Kill everyone who can't spell.

[toughdog6789]

I'm fed up with all these posts and scenes where no one knows how to spell. How do these people make scripts when they don't even know how to properly spell the word "the"? This is seriously a problem and it needs to be taken care of.

[Chronos]

Best. Suggestion.

Ever.

You hear that, Mystery? Sleep with one eye open...

[markgangsta]

Good idea.
Its mainly because the forums have seemed to be flooded by illiterate ten year olds.

[Kilinich]

Do you think about non-english-speaking countries?
I really don't care if someone speak incorrectly if I understand what he mean.
So try to walk in my shoes and spell correctly on some foreign language like russian

[Chronos]

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the people who have English as their first language. I can understand if it's not.

[Dakta]

It's completely acceptable to have spelling and grammar mistakes if you're not a native English speaker, but if you are, there is no excuse for not spelling correctly. If someone sees a post, and they can't even read the first line of it, they aren't going to spend the effort to decipher your post.

People don't have to spell everything correctly, and you don't have to be a grammar nazi, but at least use punctuation and basic sentence structure.

Don't make me get some examples of this.

Write your posts with the best spelling you can, and with at least morginally proper grammar, and you will be more likely to be listened to (er.. your posts will be more likely to be read through all the way) And don't forget to group sentences into paragraphs! A little white space here and there makes it much easier to tell which line you're supposed to jump to next, and is easier to read. It also groups thoughts together, which helps make your posts make more sense.

If confused, see Physicsguy's "How To Post" on here or Phunland. That just about ocvers everything you might ever ask about.

[mypseudonym]

I really don't give a crap either way.

"They aren't going to spend the effort to decipher your post"

Ya, you definitely burn a lot of calories doing that (JK in know how bad it gets, Just poking fun ).

BTW "definitely" one of thee most misspelled words ever. (In the English language anyway)

[RicH]

Whut youre probleam dood. Why your be hatin?

I'm technically allowed to post like that because English isn't my first language.

[Dakta]

Stop being a douchebag, you know English fluently.

[Mystery]

It's completely acceptable to have spelling and grammar mistakes if you're not a native English speaker, but if you are, there is no excuse for not spelling correctly.

Ever heard of dyslexia?

[Chronos]

It's completely acceptable to have spelling and grammar mistakes if you're not a native English speaker, but if you are, there is no excuse for not spelling correctly.

Ever heard of dyslexia?

Hey Mystery, ever heard of being an idiot who can't spell?

[Mystery]

I want to highlight on what Kilinich said.
Does it even matter?

[Chronos]

I was actually referring to you, but whatever.

[Mystery]

I'm saying Kilinich makes, you can still understand it so why does it matter?

[Chronos]

Because it causes my OCD to flare up to the point of me wanting to murder people.

[Rideg]

I don't really get why it's such a big deal. Sure it would be alot easier to understand but if you can understand them then what's the problem?

I'm frow sweden and there's alot of other people from non-english countries, so just try to calm down before we get the knives out.

I've got a strange feeling that this topic is going down...

[Nxdt]

Killing people because they can't spell is such an overreaction, everyone makes mistakes. And anyway, you know what they mean so you shouldn't have an issue with their spelling as long as you are able to understand it. If you can't then you need killed.

[Dakta]

This wasn't really a serious suggestion, foo.

Anyways, dyslexia is no excuse. When you're typing, auto-correct should find words, and you can go back over what you say to make sure you didn't epicly fail.

[Chronos]

Yeah, aout-creorct suhold wrok fnie. Sreiously, i'ts not taht hrad to slepl croreltcy, as lnog as you konw waht yu'roe dinog.

I'm probably just either pissed off a bunch of dyslexic people, or helped them read my post and now they love me. I dunno which, but to those who are offended, no oenfsfe. I also just wanted to show that trick that as long as the first and last letters are the same, you can still raed the wrod.

[Nxdt]

Waht i nveer new taht happeend, but it wroks wihch is pertty aewsmoe.
I read up on this and its about how your brain just reads the letters in the word and not the actual word and uses the first and last letters to decide which word it is.

[Dakta]

Yes, your brain reads the shape of the word, meaning the general shape, length, and first/last letters. This is why some people can skim super fast, they are better at reading shapes. It's pretty darn cool.

[Rrobba]

Mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation are natural, they are in most cases mistakes and people should not be punished for them, however, I do not support purposely writing illiterately to annoy others or because they simply don't care.