A spelling and grammar plea.

[boppers]

Please, folks, if you are going to post about somebody's else's intelligence, or post that you feel like your intellect was somehow insulted, at least use spell check. It detracts from your arguments if your spelling and grammar make your posts nigh unreadable.

Yes, I was willing to burn one of my allotted three posts on this, because the anti-Obama threads are littered with posts demonstrating a profound lack of care or concern for one's readers. While I certainly recognize that not everybody has the same education, and that every vote counts, and that every voter is important, it does your cause no favors to exemplify (and even amplify) a stereotype.

[Bicoastal]

1. Im' extremly insluted, by tihs post,

Considder yoreself IGNORD!!

[sniffa]

2. WHT TEH FCUK IS THAT SPPOSED TO MEEN

[DearAbby]

3. I two am insalted...

but out of the kindnis of mah hart, I won't never ignore yu. I jes won't never anser you or luk at yur posts. just simpole as that.

[quantass]

4. FRACK THAT!

juz kiddin :hi:
GOBAMA!

[ClassWarrior]

5. *********This Is Falmebait Your DEAD To Me!!!*************

:rofl:

NGU.

[raul diblasio]

6. Content is much more important than spelling

It looks like you are mad a Hillary supporter who posted an anti-Obama thread.

[boppers]

11. mad a Hillary supporter?

What do you mean? I agree that content is important, but if a reader cannot discern the content, effective communication of the message fails to happen.

[DAGDA56]

31. Do you mean mad AT a Hillary supporter...

...when you least expect it, SPELL CHECK WILL BETRAY YOU!

[Maddy McCall]

7. The beautiful thing is that I could red-pen your OP for at least three grammatical errors...

but I'm not that petty.

[boppers]

9. Fair enough, Maddy.

I don't have a decent grammar checker, nor do I have the assistance of an editor. Would you like to point out my errors, so that I may learn from them, and thus, avoid repeating them?

[rug]

10. The comma/conjunction problem, I assume.

[Teaser]

15. I've never considered commas proper grammatical elements

they confer no information that cannot be inferred from the actual semantic elements and their respective positions in the sentence.

[rug]

17. How do you feel about periods?

[Teaser]

22. Frankly, they're unnecessary as well.

They make it easier, but sentences are entirely workable without them. Try reading many original Latin documents: it's often a wall of (capital) text with no punctuation, frequently no spacing, yet somehow its readable and an entire society got by quite well with them.

[boppers]

18. "a woman without her man is nothing"

Place punctuation, capitals, etc. in the above sentence accordingly. :) (I forget who came up with this one, but it can be fun to see the variations, and who creates which variations).

[Teaser]

23. a, woman withoUt he,r m,a,n is, nothinG

.

[boppers]

25. *snort*

:)

A woman: without her, man is nothing.
A woman without: her man is nothing.
A woman, without her man, is nothing.

[TahitiNut]

27. A woman without! Herman is nothing.

:shrug:

[Hoof Hearted]

21. It's an elitist thing Maddy, you wouldn't understand.

[TahitiNut]

26. You aren't?

:wow: Coulda fooled me!

[Jamastiene]

29. ...

:spray:

I like your style. :thumbsup:

[dailykoff]

36. Such as?

How about a for instance or would that violate the Hillarian code of un-ethics?

[Gore1FL]

8. I try not to insult people's intelligence...

...usually the ones I would do a good enough job of it themselves.

I make one whole hell of a lot of typos though.

[jkshaw]

12. Thank you for this, Boppers

Lots of snark, of course. Message nevertheless is worth taking to heart. There's spell check right on the bottom of the message window. Please, please use it.

[L0oniX]

13. Tats beecaws thair arr meny stooped peepole en teh internoits.

Loke hare iz eh Hilarit souporter woo nose hcow toe speek coratly.

http://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/jeffk/

[crankychatter]

14. mice pell Czech works fine tyvm n/t

.

[sandnsea]

16. And if you're going to insult Rev Wright

you could try to get that spelling right too, or Wright, but most certainly not Write.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter.

[Raine]

20. I try but

I admit that I'm not very good at puncuation etc. I had a good private school education and attended a couple of years of college but didn't graduate. I was just never good at that kind of thing (guess I didn't pay enough attention). I KNOW I make constant mistakes and it bothers me but I do the best I can. I hope that what I say won't be discounted because I don't say it the right way.

[gateley]

30. Me too, Raine.

I know I frequently commit grievous grammatical and punctuation errors, but I'm chatting among friends -- not submitting a paper for a grade.

Your best is more than good enough for me! :pals:

[Raine]

32. Aw, you're so nice

Thanks! :pals:

[pleah]

24. Oh, boy! A spellin and grammer thred!

:popcorn:

[Secret_Society]

28. Are you kidding with this? Obama doesn't even know how many states there are lol

[Two Americas]

33. this is a joke, yes?

Please dear God, tell me this is a joke.

[Raejeanowl]

34. I Thought The Obama Supporters Had The Highest Education Demographic n/t

[JCMach1]

35. get a grip on realty, moran!

[bridgit]

37. Ah, I can see it on a bumper sticker: 'We're The Obama Crowd: Finding Ever New Ways...

To Call People That Don't Agree With Us Stupid (fill in the "blank screen") Trash'

Keep up the good work; you should be working for Monsanto :thumbsup: Though I would have considered hyphenating 'nigh-unreadable'.

And while I understand the admonition to live one's life through DU spell check; a hyphen so employed passes through both DU & ieSpell's program as well. Offering editorial enhancements capable of lulling the perplexed. Hopefully even to your side :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Perry Logan]

38. Take heart, Obama people. There's no shame in being stupid.