Fruit Machine Chat

does any one really care in the 2000s coz i dont this site is about bandits not about english some of you old school need to chill out

I do agree with this one! a lot of learn to spell properly posts etc etc. Ok we dont want to be reading txt msg posts or CAPITAL LETTER POSTS, but we could take it a bit easier on a mis-spelt word here and there.

Lets be honest its not mega important, but it can be hard to read when the post is lacking comma's, full stops and apostrophes. Sometimes its laziness and other times it can be a typo, most of the time its lack of education, but hey, I don't have any letters after my name so who am I to comment.

Grammar my arse!

It depends what sort of image you want to project of yourself. If the writer really wants to appear as some braindead, uneducated tosser that is up to them.

I certainly can't be arsed to read any posts that that are just one long solid block of text with no puctuation at all.

I dont mind so much people when people type all in caps or even the 'well known' txt speak abbreviations, like "u", "yea" etc. It annoys me when people don't use grammer and / or use some of the more subtle abbreviations. This means i have to try and work what your trying to say. And when people write their posts all in one sentence and (not so much for shorter posts) don't use paragraphs. (FUN FACT: A long post without paragraphs makes me less inclined to read it in the first place!) If i can't read / understand what your saying, i'll stop reading. And that means i won't reply, which in turn may mean you don't get that one reply that might have been helpful, when everyone else in the thread was flaming you for being a newbie....

Of course, Streakypoos is the one exception to all this. His long, "blooping" posts but a smile one my face.

EDIT: Just to add, talking text speak also makes you appear to be a 14 year old and / or a chav.

Bad grammar is a pet hate of mine i'm afraid. You can usually get an indication of a persons intelligence by how they type things out. That's not to say people who abbreviate and use text slang aren't bright, but they project completely the wrong image of themselves if they are.

just to add had no up bringing never went school not a pikey got two kids and a misses english dont mean nowt nower days look how many poles and god nos what else is here

But Polish people and the like kind of have an excuse for it. English may not be their first language, but the point is they try to type / speak in the proper way. Fair enough if you haven't been taught how to write then you can't write. But for the majority of people who have, they don't really have an excuse.

As for it not being important these days, on Internet forums that may be true. But i don't think it applies to real life. What if you job required you to send letters to customers either regulaly or just occasionally? (which a hell of a lot of jobs do.) I doubt you would last very long if you signed the letter "sozzy 4 my bd englisssh, its nowt important those dazs tho is it?"

got a job can get by dont mean im thick could be a fuckin doley i chose not to be no matter how much of a noob i sound

to be fair your gay aint ya

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lol wtf was that all about?????????

Yes Megastreak140, people do care in the 2000s and it does matter.

As I've said before, the odd spelling mistake doesn't matter. I make them myself. The odd grammar mistake when posting in a hurry is ok too. It's when people just don't care and post long, unpunctuated, mis-spelled rubbish.

It might not make a difference in your day to day life if you work in a factory, or on a building site, or if you play fruit machines for a living, BUT, we're attempting to communicate with each other using a written medium here and when people make no effort to get it right, it annoys a lot of people.

Perhaps the mods could look at attaching a spell check to the forum, to help people who would like to make an effort, but who don't spell too well.

p.s. I love the irony that the title of the thread is mis-spelled.

pokerpete wrote:p.s. I love the irony that the title of the thread is mis-spelled.

Me too

Not bothering to construct sentences coherently and not punctuating them correctly may seem trivial to some, but to the majority it seems downright lazy; the result being that the forum begins to look tatty.

It genuinely worries me that people in this day and age are unable to express themselves in the way that they wish to simply because they haven't been taught right from wrong.

Let's face it: basic English and grammar are not difficult things to master.

It would appear that there are some intellectual types on here so i was wondering if anybody knows the exact permiatations(SPELL)of sept 2008.
cheers