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Your Obsession With Spelling and Grammar is Bizzare, Strange, and Kinda Weird

Started by Sir-Charlie 119 posts last post 1 month ago Page 6 of 6

#101

Same, i am getting better at spelling but still spell some words wrong.
Just a young guy trying to navagate this fucked up world as best as i can.

#102

But that's the key. You are trying hard and you are actually getting better. These folks who don't care about themselves and haven't read a single book in their entire life, don't.

Όταν θα κοιτάς την θάλασσα
Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα βλέπεις εμένα
Και τα μάτια σου θα ‘ναι θλιμμένα
Όταν θα ξυπνάς στον ύπνο σου
Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα σκέφτεσαι εμένα
Και θα νιώθεις μεγάλο κενό

#103 2 likes

Why do I find this so amusing?
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#104

We can't tell you sorry.
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#105

Damn it. I'll figure it out somehow.
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#106

GL Bro

#107 2 likes

I'll freely admit that I'm nowhere near the best speller ever. That said, I do try to spell as well as I can, simply because regardless of where I'm writing messages, be it in a chat group on WhatsApp/iMessage/other platforms, or on a forum such as this, I despise looking like someone who doesn't know how to spell well, much less construct some form of grammatically correct statement. If I do correct someone on spelling, I'll usually phrase my correction along the lines of: Hey, just as a friendly heads-up, the word you're trying to spell is spelled like this: "insert spelling here."

Where I start having problems is when I gently correct people for how they spell, and they lash out at me as though I were condemning them for doing something atrocious. It'd be one thing if I was correcting them with malace, but that's one thing I try incredibly hard not to do.

Regarding lack of punctuation, that's one thing I absolutely can't stand. The same goes for uncapitalized I's when they stand by themselves. Those two things drive me utterly crazy.

I apologize if my post comes off as rambly, but those are my thoughts, for what little they may be worth.
Regards, Joseph

#108 Edited

Just a question. Maybe It's a strange one. Is it a european/german thing to spell words that have a th in the middle with a double t instead? This one I find quite frustrating. And this one you won't hear unless you don't have some english voice of your choice.
McOi

#109

That is an interesting question. I saw this mostly only from Germans, Hungarians do even more weird things :D
Also, for everyone who stood against those few of us and especially me for my grammar nazism. I've been told only a few days ago that "mythology" is actually spellt like this and not with an I. Everyone can do mistakes and it's always cool to learn anything. From now on I'll pay more attention and I'll spell it correctly. And that is exactly what many of you don't want to do. To learn, at least from your mistakes.
When I learned English at school, I wrote "important" with an "n" like inportant. I also wrote wehicle, with w instead of v. But teachers and friends told me it's incorrect so I learned the correct spelling. To be exact, I realised I'm not spelling "vehicle" right because of Cosmic rage. My vehicle just refused to start and it said unknown command or something like that. So yeah. It's never too late to improve.

Όταν θα κοιτάς την θάλασσα
Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα βλέπεις εμένα
Και τα μάτια σου θα ‘ναι θλιμμένα
Όταν θα ξυπνάς στον ύπνο σου
Χωρίς να το θέλεις, θα σκέφτεσαι εμένα
Και θα νιώθεις μεγάλο κενό

#110

I mean. On SBYW I literally got forsed. They all bitched like ideots when I spelled something wrong, back in 2021 it was the end of the world. I felt really bad through that but hey at least I'm here. Now when people get offended I think back to what pills I had to swallow in comparison xd.
McOi

#111

I'm gonna ask a similar question, but in this case using the letter s when there'd belong a c. For example society, forced or necessarily. I mean, you can still sort of hear it with english eloquence too, so where does it come from? And no, this is not a bashing atempt, but I'm noticing it quite often at this point, is it an europeans/germans thing too?

#112

Actually I don't know. Personally I'm gonna confess I have a few problems with that one. I don't even think that's a synth thing, but back in the day I learned simply by sound and if I didn't know how something was written, before just asking gpt or whatever, I'd type something until it sounds write. With s and c's, that still happens to me.
McOi

#113

Okay, so, i might be a bad speller at sum points, but, i was in a school that consisted of mainly sighted people, and they did not really help me with spelling at all. Now I go to a school for the visually impaird, and i have improved allott recently. how ever, in the case of my friend Natan, he has been going to my school for longer than me now, and his spelling is not the best.
So, we have had different experiences with spelling.
Don't just critisize people on there week points.
Also, sum times, because i have learnt spelling wwith our good friend brail, sum times it is harder to learn from that way.

#114 2 likes

I would think that learning spelling via braille would be a fair bit easier than with audio. You're actually reading th word. That said, if you're trying to spell a word written in, say, Grade 2 braille with contractions, that could be tricky if you've never seen it in uncontracted braille.
Regards, Joseph

#115 Edited

oh know don't worry, since some braille signs fiel the same I tend to get them confused. A and EA for example
that doesn't happen all the time though
signed, Mayowa Arogundade

#116

Exactly. at least i have sum people that understand.

#117

I wonder is braille different over there? E and EA as you said it don't feel the exact same, you can feel the A sitting there if you paid attention to what your fingers are reading. At least that's the thing for me.
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#118

For me as well, I can easily tell the difference in E and E N, I and I N and such like. I also have no trouble visualizing how words are actually spelled in grade 1 Braille. I know we all have our strengths and weaknesses though.
Strange, Troubled Times...

#119

Same. Not sure what's so hard about it tbh
McOi