Iz this spelt rite?

[flwiii]

Marine 1:

BBS stand for Bulletin Board Service.

 

[Gatorboy]

How much attention to spelling do you pay?

Quite a bit.

I never use a spell checker -- if I know I don't know how to spell a word, I look it up in a dictionary. I hated English, and I am a horrible writer, but I do pride myself on my spelling ability.

When some words that are not used that often get misspelled, I overlook it, but when common words that people use everyday are spelled incorrectly, there is no reason for it. The same words are used correctly by others, and when they read the posts on here, doesn't it sink in?

I'm not referring to when someone hits the wrong key, or hits a key by accident and doesn't catch it -- I'm talking about the same words misspelled over and over again.

 

[Marine1]

Flwiii,

Wow! was I wrong. At least I was close. There were 2B's and an S.
Thanks for the insight.
All I know is that I am fluent in two languages. English and Jibberish.

 

[MikePA]

Misuse of words (see below) I've always assumed are people being in a hurry.

Your - You're
Their - They're - There

A new one,

wasting - waisting

 

[PitbullMidwest]

.. they want to go to phonetic spelling...

Shouldn't "phonetic" start with an "f" ?

 

[goaliedad]

One of the radio stations I work for is a talk station- each week they do a segment with a retired English Professor about spelling, word meanings and origin and grammar and punctuation. The "Prof" has a saying that he uses to open the show- not sure if this is a direct quote or not- This show is about the English Language and it's rules. Not that grammar is a scared cow, but it is how we communicate. The limits of my language are the limits of my world" I work in sales- it is extermely important that I express myself clearly and accurately. As many have pointed out, in personal communications things may be lax, in business, it better be clear. In this forum, sometimes I have problems following someone's thoughts. Then I say, yes spelling is important- if I can follow the thread- no harm no foul. Now, where is that spell check button?

 

[Gatorboy]

A new one,

wasting - waisting

How about those using the word loose when they mean lose.

Loose - NOT tight
Lose - Did NOT win

 

[BillyP]

The other thing that I don't like is how we as a society have accepted the abbreviation of most everything. Thanks to Instant Messaging everything is abbreviated. LOL, BTW, DW, DH, IMHO just to point out a very few.
Just spell the word so people know what you are saying.

Kind of like FEL and HST huh?

 

[AndyM]

How about those using the word loose when they mean lose.

Loose - NOT tight
Lose - Did NOT win

This one bugs me most...

It's - Its

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Well, I started this mess, I aught to get my say in before it's over.

I'm not a great speller. I do TRY. I keep a dictionary handy. I use my spellcheck on work related "stuff". On websites like this, I don't take enough time to proof my "work", but that's generally do to being in a big rush. (Trying to get my job done and still have time to play)

What I've learned;

NEVER make a final judgement on someone by just their spelling. It MAY look bad to spell Hydraulic as hidrualik or any of the 4973 ways I've seen it spelled, but that doesn't on it's own mean anyone is "dim". The two "smartest" guys I've ever met would appear to most folks to be real dufus material.

Get the important points right in any conversation.

Sometimes the brightest of the bright play the role of rube just to keep others off guard.

It's not what you know that's important, it's what you DON'T know. You never know how much you don't know. And you may never know just how wise the "big dummy" next to you is.

In closing, I have to laugh at myself for the reason I started this thread. I was reading someones post, saw a misspelled word, realized it was misspelled, then saw in one of my OWN posts where I'd used the same misspeling. What a stooge this other guy was. And mine was just a simple mistake.