Same, i am getting better at spelling but still spell some words wrong.
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Your Obsession With Spelling and Grammar is Bizzare, Strange, and Kinda Weird
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.