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  1. #11
    oldbuck40

  2. #12
    vee-driven
    My god! How can adults survive in our society while having the spelling aptitude of a 4th grader? Here is a recent post from someone on this forum:
    (I am not disrespecting the content of the post, because I surely empathize with it)
    whogivesafuk!

  3. #13
    Kilrtoy
    Like most of us, I would guess most people just type away what they are thinking and never spell check what they typed. I do it all the time

  4. #14
    fatboy95
    Does it really matter? In the next few years we will be a country of many languages after the liberals take over. I think from reading the post he is getting ready to write in a combination of chinese, arabic, spanish, coors light, jim beam and valley girl.

  5. #15
    RitcheyRch
    That plus so many people are using instant messengers and having to type in short hand that they continue to type that way.
    Like most of us, I would guess most people just type away what they are thinking and never spell check what they typed. I do it all the time

  6. #16
    Biglue
    I figure maybe people type too fast or don't know how. I don't know how to type for shit, but I always go back & try to fix any mistakes before clicking submit. Proofreading for content is key also. I don't know how many times I've gone back & reworded something, ummmm, just because, LOL....
    Yeah, I've spent entirely too much time proofreading my posts.
    There is one poster whom I will not name drop on but man his posting is right down mean. I am costantly having a hard time trying to decifer through his rambling. There's no clear start or endings to his sentences. Good god does he come off like a total putz.

  7. #17
    Quest4Fun
    My god! How can adults survive in our society while having the spelling aptitude of a 4th grader? Here is a recent post from someone on this forum:
    (I am not disrespecting the content of the post, because I surely empathize with it)
    Ion, you should mis-spell some transom names and re-arrange some AZ #'s while airbrushing on some of the ***boat peeps boats - that will teach us all to use our spell check.

  8. #18
    ratso
    Ion, you should mis-spell some transom names and re-arrange some AZ #'s while airbrushing on some of the ***boat peeps boats - that will teach us all to use our spell check.
    Some of them would never notice...

  9. #19
    HM
    I agree that the spelling at times can be painful to read. I was in a boating club that had a newsletter that had so many errors that I didn't renew purely because of the newsletter. I don't like to pay for bad engish.
    But, I try not to let spelling get in the way of the communication. I used to have an anecdotal story about bad spelling where a new sales guy was cleaning up in a territory that had been thought to be dead. His writing was atrocious and many people in the company wanted him let go because he made their company look stupid while failing to realize that he was the most profitable sales guy in the company's history. The president of the company wrote a memo, purposely using bad grammar and spelling to make his point....that 'Sales' was the salesman top priority, not spelling. Some of the loudest condemners of the spelling happen to be some of the worst sales guys and that they were the one's that had something to learn. They could hire this guy an assistant to clean up "written" communication because he was so good at what he did.
    The point of the story is that people who focus on spelling are usually missing the bigger picture.
    It reminds me of another story about Henry Ford suing the Boston Tribune (or possibly the Globe) because they called him stupid. In court, the lawyers for the Tribune asked a bunch of questions about history that Ford didn't know. Ford made the point that no one knew his business better than him, and he had a row of buttons that he could press to summon someone that would know the answer to what ever he needed. Why should he cloud is mind and time with memorizing stuff that has no bearing on his day to day activities of running the most successful auto manufacturing company in the world (at the time). Again, the point is the bigger picture.
    I agree that we have way too many illiterates today being graduated from our school system. But berating people on a forum for spelling is quite silly. I make lots of mistakes because I type fast, and usually thinking of the next sentence or even next paragraph, and don't proofread a whole lot because this is an internet boating forum owned by Larry Flint...not the MENSA forum.

  10. #20
    Devilman
    Yeah, I've spent entirely too much time proofreading my posts.
    There is one poster whom I will not name drop on but man his posting is right down mean. I am costantly having a hard time trying to decifer through his rambling. There's no clear start or endings to his sentences. Good god does he come off like a total putz.
    LOL, nicely played..... I knew who you were talking about before I figured out who you were talking about. Thats some bad shit...... LMAO

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