Spelling

I find it both very worrying, and almost inspirational, that as I read a profile, I note that they post their occupation as 'Gardner'.
Very professional.

No doubt there's a typo above....

 

I watched a Channel 4 programme about "Back to 1950s values" last night and noticed that a note that appeared before the final credits informing of the progress of the Gunn family who appeared on the show referred to them as "The Gunn's."

 

I have always been a very good speller, but I have serious doubts when I see some of my postings on here! :eek:

I think it's being a touch typist, my fingers can't keep up with my thoughts and I end up getting my cuecas in a twist!

 

Oh, don't even get me started!!

'There' instead of 'their'
'Would of' instead of 'would have'
'Your' instead of 'you're'
'ppl' instead of 'people'
'i' instead of 'I' - the perpendicular pronoun!
'it's' as in "its own" instead of 'its'
'its' and "it's coming" instead of 'it's'

The list goes on ....


I blame texting though I do use BTW and FWIW and things but at least I know the alternative! But then, I'm a bit of a pedant where these things are concerned....

 

Quote: 'would of' instead of 'would have'

Seen this a lot on here and assumed it was a northern thing?

I like 'peeps' instead of people, probably a northern thing as well?

All makes it more colourful though and so nice that people feel so informal and relaxed! :D :D

 

Wasn't it Harry Enfield that introduced 'peeps' ?

:D

 

I posted before about if I had a fiver for everytime I saw the word definitely spelt with an 'a' I could go on a world cruise, since then I could go on another one! I haven't commented on people's spelling as mainly these days folk don't care whether they spell properly.
School kids are learning/using two lots of grammar, English and text and mix the two.

 

So true Strongylodon
I remember at school even for geography, history etc. any incorrect spellings were marked in bright red, and we had to correct them all. ( well, I know this was ages ago)
Seems these days even in essays and the like, spelling is mostly ignored. How can the kids ever know what is the correct spelling for anything and I suppose, thinking about it, some of the young teachers don't know anyway!

 

Not just the young ones, Jjordie - anyone who went through school after the 70's isn't likely to have had any formal grammar taught in English - any they've learne has probably been through learning Frnch and German. It was a major problem for Language teachers. I believe it IS improving, though, as common sense has begun to return in primary schools......

I used to be a natural speller, but I've been exposed to so much wrong spelling that it's definitely had an effect on me!! And, like LoL - typos abound!! And that's my excuse too - thoughts running ahea of the fingers..... the number of times I've typed "ahve" - as I'm sure people have noticed!

 

For a time, a peculiar idea, that you might thwart "creative expression" in a writer by insisting on the observance of grammar and spelling, flourished.
As Joyce Grenfell pointed out in her book "In Pleasant Places" any student of music or dance will tell you that "creative expression" can't exist other than at a very primitive level without the mastery of basic rules and techniques.
No wonder there is so much indiscipline around today after thirty-odd years of letting children get away with all sorts of sloppiness in the name of "Self- expression."

 

Woo, try speaking them one at a time! :D

 

Tone....they are possibly excellent gardeners !

 

..or gardners..