flamingdog

Why does it need to be pointed out? So you can bestow the benefit of your worldy-wisdom on me? Well thank-you Mr Gondath, sir. I'll try much harder in future. What do you care even if I am too lazy to make sure my your and you're are contextually correct? Maybe I've got better things to think about... and is it going to wreck your day?

Pointing out factual or logical errors in my posts is one thing, 'correcting' my spelling is not only disrespectful, it's fucking condescending. Why even bring it up? What if it's a typo? Everyone misspells sometimes, it's part of being human.

If a post is so horribly spelled that you can't bring yourself to reply, then hit 'back' and move on with your day. If all you can say is 'woah, fucked up spelling dude,' then you're not really contributing at the level you should be, now, are you?

If you went through and catalogued every spelling mistake on the TFP, I think you'd be shocked. I spot them in every other post more or less. Do I highlight them? Of course I don't. I make them myself, it's only because I go through and check how my shit reads that I pick up a majority of them.

That this somehow contributes to the 'degradation of language' is a faulty argument too, since it presupposes that language is somehow formalised and set in stone. If that were true, we'd still be speaking and writing in middle english, we'd still be using Johnson's dictionary as the basis of our language.

Who decides what is the correct spelling of a completely new word?

For an open-minded, intellectual community, you sure do get some pomposity thrown around here. Sheesh.