Reply #6: TELL ME you AREN"T serious!

[PetraPooh]

This is the exact reasoning that was used to keep illiterates and blacks from voting back in the day. I think any reasonable thinker of democracy should and is allowed on DU. I for one would not be embarrassed to know that we have folks on the boards that don't spell well. For example, the semi-genius logistitians are often spelling challenged; do we want them out, NO! For example, the bi-lingual persons for whom English is a second or third language; do we want the out, NO. And lastly the hard working folks that have probably been working since they were in their early teens for minimum wage or less and didn't have time or environment to make spelling a priority; do we want them out, NO!

I too tend to be a bit anal about things, but the message you send here is downright unthoughtout. Nit pick yourself for a better tomorrow, leave the rest to decide what is important to them. This is a sight of common ideology; poor spelling on some posts only adds to the knowledge that we have culturally, intellectually, and environmentally diverse community; a very good thing in my eyes.