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Having just read a thread and posters talking about *confirmation*. Please get it right, it is not a strange word, conformation is mentioned a lot in the horse world, confirmation is mentioned a lot in another world.:mad:
 
I can confirm that in order to conform, in the horsey world, it will be more usual to refer to conformation than confirmation. However that confirmation only confirms that confirmation is more usually referred to in a religious or affirmative way.
 
jemima*askin said:
I can confirm that in order to conform, in the horsey world, it will be more usual to refer to conformation than confirmation. However that confirmation only confirms that confirmation is more usually referred to in a religious or affirmative way.
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Very good, excellent!
 
Is it really that important - you know what the poster was talking about - and so did everyone else. Spelling isn't everyone's strong point.
 
EllenJay said:
Is it really that important - you know what the poster was talking about - and so did everyone else. Spelling isn't everyone's strong point.
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Actually they are two words with completely different meanings, so yes, I do think it's relatively important! It's not actually a dig at people who can't spell, but they mean different things.
 
I get wound up by people advertizing foals which are "out of" such and such a STALLION. :eek3:

Oh and laminitus grates a little too. ;)
 
FionaM12 said:
I get wound up by people advertizing foals which are "out of" such and such a STALLION. :eek3:
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Now we are writing so many posts on devices with a auto correct, spellings just get altered, punctuation gets missed (see above!) I try to only get irritated by the things that really matter. Life is far to short!
 
Life would indeed be far too short if, say, doctors and pharmacists had the same cavalier attitude to correct spelling and accuracy.
 
It's a slippery downward slope when the general opinion is that it doesn't matter and is not important.
Most bad spelling is not dyslexia at all, just an excuse.

Inaccurate spelling can and does change the meaning of a word completely, as example in OP. Although I agree the use of spell check sometimes is the problem. My phone often thinks it knows better than me what I'm trying to say.

Worse than that for me though is the use of a completely different word.
For example.

She should OF left it alone.
Instead of
She should HAVE left it alone.

How on earth does someone get to adult or even teens without that being corrected.

When I was at school, my mother would comment that the standard of education was getting poorer. She would not believe the end result of state education today.
 
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ribbons said:
It's a slippery downward slope when the general opinion is that it doesn't matter and is not important.
Most bad spelling is not dyslexia at all, just an excuse.

Inaccurate spelling can and does change the meaning of a word completely, as example in OP. Although I agree the use of spell check sometimes is the problem. My phone often thinks it knows better than me what I'm trying to say.

Worse than that for me though is the use of a completely different word.
For example.

She should OF left it alone.
Instead of
She should HAVE left it alone.

How on earth does someone get to adult or even teens without that being corrected.
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I didn't really get it until I saw

I have
he had
she had
they had
I could have

I of
he offed
she offed
they offed
I could of

Then I remembered it!

Spelling does matter quite a bit.
 
I agree that its often unhelpful telling students the most important thing is that they express themselves and that text speak is fine but language evolves, it always has and it always will. It is part of what makes it great.

I often hear people using the phrase 'dumbing down,' when talking about the state of English today, seemingly without caring that the Americans turned a noun into a verb to invent the phrase.

Doctors writing prescriptions and someone writing a forum post where the meaning is obvious from the context are completely different and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

Loads of people would feel bullied if they had inspired this thread and it isn't really peoples fault the education system abandoned grammar lessons sometime in the dark ages and they consequently cant use 'fewer' and 'less' correctly.
 
Isn't correct spelling a little bit like correct attire for showing/competing/hunting? Who cares as long as its safe and you feel comfortable!
 
Spelling mistakes don't bother me as such, it happens. Letters getting mixed up or missed out, like 'wierd' instead of 'weird'. It's when the word gets transformed that I get irritated.

Like when people spell 'gorgeous' as 'gawjus'. Or 'of' becomes 'ov'. Drives me mad.
 
This forum teaches people a lot of things. I don't see why people cannot be corrected when they consistently use the wrong term. Otherwise they will continue through life thinking the wrong thing.

It amazes me how many times people use the totally wrong terms or phrases completely not understanding what they mean not just typos or misspelling which we can all do dyslexia or not.

Sometimes I've had to look up spelling of words because I've seen it written in so many ways in here my brain can no longer recognise which one is correct "despair" being one of them. :D
 
ribbons said:
It's a slippery downward slope when the general opinion is that it doesn't matter and is not important.
Most bad spelling is not dyslexia at all, just an excuse.

Inaccurate spelling can and does change the meaning of a word completely, as example in OP. Although I agree the use of spell check sometimes is the problem. My phone often thinks it knows better than me what I'm trying to say.

Worse than that for me though is the use of a completely different word.
For example.

She should OF left it alone.
Instead of
She should HAVE left it alone.

How on earth does someone get to adult or even teens without that being corrected.

When I was at school, my mother would comment that the standard of education was getting poorer. She would not believe the end result of state education today.
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Totally agree, should OF, drives me insane!!
 
Anna* said:
Now we are writing so many posts on devices with a auto correct, spellings just get altered, punctuation gets missed (see above!)
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How could "by" become "out of" through auto correct? :confused3:

Saying a foal is "out of" a stallion is not punctuation or a spelling mistake (which happens to everyone), it's using the totally wrong term, doesn't make sense and is biologically impossible! :D
 
jemima*askin said:
*whispers*

It's reckon, not recon:)
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I'm dyslexic and I KNOW I get that word wrong so I asked my computer and it said it was ok. I must have accidentily added it to the dictionary. Glad HHO spotted that as I'm out on my imaginargy horse with my imaginary pack of job hounds sailing over hedges job hunting at the moment.

*throws JA the customary food and beatles off to talk to spell checker*
 
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