Perhaps it\'s just me, and I think I\'ve read a thread on this before but just can\'t find it, but it\'s a real turn off when I get an email in my mailbox that\'s positively FULL of typos, bad spelling, and horrendous grammar.
I can handle a little misspelling here and there, but it really makes a bad impression on me if a person or couple can\'t even manage to use the built in spell check. I haven\'t had this problem so much on this site, but on another I just got an email that included the following:
\"love to fuck pergant females.he would love to fuck one in the ass.he 34 6\'4\"215 brown blue long lasting.so he free too meet u anytime u like\"
How much effort would it have taken this person to articulate themselves better and actually make me interested in meeting them? I don\'t like to sound awfully judgemental, but if you can\'t take the time to type an extra two letters to write \'you\' instead of u (it\'s not like you\'re paying by the letter) then I don\'t expect I can trust you to take the extra time to please me over a quick unsatisfactory fuck.
Am I overreacting?
~Ang
I can handle a little misspelling here and there, but it really makes a bad impression on me if a person or couple can\'t even manage to use the built in spell check. I haven\'t had this problem so much on this site, but on another I just got an email that included the following:
\"love to fuck pergant females.he would love to fuck one in the ass.he 34 6\'4\"215 brown blue long lasting.so he free too meet u anytime u like\"
How much effort would it have taken this person to articulate themselves better and actually make me interested in meeting them? I don\'t like to sound awfully judgemental, but if you can\'t take the time to type an extra two letters to write \'you\' instead of u (it\'s not like you\'re paying by the letter) then I don\'t expect I can trust you to take the extra time to please me over a quick unsatisfactory fuck.
Am I overreacting?
~Ang
It\'s not just you. I got that alot also on every website i have joined. sometimes it\'s hard to \"read between the lines\" Most email boxes have a spell checker such as the one that only works sometimes for me at the bottom of this box.
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We agre y Kant peeple spill rite. drives a pursun nutz. LOL
Ok seriously. We agree that it doesn\'t take that much to use the spell check or to make sure you look a word up if you can\'t spell it right. We look for folks that are much like we are.
In other words \"aint lookin for anybuddy who aint had no broughten up. LOL
Ok seriously. We agree that it doesn\'t take that much to use the spell check or to make sure you look a word up if you can\'t spell it right. We look for folks that are much like we are.
In other words \"aint lookin for anybuddy who aint had no broughten up. LOL
You are all right . It makes you wonder what kind of schools they attended. I have a hard time keeping my fingers on the same track as my brain but at least I can spell. Donot rite if u kant speell.....LOL. I do have to say that I do use slang sometimes but it\'s in a fun manner.
I agree, I get annoyed at the newspapers now......
They once were the epitome of accuracy, both insofar as the news went AND its presentation.....
Now they are rife with typos, misinformation etc.......
My friends have a running gag/bet with me as to how long it takes me to find and how many errors I will find when I look at a menu, advertisement etc.......
I have a store near me where the name is spelled THREE DIFFERENT ways on THREE DIFFERENT signs......
I\'m not even referring to hand written signs.... I\'ve seen PROFESSIONAL signs, most likely made with copy given to the signmakers that are made with the errors uncorrected.....
It\'s a sad commentary on the educational system that we have..... and unfortunately, I only see it deteriorating......
Thanks for letting me rant a bit about this.....
They once were the epitome of accuracy, both insofar as the news went AND its presentation.....
Now they are rife with typos, misinformation etc.......
My friends have a running gag/bet with me as to how long it takes me to find and how many errors I will find when I look at a menu, advertisement etc.......
I have a store near me where the name is spelled THREE DIFFERENT ways on THREE DIFFERENT signs......
I\'m not even referring to hand written signs.... I\'ve seen PROFESSIONAL signs, most likely made with copy given to the signmakers that are made with the errors uncorrected.....
