I read all these questions and answers but 90% are misspelled. Not even slang words, they are outright wrong. Am I the only one who notices these things?
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I agree whole-heartedly. This has been bugging me quite a bit. What bothers me even more is that people have such horrific spelling and grammar to begin with. I'm assuming that most of the people who post on this website are at least 13 or older. People of that age should be capable of expressing themselves clearly and intelligently.
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I'm an editor, I'm bilingual, and poor spelling is a peeve of mine as well. There's a difference between a typo and not understanding (or caring) how to spell, or how to follow simple grammar rules. Poor spelling in the form of abbreviated words is understandable on cell phones and Blackberries (I suppose it could save you from carpal tunnel syndrome), but if you have a full keyboard, it's just sad.\n\nEveryone who says "you don't have to know how to spell to use the internet" is just wrong. The internet is powerful because it is a communication medium. How can you communicate if nobody can read your horrific misspellings? A lot of these people who can't spell are also trying to meet their mate on online dating sites. When you're online, nobody can judge you based on how well you carry on a conversation in a restaurant. They're going to judge you based on what you type - if you type nonsense, people will think you're full of nonsense. When I tried online dating, I was repulsed (yes, repulsed...I know it's a strong word, but it's accurate) by some of the misspellings I encountered. \n\nIt's not cool to be dumb and uneducated. It might be in high school, but when you're 30 years old and you have to ask your customers "Do you want to super size that?", people think you're pathetic. There's no way my company would hire someone who spells like that, and I would assume the same holds true for most companies with jobs that pay double digit hourly wages.\n\nMaybe it's the anonymity of the internet. I'd be curious to get all of these atrocious spellers together in a room with pens and paper, and see what they write on a job application, or something else that really matters. Then we could see how many people are consciously dumbing themselves down online, since they have nobody watching. \n\nI don't think you are being a jerk by asking this question. I can't help but think the poor spellers are also poor in math, science, business, etc. This is one of the reasons that China and India might overtake the US - their citizens can spell better than ours.
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It is so annoying to see questions/answers with so many spelling/grammar mistakes!  I guess people are just too lazy to make use of the 'check spelling' link.  And yes, the apparent lack of adequate spelling/grammar skills in today's children/teenagers worries me. :(
252533
I think that 90 percent of the people on the internet don't know how to spell or speak properly........thanks for helping to prove my point
114262
Thank You!  I thought I was going crazy.  The same exact thing happens to me when I use spell check.  If it finds a word that is misspelled,and you change it, it doesn't change the word, but some other word and messes up the text. I don't use it anymore, I have a link to www.dictionary.com on my toolbar now.
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I love you! I came on here for the first time last night and I was shocked at how horrible people's grammar and spelling was.  I honestly couldn't even understand some of the questions and/or answers because of the lack of structure, proper spelling, and grammar.  Glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by it!
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Unfortuantly, yes most of the people here are speaking (their form) of English. Most of the people on Yahoo! answers are just posting any old thing like "y da ski bloo?" (translation) > why is the sky blue? or "my mama an dad BAD. wat i d0?" > just to get points so they can brag about how "helpful" they are and about the only thing you can do is report them to Yahoo! I know how it feels. I get bugged, too!
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I agree! It's amazing how many people can't, or won't spell or write correctly, especially here in Yahoo! Answers. The excuse I always get is "Well, this is the Internet, you're SUPPOSED to misspell!". Please! It's no wonder our country is falling behind so many other countries in literacy and other areas of knowledge. We, as a society have become lazy in such basic things as spelling, grammar, math and science.
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Many users are internatinal users also who don't speak English as a first language, so it's understandable that they misspell some words. Also, people are very lazy and there isn't a spellcheck feature here on answers; you can't expect everyone to copy and paste all of their answers from word processing programs. A few of the users are younger children as well who are just learning proper spelling and grammar techniques.
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I am so glad someone else mentioned this!  I think it's terrible the way some people spell and the grammar they use. It just makes you wonder:  What did they learn in school?  Spell check works sometimes, but not for everything. A majority of the words that are misspelled are not difficult words, either - just ordinary, everyday words!
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I support your petition. My theory is that they haven't found enough Spanish speaking people to check the questions and answers for dirty language, inconvenient contents, and so on. It seems that people at Q&A are rather prude when it comes to certain words (usually replaced by as many asterisks as letters the word originally had). So they mustn't have finished programming the site to do the same job for Spanish (or any other language, for that matter) dirty words.
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Shame on some of your answers to this question! He/she asked a good question. So! one word was misspelled,  Remember ! what goe's around, comes around! I'm sure we have all misspelled a word from time to time. .....deckape, here is my answer ---This is the most constructive thing I've done all day, and thank you for giving me something constructive to do, before the day ends.  Now, I'd like to constrict a few necks, belonging to the answers on here!!!
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I have asked myself that question. Some spelling is so bad I read it more than once thinking it is a joke.\n\nI do the same with some of the questions that people ask. I am by far not a genius, but I wasn't aware of the number of people that are totally ignorant. I am not trying to be cruel or mean by saying that.  It's a fact that I had not thought about before.
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one thing u gotta do is STAY AWAY FROM HERE! with the combination of street slang, Internet slang, laziness & idiots who just can't spell to save thier life. this is not a good place to learn it.
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I agree that sometimes people are just in a hurry to answer, so they don't catch their mistakes. I am guilty of that many times. However, I think that many are non-English speakers, or  are just learning to speak and write English. So they are not really that familiar with the spelling of the words that they just hear on TV, songs, etc. This is a venue for them to learn.
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dessert. as for misspelled words, I think almost everyone on yahoo answers skipped english/spelling class every day. that or they failed it miserably. i mean, they DO have a spell check on here!
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i don't think they read them at all. they just start spouting off at the mouth. and watch out. people are starting to condemn each other for typos and misspelled words again.