Spelling does count in life!

[allanimalswelcome]

I have to say I absolutly HATE those huge paragraph posts. You have no clue where a sentence starts or ends and it's absolutly CRAZY!

Most of the time I skip over them

~Rachel

[Randi]

Originally posted by Pam
Randi - excellent observations!!

First off - "Than" is used as a comparative statement - comparing this to that. (example: I am older than you!) "Then" usually refers to a time or sequence (example: "Then" we went to the store.)

Thanks for the nice words, Pam! I felt pretty sure that I had it right, just didn't know whether Americans used it in a different manner, because I have seen it quite often.

[primabella]

Originally posted by aly
[B]I can't stand it when people confuse the words 'their', 'there', and 'they're'. Also 'your' and 'you're'. Its not that hard. Its just complete laziness.

ack...I mix those words up all the time! It's not laziness, I just forget. Sorry. lol I realized I had been saying 'your' instead of 'you're' a lot. lol

I also used to write in all small letters. I didn't know it bugged anyone until somebody in another thread mentionned it. Glad I changed or I would never get any replies

I agree, paragraphs are important. I try to paragraph my posts when I can, because I know a big post that seems like it has no end just doesn't interest me.

I don't know if I can even stand this thread. It sounds like English class all over again. lol The things that bug me most are pretty much mentionned already. No capitals (it bugs me too now), no paragraphs, easy words mispelled (not including type-o's - I think I spelled that wrong ), ect...

If you want to say a word you can't really spell, I find (sp?) very useful hehe

[gini]

I think that this has been a good and productive thread. At least everyone was able to get a few things off of their chest. Hopefully it will make others more aware and they will want their posts to be taken seriously when they have something to say.

Pet Talk is just different. The very forum deserves respect and thought before we post. And then it becomes more fun for all of us.

I wanted to add that the one thing that probably bugs me the most is seeing "u" instead of "you". I mean come on........it is only two more little letters to type.........

[lovemyshiba]

Originally posted by popcornbird


Dats reely kool...............etc..............

um, it's supposed to be KEWL

[gini]

Originally posted by lovemyshiba
um, it's supposed to be KEWL

Sure glad you caught that!

[aly]

Originally posted by popcornbird

I agree that its annoying when people deliberately mis-spell words, but we all need to understand that many people posting here speak English as a 2nd language and may not know it well enough to spell everything right or type with perfect grammer. Others are still young, and some kids just happen to catch on with spelling slower than others.

I wasn't directing my complaint towards them. Its those people who speak with the internet lingo and replace 's' with 'z' and stuff like that.

[aly]

Originally posted by Cincy'sMom
My husband recently pointed out to me how bad some of my posts are, by taking one, correcting it in red, and Pm'ing it to me.

Hehehehehe!!!! That's REALLY funny

Originally posted by Randi

Another strange use of words is: E.g. I would of been .... instead of: I would have been. I've seen it used that way quite a few times in posts and wondered ...

I think people say 'would of' because it sounds sort of like 'would've' (which you can use in place of 'would have'). I guess they just get used to saying would've and some people think its would of.

Originally posted by primabella
ack...I mix those words up all the time! It's not laziness, I just forget. Sorry. lol I realized I had been saying 'your' instead of 'you're' a lot. lol

Oh Prima, it doesn't bother me at all when you do it. If someone just doesn't know, thats fine and really doesn't bother me. Your posts are very well written so I can forgive some grammar slip ups (jk)

[Rachel]

Although we should all try to do our best with the spelling and proper grammer, mistakes do happen. Half of those who were mentioning different things that bothered them had errors in their posts, so let's not get too critical in calling people lazy.

Skills that aren't used can be lost. I'd hate to think that there will be Pet Talkers who are hesitant to post for fear of making an error. Many of us have a limited amount of time to spend reading and posting. Yes, I do want my posts to be coherent and to present myself in the best possible light, not only here at Pet Talk but anyplace I put two words together, but let it be known that I will make mistakes, and I realize others will too. I'd rather people are able to communicate their stories and feelings, and express themselves freely, than to be too hesitant to post because they aren't confident in their written word.

