A friendly reminder

[Karen]

Originally posted by G.P.girl
i'm a very bad typer adn i have a bad habit of abbreiviating my words(and misspelling them ) but i think abbrevitating is different than slang, using u instead of you is slang. pics instead of pictures is abbreviating(sp?)<--is that bad to? thanks for reminding us

Abbreviating is different from slang, but both can make your posts difficult for others to read. If you have difficulty spelling, one thing that some people do is type their posts into Word, spell check it, then copy and paste into the posting dialog box.

Learning to type better will help in all your future schooling, trust me!

[mugsy]

GP....I totally agree with Karen. Maybe you could work on your typing here and it will help you at school. Good idea about using Word and then copying and pasting. They not only do spell check, but grammar check as well...although I speak from experience that the grammar check is not that impressive. I try to type worksheets and I spend more time correcting their corrections than I do typing the worksheet! lol

[G.P.girl]

well i'm taking a typing class in school...but i'm just naturally a bad speller but i try

[Moose]

Great idea to type posts in Word and do spell check and whatnot, Karen. When words are spelled correctly, it can make a post a lot easier to understand...and helps people read through them a little smoother instead of having to stop and figure out what word someone is trying to spell.

[Twisterdog]

*does a happy dance all around the room*

I am SO happy to see this thread. THANK YOU, Karen!

This definately needed to be said!

[G.P.girl]

does that mean i can't say lol and stuff and rotfl?

[micki76]

Originally posted by G.P.girl
does that mean i can't say lol and stuff and rotfl?

I certainly hope not! That'd be a little to strict for a message board.

[Moose]

No lols? Psh...if this is a no-no, I'm gonna have some trouble.

[Karen]

Originally posted by G.P.girl
does that mean i can't say lol and stuff and rotfl?

No, you can use those, but ocaisionally, someone should post an explanation after they use one, like rotfl (rolling on the floor laughing), etc. Just to initiate new people to the parlance, you understand!

[Moose]

Got it, thanks for clearing it up Karen.

Hmm...so that's what rotfl means? I never knew that...lol.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Originally posted by Moose
Hmm...so that's what rotfl means? I never knew that...lol.

See Brooke? You learn something new everyday.

[Moose]

...and it's a good thing I learned that.

[Truffles]

hey,

i do agree about this,but there is one thing i need to say.see i have epilepsy as you may know and i also have deslexia.anyway i'll try my real best to spell things good to understand.

but if i don't then i'm so sorry see right after a seizure or a few days after even i spell things weirdly and don't realize it till after i recooperated from the seizure if you see something like this (i loovee myy dogg sso muchh)then you will know that i had just had a seizure also my hands can get shakey at times and t sometimes spell terriblely

and i notice that as i grow i type real bad and usually i eidit it to make it more readable <<<<<< but sometimes i forget to edit it my memory is awful but i'll cerntly give spelling corectly a try but please understand w/ deslexia and epilepsy in my life i can't make it perfect ok????????

one other thing we can try and do is break our posts into small paragraphs cause i know some people have a hard time reading posts that are all in real long paragraphs.

i am one of them if i see a post that is real long and not broken into small paragraphs then i can't make since out of them aand i just don't read it cause its too hard to understand.

anyway i'll try my best thanks for understanding,take care

marylyn

[HoRsELUvR]

I dont even know the meanings of a lot of internet slang even though all my friends do, so it bugs me when people type stuff like that because i dont know what they're saying.

[Karen]

Truffles, all we ask is that you try! If you want, I could fix some spelling mistakes for you, just let me know - I know some dyslexic folk, and know that no amount of trying can make up for it entirely.

I dont even know the meanings of a lot of internet slang even though all my friends do,
so it bugs me when people type stuff like that because i dont know what they're saying.

What would you like defined?