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12 years ago
misspelled on purpose XD
I'm very loose with spelling, it has to be really terrible before I'd hold someone to it. Like if someone's spelling is so bad and I cannot understand them then I'd complain. If its just something like someone typing something like "its" when they should say "it's" I don't bash people over things like that. I'll see people post on someone's blog saying merely one word sometimes and it is like this...." *you're" I personally shake my head when people do that. Its so disrespectful to just out of nowhere start correcting people's spelling. Give some credit to the idea and don't nitpick on something like that. We all would have missed out on a lot of great stories if we had actually threw our every single tale over a grammar error. Back in the time where writing was a luxury over a needed thing people who could even remotely read/write were lucky enough to even be able to write a story. I'm certain that back then a lot of the stories we see in the books today probably had several misspellings in them. We don't see them now because they've been exposed to 1000's of edits and translations. People who'd argue otherwise should read the original Grim's fairy tales.
I'm very loose with spelling, it has to be really terrible before I'd hold someone to it. Like if someone's spelling is so bad and I cannot understand them then I'd complain. If its just something like someone typing something like "its" when they should say "it's" I don't bash people over things like that. I'll see people post on someone's blog saying merely one word sometimes and it is like this...." *you're" I personally shake my head when people do that. Its so disrespectful to just out of nowhere start correcting people's spelling. Give some credit to the idea and don't nitpick on something like that. We all would have missed out on a lot of great stories if we had actually threw our every single tale over a grammar error. Back in the time where writing was a luxury over a needed thing people who could even remotely read/write were lucky enough to even be able to write a story. I'm certain that back then a lot of the stories we see in the books today probably had several misspellings in them. We don't see them now because they've been exposed to 1000's of edits and translations. People who'd argue otherwise should read the original Grim's fairy tales.
I agree with you for casual chats and the like, but I must admit I do find it rather distracting in RPs. If I'm, say, judging a writing contest, though, grammar and spelling issues will absolutely count against you. It's a writing contest; your submission should be well-written. Too often people submitting to these things at an amateur level skimp on or completely skip the proofreading stage. When something littered with mistakes wins, I always feel bad for the people who actually cared enough to put the effort in and make their language technically sound.
I was figuring that someone'd try to poke me for it but my focus was to the people who use it to bash people who cannot spell so well, I figured if they were so much smarter than we are they could figure it out. Probably one of my biggest problems is assuming people can figure everything I'm thinking out on their own. XD I should really stop doing that.
Like I've seen people say things like "If the grims spelled poorly do you think they'd still be loved today? Kind of stuff. So you were certainly right on track.
I don't wish to make anyone angry or upset, or sound like a grammar/spelling Nazi. I figure if I'm not perfect, why should I expect anyone else to be?