myber92fs

Don't you guys care how illiterate you sound ??? I cant spell but I do know how to use spell check .It makes it very hard too understand some of the posts. I cut the guys form other countries slack cause English may not be there 1st language. But the guys from the USA ??

ThunderbirdJunkie

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myber...i've made many comments to the non-American citizens that their English is usually better than the English of some of our posters.

Believe me, I understand. children are our future, and our future is to be enslaved by an alien race from another galaxy

jakjr

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Being from the USA doesn't mean much, I'd say at least 50% of my town can only talk broken English.

gunnut

I agree with your comment! I'm no english teacher... but some of the posts are horrible!

-Inverted-

I think for some people it's not the fact they can't spell, it's that they are in a hurry. I know alot of my miss-spellings come from my keyboard, the keys dont move as free as I would like, it's also alot smaller, so it's easier to push the wrong key coming from Desktop PC's,

jdmkyosho

Hey your from Rockford!! Some people seriously do need to lern how to spel though.

Rare

hookt on fonicks workt 4 me!

-SomeGuy-

no it didnt[sm=rolleyes.gif]

ThunderbirdJunkie

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wut r u takkin bout? u cnat rd this? y not?

gerwen

/snicker
Just messin with you. No offence intended.

I wish more people were like you and would spend just a little time making sure their posts are easy to read (which yours was). Even if a person can't spell well, it's not hard to read over a post to make sure it's understandable.

IBrakeForNobody

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I agree...everyone that talks in the "l33t" form needs to learn that this is not a chatroom. If your un such a hrry thatt to post what you need to say, then go to achatt rom,. Its not like you and someone are competing for who can post what thought in what thread first.

Also, to go along with the chat room thing, this IS NOT a chat room, so please type in regular English. If you type proficient enough to get a coherent thought out, then typing "today" rather than "2day" takes like 0.0001 second longer, and typing "Please" instead of "plz" takes like 1 second longer. I try to sound more professional when I type something rather than a thread like (no, these are not actual posts):

"I need healp to get my truck started!!! Plz help! i want ot go bash with my friends 2morrow"
"waht have you done so far. try checking the feul lines and see if the engine is priming"

jdmkyosho

I agree with IBrakeForNobody . I hate when people type like 13 year old girls on AIM.

R/C fan-addict

Guys from the US? In case you haven't noticed the US has a huge highschool drop out rate. And overall our school system is getting really bad. There was a 60 minutes show entitled "Stupid in America" which showed how fake the "no child left behind" act is cause they filmed kids in schools playing monopoly, jumping on desks, being proud of getting D's!

Tigger N. Bennie

Myself, I don't need to watch 60 Minutes to get the message. However, that must be what it takes for some people--meaning, they won't pull themselves away from the television and the only way they ever learn of something is via the television. Before the school year started, one of my friends moved overseas so he could educate his children there instead of in the US. I thought that was pretty bad, but I've met a lot of people in the educational system and considering who is in charge--wait, NO politics. Anyway, I have to log off so I can watch television. That was a joke by the way.

| OK | Preview | Cancel | Spell Check |

"Spell Check" button anyone?

Heck, what about a "GRAMMAR" Button?

Ron Olson

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When I see poorly typed postings, I don't know who to blame, a lazy kid or the public school systems.
When my son was in school, I go to the teacher-parent conferences and when going nito his classroom, I'd be shocked at what I'd see on the walls, poorly written signs made by the teachers.
What scares me is that if you haven't heard the news, there is a new thing here in town called the Kalamazoo Promise. Do a search for it, you'll find it interesting as there are anonymous people that donated enough money to pay for students college education if you live here and this isn't a one-horse town by a long shot!
I see words in here that you should have known to spell at 8 years old. Try to show some intelligence when posting as who really wants to respond to the Village Idiot? Who wants to take the advice of a lousy speller?
Yes, I did bother to correct my mistakes before posting this, and on a keyboard that my son spilled pop into last week.

ThunderbirdJunkie

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Thank God I'm not the only one on the forums that says pop!

around here in the south, it's "coke"
"what kind of coke would you like?" "uh..coke?" "sorry, we have pepsi products"

Ron Olson

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It was Faygo Rock 'N Rye, I'm the Pepsi drinker.

Spdsk8er

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Bleh! coke and pepsi[:'(] ROOTY ROOT ROOT BEER!!!!

Ron Olson

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Normally he likes Faygo Root Beer but the wife got him some of that for a change.
Back to the subject at hand. I get into my sons case too for bad spelling, blame it on me as spelling was about the only thing that I excelled with in school. I still keep myself in practice by doing crossword puzzles.
People see me using big words in here but in reality I don't talk like this.

-Inverted-

I think alot of people do that as well, I know I dont say half the stuff when talking in reality compared to how I talk on the forums.

R/C fan-addict

yeah I don't use stuff like r= are u =you y= why w/e= whatever I don't use those I try to spell right but on the forums I don't really care. If it's homework I proofread and make sure the writing flows, there's no spelling errors, and there are no grammatical errors either. As for me watching TV all day I don't; I'm too busy bashing my R/C's!

*message has been spell checked*

ob nut

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School system, period end of story. When my daughter started spelling in class, they were taught to spell as it sounds, cuz it woodn't kauze the slower learners two feel bad.. [:@] And they wonder why kids can't spell...

Doahh

wi doo tha tel kidz two spel how it soundz bekause I am speling how it soundz and moast of thes werds are speled rong

Tigger N. Bennie

Is that Doahh or Duh?

annie_himself

Pop? That sounds so funny and you are not in the South at all.

I use AIM all the time but I do not type like that on the forums; I use "big" words instead of typing like a retard. I even type like this on AIM sometimes. I'm only 14 by the way.