and no periods or cariage returns I'll ignore the post until someone else cleans it up recently I had an intance (not on TBN) where I was "flamed", the poster put it all in one big block and mispelled freqently, but not consistently then after I replied, showing I had not done what he thought I had done and used his own mispellings in quotes, he took ofense in a reply then afterwards he PM'd me that after he reread my original post he realized he had misinterpreted it and was wrong but he couldn't spell and it was too late "can't teach an old dog new tricks are we doing wrong when we attempt to get posters to spell and use punctuation?