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bovverd am i, innit, am i bovverrrd whateva!!
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igreee weelly baddd spelers shoood b sent bak too skool to redoe spelings!! eermm maybe not!!LOL

ooo i do hope you never make a spelling mistake on here,

i take more interest in the content and not the spelling. I would never judge someone on here, or in an ad, on their spelling!!!
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I am Dyslexic but I try very hard to correct my spelling and grammar.
I don't really mind bad spelling on the forum or in ads, no one is prefect but being Dyslexic I find I have to read things 2 or 3 times to make sense of it and if there is bad spelling or grammar mistakes it makes it a lot harder for me.
 
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I can overlook the odd spelling mistake, but consistently bad spelling and grammer does irritate me (and don't even get me started on text speak and lack of punctuation!).
I have some sympathy for people who really are dyslexic, but I think it does sometimes get used as an excuse by people who are lazy rather than dyslexic. Our administrator at work is dyslexic. Because he knows it is a problem he takes extra care to check things and make sure they are correct before he sends anything out.

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Consistent, not consistently. It's grammar with an 'a'. Oh, and there should be no comma before the but, and you shouldn't start a sentence with the word 'because' as it is a conjunctive.
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(sorry)
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LOL Think I deserved it
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Ok. you've got me bang to rights on the consistent (not reading back what I'd written) and the grammar (why I normally spell check everything!).
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and I am a bit addicted to commas!
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In my defence I have just polished off a large glass of wine on an empty stomache!
However, I disagree that you shouldn't ever start a sentence with because. I was taught not to at school (many years ago!) but did some work with the Plain English Society a few years ago and they recon it is ok in modern use of the language. Mind you, I wouldn't use it in a business letter but its good enough for a forum
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im so sorry but i have to say i do love it when people rant about spelling, and then make *mistakes* themselves makes me chuckle!!
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Sometimes it's not the fault of the advertiser but the magazine /web editors instead.

H&H is particularly guilty. Because they work to such tight weekly deadlines they are often rushed and make mistakes. The funniest I ever saw was Jane and Christopher Bartle mis-typed as June and Christopher Burtle - now I'm pretty sure they didn't mis-spell their names!!
 
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im so sorry but i have to say i do love it when people rant about spelling, and then make *mistakes* themselves makes me chuckle!!
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recon / reckon ???i`m confused now,help
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im so sorry but i have to say i do love it when people rant about spelling, and then make *mistakes* themselves makes me chuckle!!
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recon / reckon ???i`m confused now,help
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no wasnt aimed at you cahill just highlighted the second error made by someone ranting about spelling!! sorry if you thought it was aimed at you!!
 
I have an idea!!
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All those who have trouble with spelling/grammar etc could be helped out by the forum.

The could be a special symbol in the signature. This would signify that you would welcome being corrected should you make a spelling error or a screaming grammatical error.

I personally would welcome being corrected. Although I would it to be done nicely not with a huge *sigh* at the beginning of the post. LOL
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What do you all think?

Education the HHO way?
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Sometimes it's not the fault of the advertiser but the magazine /web editors instead.

H&H is particularly guilty. Because they work to such tight weekly deadlines they are often rushed and make mistakes. The funniest I ever saw was Jane and Christopher Bartle mis-typed as June and Christopher Burtle - now I'm pretty sure they didn't mis-spell their names!!

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Yes, H&H are quite bad. I saw a job for a working pupil at a Spud Farm! Should have been stud farm.
 
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recon would not necessarily have been picked up in a spell check as it is a common shortening of reconnoitre.

Actually I don't mind being corrected at all - although I am overly given to typos. Somehow my brain and fingers don't always connect.
 
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no wasnt aimed at you cahill just highlighted the second error made by someone ranting about spelling!! sorry if you thought it was aimed at you!!

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lol lol i dont usually smell that good
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Maybe! But it said to work alongside former medallist and world champion. Do you think there is a potato olympics? Or the spud world cup, who can grow the biggest potato?
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I like to see correct spelling and punctuation/gammer etc. However, in a world where children are still starving, people are getting blown up etc, i don't let it bother me too much. I think there are more important issues to get wound up about.
 
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Maybe! But it said to work alongside former medallist and world champion. Do you think there is a potato olympics? Or the spud world cup, who can grow the biggest potato?
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If there isn't, then there should be!
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i think that if you read correct stuff all the time,it kind of rubs off on you, so really we should make the effort to get it right.
 
off at a tangent here. how can you be a former medallist?
Does that mean you once won a medal but had it taken away from you? (Obviously that would narrow it down, but we can all name names .....)
I think a spud groom would be a fantastic job title.
If you could turnip to a very high standard, and were capable of sole charge, you'd be a well balanced dinner....
 
I am glad someone has brought this to light (thought it was just me who got annoyed by poor spelling!)

It is one of my biggest bug bears in all honesty and many things you see displayed, whether it be an advert or a menu in a pub, have terrible spelling errors and poor use of grammar.

Now I can forgive the odd typo - everyone makes them, but spelling the simplest word incorrectly consistently is just terrible to be honest. I can't stand when people use the wrong there/their/they're or put apostrophes in when there doesn't need to be any.

I think if you're advertising anything for sale where you have to write an advert you should either use spell check or get someone else to 'proof read' it for you. The odd error you can let by but a whole ad of errors would, I'm afraid just make me question the intelligence of the seller. These are privately written ads though so you half expect some errors. What I think is worse is ads in newspapers/magazines (ie H&H) when an ad is full of errors (have a look in the Yorkshire Post one day!). I just feel angry for the person who has paid for that ad when the editor/page producer can't proof-read the details before going to print. I think that's pretty inexcusable.

Feel free to pick at any errors in mine, as I said, we all make them but some go beyond a joke!
 
Yes it's off putting although if you ring an ad through to a magazine publication it could be the person in advertising who can't spell ?

What I find even more annoying is text speak. If my neice texts me I usually have to ring her so she can translate
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Another clasis mistake in horse ads is confirmation rather than conformation
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off at a tangent here. how can you be a former medallist?
Does that mean you once won a medal but had it taken away from you? (Obviously that would narrow it down, but we can all name names .....)
I think a spud groom would be a fantastic job title.
If you could turnip to a very high standard, and were capable of sole charge, you'd be a well balanced dinner....

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PMSL at the way this thread is going - makes a change from all the 'But I'm dyslexic' type rants
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I think you could be a former medalist if the medal is a 'title' as in 'current gold medalist' But I see your point as actually olympic medals are kept by the recipients (in most cases
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That was a bit of a ramble, but what the hell.
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Back on the original topic, I think a lot of errors come from people not reading what they have written. Just did that with my post above & corrected two errors - lol
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off at a tangent here. how can you be a former medallist?
Does that mean you once won a medal but had it taken away from you? (Obviously that would narrow it down, but we can all name names .....)
I think a spud groom would be a fantastic job title.
If you could turnip to a very high standard, and were capable of sole charge, you'd be a well balanced dinner....

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Im not sure the job would be that great though. Grooming spuds for a living? Not really for me. Even if they belonged to someone who once won a medal.
 
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