Typos! Arrghh!

Randman

Randman

HA! HA! HA!
I'll be the first to admit that I don't worry that much about my spelling and grammar when typing posts, especially when I'm trying to post something on the quick. But I will edit it if it seems a bit much to let things slide.
But am I the only one who is driven up a wall with some of the horrible spellings that make it on the board? And not just here, but it does seem that things have gotten worse here. :(
Are people lazier? Younger? Are more switchers over here so the IQ level has dropped? What is it?? :confused:
Just today, I've read about all ready rather than already. To instead of too. There instead of their. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Sorry, just had to rant and rave a bit.
 
*fans the flames

lol - switchers

Has the internet and the instant forum it provideds crippled the language?

And where did our GrammarNazi go? ;)
 
Who was the grammar Nazi? We need one. And pds, *fans flames even more and tosses a little lighter fluid as well* it's Internet and provides, not provideds. :D
 
I too wish for a much greater check on grammar. :)

(I get particularly upset when a fellow Englishman displays a complete lack of regard for one's own language). Pass me the cane. :p

We need a virtual cane to whack the back of the user's hand, particularly where diction and grammar seems to have ran out of the tips of their fingers.
 
Internet... I am a bit of a refusnik on that one. I don't think it is a proper noun.

provideds - you got me, off to the gulag with me!

Grammar Nazi search reveals that Adambyte once assumed the role though the gone (and missed) nkuvu was the coiner of the phrase.
 
ps, uoba, it's one's own language, not ones. :D

And I think it would be run not have ran since the rest of the sentence uses active verbs rather than past tense.
 
:D :D

I nominate Randman as the new Grammar Nazi! The post's responsibilities would be to identify all posts containing egregious and or glaring grammatical errors and to correct all grammatical excesses, including, but not limited to, errors of syntax, case, word use and paragraph style - as well as wordiness and run-on sentence structures and other unspecified afronts to the eye of the trained reader; and to ridicule, harrass and belittle such posts and explain the correct form of the same and to maintain a special thread or even a whole forum dedicated to preserving the legacy of proper grammar and proving to the world that we here at macosx.com do, indeed, have at least one brain.

International members would be held to slightly more lenient standards than native speakers at the discretion of the Grammar Nazi.

Tree would be exempt.

:D:D
 
I'm glad tree would be exempt. :) I'm more than happy to throw my $.02 in from time to time, but I don't think I'd be up to doing it on a full-time basis. I have enough work to do at work (designer/editor).
Besides I think it's an unwritten law that only jazz musicians are allowed to be paid for their work, then they go somewhere else and do the same thing - for free. :D
I'm happy just playing ombudsman once in a while, and ranting/going off on my tangents the rest of the time here.
 
Sorry... I know I make tons of typos. Dyslexic .. aaand, my eyes correct my typos so I can't see them. And they correct many other typos as well, so I read the words often the way they were meant to be even when they contain typos.

Dylsexics untie :)
 
wot? de eng lang iz now prfct 4 2days rnge of mdrn communication tools it hs evolved 2 nu level whr vowels nt usd
 
Dyslexics exempt, natch.
What blows my mind is how many horribly misspelled email ads I get. Even - or especially - if it's someone trying to pull off a scam, you'd think they'd take a moment to add some credibility to their hoax by writing properly. When an email is (at least, ostensibly) supposed to be representing a company and product or service, you'd think they'd at least run it through a spell check before sending it out.

Common errors:
a lot -> alot
lose -> loose
their -> there
they're -> there
hear -> here
 
Butt, ewe no that spell checkers want got al miss takes sew it cant all ways bee re-lied an. ;)
 
I remember an article in one of the broadsheet newspapers a few years ago. A pupil had submitted her English Literature GCSE (first major exams in your life in the UK) examination paper penned in mobile phone txt language. Apparently, not as a joke or a parody either. :eek:
 
Hehe.


The emails are typoed so that your spam filters won't catch if you get emails about \/!@gr4, h0rs3 ****s, pr3scRipTion medddi¢in3s and so on. :)
 
Off-topic... if anyone is getting too much spam in their mail.app (it isn't being filtered into junk for example), then check out junkmatcher (do a search on versiontracker). It matches common spam words such as viagra and matches them using regular expressions.
 
The emails are typoed so that your spam filters won't catch if you get emails about
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I realize that, though often the typos extend even to incidental words that could never be used to filter spam.

And besides, what kind of strategy is that? Do the spammers really think they'll sell more stuff this way? To me it's like a door-to-door salesman who breaks in through a window after you refused to answer the door. Why would I buy something from some jerk who won't respect my obvious desire to be left alone?

Who are the people who buy things this way? Who are the fools making such a moronic strategy worthwhile? I'd like to flog them, as well as the spammers.
 
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