Spelling
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Sometimes it may be a deliberate attempt to thwart certain searches, or to change a word to jibberish for the purpose of deniability?
Sometimes it may just be the difficulty of spelling under various influences...
Sometimes it may just be the difficulty of spelling under various influences...
Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
There are many possibilities but in addition to illiteracy / stupidity it strikes me that some people try to spell incorrectly just to make a point. Also for a generation that's used to short forms for SMS ("u" instead of "you", "4" instead of "for"), it may be a natural extension when writing for real that phonetic spellings as opposed to natural spelling may creep in. (I'm just guessing here.)
Nonetheless, poor spelling is something I personally find quite annoying. Typos are one thing, but outright bad spelling is something I find inexcusable in a land where basic education is generally treated as a right.
Nonetheless, poor spelling is something I personally find quite annoying. Typos are one thing, but outright bad spelling is something I find inexcusable in a land where basic education is generally treated as a right.
I don't believe it is an obvious attempt to thwart anything....I notice on facebook (and here for that matter) that many people just can't spell worth shit. Same goes for punctuation and grammar.
Just go to minnieapple's thread a while back where she was looking for career advice. The spelling etc was atrocious there. IMO there is no reason for this considering how spell check is everywhere.
Here's a recent one from facebook that immediately comes to mind: a woman was talking about how guys stare at her boobs when they talk to her and she said (no word of a lie) that she "didn't like being looked at like a piece of stake" So, me being the smartass, I said "well, I find it had to believe that anyone would stare at a wooden post sharpened at one end....lol
Just go to minnieapple's thread a while back where she was looking for career advice. The spelling etc was atrocious there. IMO there is no reason for this considering how spell check is everywhere.
Here's a recent one from facebook that immediately comes to mind: a woman was talking about how guys stare at her boobs when they talk to her and she said (no word of a lie) that she "didn't like being looked at like a piece of stake" So, me being the smartass, I said "well, I find it had to believe that anyone would stare at a wooden post sharpened at one end....lol
tboy said:
I can understand it on Facebook with all the teenagers, but I find exactly the same thing on dating website profiles. I'm not talking about teenagers here, but middle aged women in their 40s. Here they are, presenting themselves and trying to entice you into contacting them, but their profiles look like they were written by an 8 year old. Frankly, I feel embarrassed for them.
