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Does anyone else find it mystifying to discover spelling mistakes on the Forum advertising, and on Planet Auran's Profile pages?
This one has been with us for ages: "Stoping files being Processing" The preceding sentence offends as well: "This page can be used to check that we have recieved your upload." "I" before "E", except after "C" and all that...
"Content will stay in the Preview Area until it has been approved / decline by you" Surprising mixture of tenses in this statement.

When I read the pseudo word "bouns" in the advertisement on the forums here, it just appears so unprofessional.
 
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Picky, picky, picky. But you are absolutely right. The kids today (anyone under the age of 40 is a kid) definitely were not paying attention in their English/Grammar classes. That even includes the ones that supposedly graduated from some college.

I think one of the biggest problems though is that no one proof reads their work. Just another vivid example of how the whole world is going to H..l in a hand basket.
 
I love "have got". I was taught that was a no-no. Now the USA President uses it. Further supports the premise that education is failing fast. Lots of Bros and Dudes but little understanding of language.

Thankfully for civilization the old cultures of Asia are emerging with a dedication to education. The West is slipping badly - "sweet"
 
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I love "have got". I was taught that was a no-no. Now the USA President uses it...snip...
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Using the word 'got' , to me , sounds worse than vulgarity ! But I have noticed
little use of the word ' ain't ' in current conversations ?

And , let's not forget the cashier's that cannot make correct change without
the use of the computerized register !!

Just my thoughts , ---DLR
 
I hate bad spelling and grammar, too. Even though I didn't make great grades in English when I was in school, I taught myself to use correct grammar and spelling later in life--- well enough that I am a published author with a book in the Library of Congress, plus, the writer (and artist) of a number of "technical" comic books that were also published by my former employer. (Throwing a few roses on my own stage! :p )

I ain't sayin I gots perfcet spelleng or grammer, bud I thimk mines' bettar than mosf poeple'ss.

Warmest regards and cheers to all of you out there,

Dave Snow
 
not sure if this is completely relevant but i found it pretty interesting:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Or rather...
According to a researcher (sic) at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.

Definitely not saying dodgy spelling doesn't annoy me...

Edit: did some more research on that and it turns out it isn't completely true..
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/
 
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Actually, Scratchy' you reminded me of a blurb I read on that study. Other studies have shown that the eye only scans the upper half of the letters in words. The mind is amazing.

My pet peeves are the inability of some writers to distinguish the possessive 's and the pluralizing s, and sentences with dangling participles.

But impatience with slovenly writing is not mere pedantry. Language is a code. If we are not all using the same code how can we hope to communicate with precision? I do not agree that this is a modern phenomenon. For example, punctuation has been prohibited in written train orders for a very long time, largely because it is so often misused.

Bernie
 
Just to clarify my original post; I realize none of us are perfect all the time, least of all me. I'm pointing out that I expect commercial literature to contain properly spelled words at the very least, as it does not imply professionalism otherwise.
 
the eye only scans the upper half of the letters in words.
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This is very true. Take any text, cover the bottom half of the line, and you can read it. Cover the top half, and it's incomprehensible.

As one who spent my whole working life with languages, I too am annoyed by poor grammar, poor spelling and modern abbreviations for words (text speak). However, it must be remembered that languages are alive and constantly change. New words come in, old ones disappear. There is nevertheless no excuse for sloppiness in speech or writing, and I feel strongly that it is a common courtesy to check any post in this forum for obvious errors before submitting it. Too many seem to be written and submitted in haste.

Spell checkers are not infallible and are I believe responsible for many of the errors one sees in print.

Incidentally, on previewing the above I found five typing errors to correct and three instances where I felt the need to change the phrasing. I rest my case.

Ray
 
A lot of spelling mustakes are basically typos - e.g. transposing "u" and "i" which are right next to each other on the keyboard - and where would any of us be without Word's auto-correct feature automatically changing "teh" into "the"?

The solution usually comes down to careful proofreading. But there is always the old adage of "never rely on proofreading your own work". Many authors and web site designers will tell you that time is often too short and the demands of management for quick product often too insistent to allow for a detailed review of the work.

To take a leaf from Davesnow's book and throw roses onto my own stage, I am also an author of text books. Even after I and others have proofread each chapter my publisher always passes the work onto a professional proof reading service and even they occasionally slip up as some readers are quick to point out.

Peter Ware
 
I am surprised that no-one has so far mentioned the one area where spelling errors are a real pain in Trainz (to bring the thread back onto topic).

Spelling and typing errors in tags in the config.txt files often lead to assets being labelled as faulty and can prevent them from working. While most can be relatively easy to fix if you know where to look and what the correct spelling should be, they are annoying.

Some common examples:

catagory-class instead of category-class
USA instead of US

Peter Ware
 
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