A little bit of background here; I'm an English student and a writer of (mostly unfinished) stories, I take great pride in my ability to spell, and if I don't know how to spell a particular word I'll look it up and learn how. So, as you can probably imagine, bad spelling is one of the things that can particularly annoy me. I know to some people it's not a major thing to get annoyed by, but it's my eyes that are offended by this, so I don't care about other peoples opinions!
I believe that bad spelling is down to two things, poor education and pure damn laziness, and I'm going to be offensive on both of those things!
I'll tackle laziness first. Back in the day, when mobile phones were a new toy to play with and text messaging was in its infancy, you had limits on how many characters you could fit in to a text and thus shortening words such as 'you' to 'u' became the norm. Now I could deal with that, albeit with a gritting of the teeth, but it was acceptable to a degree. But here's where I get a bit miffed, communications technology has moved on from those prehistoric times, we are no longer limited in our messages, so why is lazy spelling still so prevalent? I see some people trying to explain it away with pitiful excuses, like "it saves time to write ur instead of you're." Seriously?? It takes a few fractions of a second longer to write a word properly, just what the fuck were you planning to do with that fraction of time you saved? Solve world hunger? Cure cancer? Does it really affect your life to hit a few extra keys on the keyboard? Now in my opinion (key word to notice there is OPINION), bad spelling just makes you look like an uneducated moron, and it baffles me as to why people show themselves up to the world in this way.
Obviously all of this is just my opinion, and like someone once said, 'opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one and they all stink', so you can ignore all of what I say, but please be aware that if you write shit like "2mora", "4eva" and "h8" (yes I've seen those three used recently), then in my mind I am strangling you with acid soaked barbed wire!
Now onto poor education, and despite what I said earlier about being offensive I can be a slight bit more lenient here ... well to a degree. Not everyone is brilliant in school, some people just never grasp what it is they're being taught, they can be cut some slack because at least they do try and communicate properly, if atrociously, even if they never do get the whole 'there', 'they're' and 'their' stuff correctly. It sill makes my eyes bleed when I have to read what they're trying to say, but I don't always feel like disembowelling them and stamping on their entrails. But there are those who simply refuse to learn, they spend over a decade in school and leave less educated than when they started! Slight over-exaggeration there maybe, but you know where I am coming from. I suppose these people can be put firmly in the lazy camp. These are the people who I seem to encounter more frequently than others and thus are the people I most frequently think about visiting horrible tortures upon!
(Just a quick lesson for folks!)
I feel as though I must add an afterword here, for those who don't really know me.
This post was mainly written in jest, I don't really wish any kind of violence upon anyone. Yes bad spelling does grate on me, but not in a psychotic kind of way. A lot of good friends of mine are not great with the written word, I don't judge them on this, their overall character is far more important. So if anyone reading this is any way offended, don't be, I'm sure there is a lot about me you could all pick on!
Now go forth and eat a dictionary!
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