Why are so many of the questions written with misspelled words?
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Disinterest in the elegant subtleties of written communication, I am afraid.\n\n<sigh>
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Yes. English is not the only language in world & even ppl who only speak english can make these mistakes too. Whats the big deal? if u can understand what was the question thats should be it ...or even if u cant, whats the big deal if u cant underestand few questions from thousands?
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Its a little of both.  Some people have become so reliant on spell check and don't know how to spell without the assistance of a computer.  Other people just refuse to use spell check altogether.  Then, there are a lot of kids that think that typing the extra 2 letters in "your" will take up a lot of time, so they type "ur".  Either way, it is a sad representation of today's youth and academic abilities.  \nHonestly, I never read a question or answer that is marred with spelling answers and abbreviations.  Who seems like a more reputable reference- An answer that is grammatically correct with perfect spelling or an answer that uses ALL CAPS NO PUNCTUATION LOTS OF ABBREVIATIONS POOR SPELLING AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY THE INEVITABLE 4 LETTER WORD
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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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Our answers have to be in depth BUT you can misspell words!?!?!? \n\nGO FIGURE!
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Tomorrow is Sunday, maybe instead of whining and bitching about it you could learn how to spell correctly.\n\nIn your 20 word question there were 7 spelling mistakes, 3 grammar mistakes, so therefore you made 50% of your question unreadable by your obvious ineptitude.\n\nYou used strange abbreviations that made no sense, maybe you are illiterate and are so ignorant you do not know it.
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My favorite question ever was, "Why can't anybody use proper grammer?"  I do not know why people do not use spell check.  They are lazy, I guess.
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I completely agree with you. I notice it a lot on here. Most of the so called questions are not even in question form. The spelling mistakes are unbelievable and we have spell check! Go figure? It is scary to see this. It really makes me wonder what goes on in school, what are our teaches doing? Where are the parents? Are they help their children? What about some adults, they do the very same thing. I just read a so called question and it said: "My sister and brother in law leave when they feed?" First off, this is NOT a question, second, the word "feed" should be "fed" or it should have read,"they leave after they have eaten" (That makes more sense). The dumbing down of America is so apparent and it is getting worse and worse. We need to put more money into our education system instead of the billions we spend on nonsense. \nI posted a question a few days ago, "How come no one spells words out?" I see "wit" for with...."cuz" for because...."plz" for please. I received really great responses. But the majority mentioned that it is faster to type these shortcuts....."wit" is only missing the "h"...how much faster do you type leaving out one letter?\nI agree with you a 100%.....remember, type-o's are different from spelling and grammar mistakes. Spell check will not do it's job right if you spell words like "cuz" for because.\nYou are right and I hope people take your question seriously and learn something from it.
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There are four factors at work here:\n\n1) Bad spellers.  There are many students who receive social promotions because holding them back would damage their ego so they are passed without having the proper skills.\n\n2) Hip factor.  Some of the misspelling are done because it is cool to have a slick way of typing things (i.e. d00dz, etc.)\n\n3) Laziness.  It far easier to type becuz than because and it still gets the message across.\n\n4) Space limitations.  In the case of questions, you only get so many letters in the question so some people will abbreviate or cut letter out of words to make them fit.
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YES I DO.  It's very annoying.  I stop reading questions if they are too poorly worded or in Ebonics.  It's just pitiful to see how poorly people know the English language and grammar.  Never mind the spelling!!!!
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Never considered that - quite insightful...\n\nBut I would bet that it does account for quite the number of misspellings...\n\nKind of disturbing.\n\n-dh
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Why don't people know how to use a spell checker?
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I've asked this question.  Most people just don't care about their spelling, and they claim to be in too much of a hurry to use Spell Check.  They are idiots.
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Right on Cindy!!! I am with you 100%. Misspellings and poor grammar are running rampant here on Yahoo Questions. People, are you listening?
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its interesting that you would ask a question about spelling and not be able to do so correctly in your question....................
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You misspelled typos.
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There are several reasons. In some cases, it is simply due to quick typing and insufficient editing. It's easy to confuse the spelling of homophones such as "their" and "there" when writing rapidly.\n\nAlso, many of those who seem incapable of using correct grammar and spelling are actually young people trying to emulate ghetto culture by spelling "want" as "wont" and "with" as "wit," etc... These are the mistakes that I find particularly annoying for some reason, perhaps because I feel like young people should at least make an effort to come across as sincere and thoughtful when asking someone who is wiser or more learned for information or help.\n\nThe popularity of chatting has also resulted in an overuse of certain abbreviations which has unfortunately become the standard for online communication. This is where some of the laziness in grammar and spelling comes in, as well.\n\nIn addition, there are those posting for whom English is a second or third language. At certain times of the day, there are a number of people on here from India, for example. And while it's easy to be impatient with mistakes that even the least educated American wouldn't make, I try to remind myself that these people speak two or more languages fluently and that I should therefore not only tolerate minor errors but be ashamed of the even worse errors perpetrated by my own fellow Americans.\n\nFinally, however, there are a certain number of the population who just don't seem to have a basic grasp of grammar, spelling, or punctuation and who don't even seem to care. There are unfortunately so many of these people, that I'm afraid Yahoo would have more than a full-time job trying to keep up with their errors. \n\nIn my opinion, therefore, the best thing those of us who do think it's worth investing a little time and thought into how we express our thoughts online is to try to set a good example for the others, both in our questions and our responses. And though I try to resist the temptation to correct other people's errors, I sometimes find it very difficult to do so. This is especially the case when they've obviously not even made half an effort and don't appear to be foreign. When that's the case, and if they exhibit even the slightest bit of arrogance, closed-mindedness, or bigotry, I usually "let 'er rip"!