[sasvermont]

Think what you want, but some of the people here either don't care or are lazy or maybe both. The majority of the people posting here are fine, fine, fine and that is not the group I am addressing.

We let way too many things slide here in the USA and we end up with lackadaisical, indifferent workers in the end.

This is not a dress rehearsal, this is it. These are real time experiences and we are presenting ourselves to the world when we type here.

Of course there are mistakes made - no one has said that they are troubled by simple mistakes. It is not that difficult to spell correctly and/or maybe check your post. What about dictionaries? We're not talking perfect Rachel, just so that it makes sense.

I think we need to have much higher standards if we want to gain respect in this ever so quickly changing world ...and then keep the respect. I think it is called language skills..... minimum not maximum - that's all we're asking!

I have said just about as much as I can say about this. It is not to make anyone feel stupid or dumb or to make them feel uncomfortable so they don't want to post.

Amen.

SAS

[primabella]

Originally posted by aly
Oh Prima, it doesn't bother me at all when you do it. If someone just doesn't know, thats fine and really doesn't bother me. Your posts are very well written so I can forgive some grammar slip ups (jk)

lol thanks

[lizbud]

Skills not used can be lost. What concerns me more is that
I feel these skills were never acquired in the first place.I don't
know if it's the quality of classes offered in today's schools, the
experience of the teachers, or lack of parental involvement in
children's education. Do they even teach phonics or sentence
structure anymore? Do students still learn how to diagram a
sentence? It's really sad that these basic language skills have
not been mastered by the time students reach their teen years.

I understand typos, I do it myself, but the" every other word"
glaring mistakes makes reading some posts impossible.

[zippy-kat]

Originally posted by lizbud
Do students still learn how to diagram a sentence?

Ya know, I didn't learn how to do that until college...and even then it was glossed over!

[sasvermont]

I learned to diagram a sentence in 4th or 5th grade. It was painful to learn, as I recall..... I suspect the practice bit the dust a while ago. We also had spelling tests nearly every day and were made to write the word over and over again if we spelled something incorrectly.

I remember once handing in a paper in 6th grade that had the word radio misspelled throughout the entire paper. To this day I don't recall how I DID misspell it - I think I erased the incorrect spelling from my memory. The teacher was livid when she saw it, graded me harshly and then required that I write the word radio, 500 times. Talk about remembering how to spell a certain word!

I think our schools are dumbing down for some reason and it just doesn't make sense. Could it be "main-streaming" that is requiring our standards to drop? I can recall the children/students being classified and put in certain reading groups and I wonder if that is still being done.... Or is everyone in the same group in a very neutral learning mode? This is what I mean by dumbing down.... Going to the lowest level in expectation rather than the highest.

I know that special education is nearly a thing of the past and many of the learning disabled are main streamed.

Since I am not in the education field I should keep my trap shut about the schooling thing! I don't want to offend anyone any more than I have already done!

Off to the lake for a swim.

SAS

[cali]

I can recall the children/students being classified and put in certain reading groups and I wonder if that is still being done....

some schools have LRP, I tranfered to several schools in my 9 years of elementry school I had tranfered 5 times, and all the schools learned different things at different times, so I really did not learn several things because of all the transfers, but in grade 2 after my first transfer I was automaticly put in LRP but its only for reading mostly. I dont know why I was in it, the only thing they did not like was my a's they forced me to make them with a tail I had been tought to make then straight at the school before that, anyway I was one of the best readers in the class, and I was paired with the not so good people to teach them to read, so why I was in LRP I have no idea, but I hated it, it made me seem dumb. so my mom and dad wrote them a note asking the school to take me out of it lol, and they had a thing for the really smart kids to, and then everyone else was just normal. I dont know if they do it any more, grade 1-6 was a long time ago lol