Spelling

[bluebastardo]

We all balls up occasionally with our spelling, especially when we're trying to type quickly enough to get the thoughts from our heads onto the page before we lose track, but is it just me, or is there a common deficiency in the use of the English language amidst forum dwellers regardless of site?

Some common examples:

There / their / they're.

Our v are.

Too / to / two.

Where / we're / wear / were.

Let's have a GOT grammar awareness day.

 

[TX Bill]

Amen to that brother.

 

[Hibbo]

I am feeling this is making a joke of me in this manner.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

Add bad or NO punctuation to that list.

 

[ЭВЭРТОН]

Here here, what we need is a role model for a government funded literacy push in our schools. The likes of Jamie Oliver has done wonders for youth nutrition however, somebody who can speak English.

 

[Upper Sturry Sherbets]

It's passed my bedtime , and I have a slight pane in the head, I don't know weather I can get any sleep tonight, Mois is a grate manager and better than benites and won Evertonian is betta than twentee Liverpudlions.

Or as they say in Bermondsey, "i've got sixs cans of stella an sum paint and goin ta vandalise sum tranns"

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

 

[bluebastardo]

Here here, what we need is a role model for a government funded literacy push in our schools. The likes of Jamie Oliver has done wonders for youth nutrition however, somebody who can speak English.

Good post, to which I've repped you.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

Good post, to which I've repped you.

His first ever




I'll make it 2

 

[ЭВЭРТОН]

His first ever




I'll make it 2

Come on you two, don't you dare be taking my cherished red dots away from me

 

[bluebastardo]

Come on you two, don't you dare be taking my cherished red dots away from me

Lol

 

[bluebastardo]

His first ever




I'll make it 2

And I've repped you for repping him.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Your and you're seems to be the most common one, along with there and they're. It's rampant all over the internet though, not just GoT.

I can handle it...what gets me is "what r u doing?" and other text-speak cr*p like that. That nonsense does my head in...

 

[Rugby Toffee]

Your and you're seems to be the most common one, along with there and they're. It's rampant all over the internet though, not just GoT.

I can handle it...what gets me is "what r u doing?" and other text-speak cr*p like that. That nonsense does my head in...

I agree....my kids text me all this garbage , I still have to ring them back to ask them what it all means...

 

[Goat]

My spelling is awful sometimes, its about typing fast and not really concentrating, sometimes I know I have spelt something wrong, but it breaks my flow if I have to back space.

Its all about the passion baby.

 

[Bluelass]

some of it isn't about spelling, it's about getting it wrong.

examples -

'are team are the best' - it's OUR team

'them players are rubbish' - it's THOSE players

'we could of beat them' - we could have beaten them

'we was the best' - we were the best


there are plenty of other examples of bad grammar but these are by far the most frequently used.
yes, I'm a pedantic old bag who is bordering on being a grammar fascist but it's not difficult to use the correct words.

I blame Thatcher meself like