It\'s a sad commentary on the educational system that we have..... and unfortunately, I only see it deteriorating......
Thanks for letting me rant a bit about this.....
I\'m glad I\'m not alone in preferring well spoken individuals (or couples, whatever the case may be). I can handle a typo here and there, like I said earlier, especially since many times people make easy mistakes and the hubby is certainly not the best speller in the world either. I can\'t be judgemental of every misspelled word just because I was a spelling bee brat in school.
HOWEVER, I CAN be irritated when people that contact me not only come across looking like idiots in their contact email but also in their profile, which tells me they\'ve put no time into even pretending to be educated. I am a highschool dropout but I am still intelligent and well spoken. How is it that (supposedly) college educated people can\'t even spll two savv der lyfes?
Again, this isn\'t a rant against the occasional mistake in typing. Even I do that. But it\'s a struggle not to respond in a horribly rude and snarky manner when I get contacts that are rife with grammatical pet peeves.
About the newspapers and public signs? I started hating that plenty early - as a freshman in highschool I wrote a letter to the editor about the local Sizzler having spelled sirloin steak wrong - it was a simple error but reading \'sirlion\' every day for over a month irritated me enough that I had to say something. Yep, I can understand where you\'re coming from with mainstream media!!!
Finally, for the record I use lol and lmao and a few other slang abbreviations, but it is one of my pet peeves to be told,
\'u r teh hot pls cn we fuk?\'
or something along those lines.
(To think, I\'m ranting right after a particularly good playtime too - it\'s a topic that\'s near and not so dear to my heart!)
~Ang
HOWEVER, I CAN be irritated when people that contact me not only come across looking like idiots in their contact email but also in their profile, which tells me they\'ve put no time into even pretending to be educated. I am a highschool dropout but I am still intelligent and well spoken. How is it that (supposedly) college educated people can\'t even spll two savv der lyfes?
Again, this isn\'t a rant against the occasional mistake in typing. Even I do that. But it\'s a struggle not to respond in a horribly rude and snarky manner when I get contacts that are rife with grammatical pet peeves.
About the newspapers and public signs? I started hating that plenty early - as a freshman in highschool I wrote a letter to the editor about the local Sizzler having spelled sirloin steak wrong - it was a simple error but reading \'sirlion\' every day for over a month irritated me enough that I had to say something. Yep, I can understand where you\'re coming from with mainstream media!!!
Finally, for the record I use lol and lmao and a few other slang abbreviations, but it is one of my pet peeves to be told,
\'u r teh hot pls cn we fuk?\'
or something along those lines.
(To think, I\'m ranting right after a particularly good playtime too - it\'s a topic that\'s near and not so dear to my heart!)
~Ang
Ang This is funny that we ran across this post just after we commented almost the same thing to you in a previous post. Honestly, we did not see this one before. The Cheezyonez
We see this quite often as well, on many websites as well as in unsolicited Yahoo IMs.
The most inarticulate ones seem to be single males below the age of thirty, and even those who can spell seem to show a remarkable lack of savoir-faire when attempting to express thier desires. I just chalk it up to ignorance, and they usually find thier way to my ignore list unless I am feeling sportive, in which case I answer in Portuguese, Russian, or Klingon.
By answering in an odd language, at least I can have a little fun with the trolls, after all, there is nothing to be gained by getting angry with them, so those of us with a slightly twisted sense of humour and an adequete translator program can entertain ourselves.
The most inarticulate ones seem to be single males below the age of thirty, and even those who can spell seem to show a remarkable lack of savoir-faire when attempting to express thier desires. I just chalk it up to ignorance, and they usually find thier way to my ignore list unless I am feeling sportive, in which case I answer in Portuguese, Russian, or Klingon.
By answering in an odd language, at least I can have a little fun with the trolls, after all, there is nothing to be gained by getting angry with them, so those of us with a slightly twisted sense of humour and an adequete translator program can entertain ourselves.