What is the deal with all of the teens on here that can't spell?
826644
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.\n\nIt's like so kewl tht ppl dont speel ot wrds then thy jst run there sentenses 2gether n we r all sppsed to no wht they r tryin 2 say yah thts just like the coolest thng evr.\n\nSomebody shoot me now.
1058547
Spelled incorrectly....scares the bejeezus out of me to think these illiterate fools will one day be governing this country, making decisions that affect us, and worse, will be in charge of teaching my kids to be illiterate.  I don't tolerate ebonics, either.  Ebonics is just an illiterate person feigning illiteracy.  Other than that, the only stupid question is the one never asked.  So yes...my nod to illiteracy.  May they all get Speak and Spells for X-mas this year!
405409
ummm, who can't spell??
1174839
It seems so. I have never seen so many children who can 't spell basic vocabulary words and form a complete sentence without error. It boggles my mind why they would intentionally spell words wrong too in order to seem like they are talking cool. No Child Left Behind, uh huh..........
296411
I feel your pain. There is no way to know who's grown, and who isn't. (Unless it's a really silly question, with horrible grammar, and spelling.)Even then, I'm pretty sure it's hard to tell. I get uneasy when I read some of the posts on here, and know that someones kid probably wrote it.
430754
:D It is "looking", not "Lukin".\nYou teens spell like hell.
422803
Well, let's see...you have a large number of non-, or little-English speaking participants from all over the world.  And you have a vast number of children who obviously got little or nothing out of their public school experience.  Finish that off with the handful who have no idea how to use a spell-checker, and.....voila!
388613
You'd never guess from the replies I get here on Answers. It looks like I'm dealing with first graders. We even have spellcheck!!!\n\nOh, and you'd never guess from my school spelling bees. We had kids dropping like flies from words like Banana, Cancel, Amplify? Not joking. It's sad....
49574
I no wut you meen. :) People learn how to speak properly, they just don't care and forget how to do it. Lose/loose, your/you're, they're/their/there misspelligs are real annoying..
920377
Has anyone noticed this person can't spell?
1158152
My first thought is that Yahoo Answers is only in English right now - and there are likely to be folks who do not have English as a primary language trying to participate.  I think that accounts for some of the really unintelligible ones - but I sure respect them for trying.  I know a little bit of German, but I sure don't have the guts to actually try to converse with people in that language - and the one time i had an opportunity to use what little I do know, I totally froze and was useless.\n\nSecondly I think that yes - a lot of teens and kids on here are use to a short hand lingo speak, or have not yet learned the importance of grammar.  For those I am so glad they participate because people like you (and lot others) will call them on it.  They will begin to learn that if they want to communicate in society, they have to do it in a way that we all understand or they will be ignored and sometimes ridiculed.\n\nThe lazy adults that we see (frankly can be so creative in their use of letters - I C U N U R O K) are usually understandable.  So while yes, it can be annoying the time we waste trying to decipher the hyroglyphics of our fellow Answers Fans, it is really wonderful in it's own way.\n\nPeace.
16533
You know, I've noticed that people who's screenname is hard to read have similarly hard to read/understand questions.  I don't understand this either.
909844
Pretty typical. Way over half of the bashers can't spell and don't know the difference in their, there, and they're...not to forget the difference in to and too, don't start me on the grammar.
581533
The site is used by people all over the globe. Many of them are not native English-speakers. But most of the others are kids and teens who really don't care about communicating correctly. They also have probably never been taught to write correctly. And they seem to enjoy using their own net-speak, which gives them a sense of community and identity that separates them from adults. And then there are those who are in a hurry to ask or answer questions. And finally, there are those who are too stupid, ignorant, or lazy to use correct spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation -- all the things that are required to communicate in writing.
1056987
Sometimes I wonder about people who post here who say the are going to attend a university, yet they misspell words and their grammar is simply awful.  Makes me wonder what kind of university they will be attending.  Some questions posted are almost incomprehensible, what with poor spelling, and bad sentence structure.  Sometimes, I know very literate people will misspell on purpose... but I don't do that myself. I like to see words written correctly.  I try to correct my own sentences, most of the time. I don't know, is it that people want to sound/look dumb so they "fit in"?  \n\nI do realize that this site has people from all around the world, and for many, English is probably not  their native language, so grammar and spelling may be difficult for them.  I'm not frustrated, but I do censor what I read at times, based on the type question, and the literacy of it too.   I figure, if someone cannot write pretty much correctly, they will probably be clueless as to what I write in my replies.  Maybe that is presumptuous on my part, but I do like to use words that a barely literate person probably won't be able to read or understand.  \n\nThen again, spelling doesn't always affect my replies, especially with kids.
883376
Most of them are so retarded and they write in badly written text speak\n\n"No wonder he left you, you're illiterate !"\n\nAaaaaaaaaaaaah !
948604
I'm amazed. You spell very well and use periods at the ends of sentences and your grammar isnt bad at all. Yet I see kids posting questions in here that claim to be in high school who can barely communicate at all. Their spelling is so bad you can't understand them and they don't use a period for an entire paragraph. You are obviously smarter than them but you were the one left back?\n\nThis says a lot about teachers and the screwed up school system. Good luck to you.