Thursday, May 12, 2011
Facebook Spellcheck
Yesterday I posted on an author's Facebook page that I enjoyed her book and jokingly chided her for the cliffhanger ending [which I secretly and sadistically enjoy. Not sure why I like the torture of those endings, but I do. I'm weird. I know.] Anyhow, someone [needlessly] jumped to the author's defense and her reply was saturated with spelling errors. I didn't call her out for it; it's a pointless argument. For all I know, English is her second language. Or maybe she just doesn't care. But the fact that she's defending someone's writing style, but doesn't take the time to fix the red spelling errors seems a little off to me. Here's how it went [I've deleted the poster's name and profile picture. I put the errors in bold, not because I think y'all are stupid*]:
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Infested, lol! Don't get me started on spelling errors. More than once I see errors on people's posts and comments and think "it's your language people! get with the programme!" I mean...
Am I expecting too much? Is it wrong to want the general education level of society to be just a tad higher? Anyway, I'll get off my high horse.
That is just too funny. Those spelling errors don't drive me too crazy, (since I am a terrible speller), but you are correct. If you are commenting on a author's page, try to get it right.
I do hate to see the people use "gooooing to bed" or "with myyyyy booyfriendddd". Do more letters add something I am not aware of? Or am I just old?
Deniz,
I don't think it's asking too much at all. I've accidentally misspelled things, and corrected them. Maybe I'm being neurotic about it, but her posts were over the top with errors. What must the author think of their readers?
Kyetra,
I hope it's not that we're old, lol. I can't stand the extra letters either. Just the other day, I noticed a car in the hospital parking lot, covered in pollen. On the back windshield someone wrote, "Pls Pls waash meee." If you took the extra letters you could almost spell out the first two please[s]. Did that save any time? No. It just looks stupid.
It sometimes enrages me to see all that language abuse!
As an English teacher (English as a foreign language, mind you) I can't stand it! Especially if the person doing it is a monthertongue speaker!
It seems so utterly lazy and careless to me! It's your language, your way of communicating, for crying out loud!
So yeah, I am bothered! And yes, I do read over my posts and blogs, but....I sometimes don't get all of the mistakes out.
we're only human.
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