I don't get why you would waste time correcting other members typos. I don't think you should correct them. I think you should leave the posts how they typed them.
I proof read my sons assignments sometimes and correct his spelling errors. He is 11 though, these are adults. If they can't spell or that is the way they talk, I don't think you should be editing their posts.
That is a good point. I guess his contention is that 'this is a linguistics board". Personalli i leave some of my typos in- my feeling on this is to give my opponenty a false sense of security. Then i hit 'em with something profound....Works every time.
HAHA John. So you intentionally make spelling mistakes to throw us off huh?
What a coincidents so do I![]()
Interesting. Ignorance is a point of view.
Do the languages of India have more phonetically consistent spelling? There are no European languages that are half as poor in that regard as English and French. I would guess that Danish comes next; it's full of silent letters and vowels that don't sound the way they're spelled. Some of them, like Turkish, Finnish, Czech and Hungarian, are almost computer-perfect.I never look at spelling mistakes because I come from a country where such mistakes are common. English is not a fluent language for 98% of Indians. I never heard of anyone deliberately dumbing down though.
As an applicant for Fraggle Rocker's current but obviously controversially held post, I will give you a sample edited version of SAM's post.Interesting. Ignorance is a point of view.
Welsh ?fraggle said:I would guess that Danish comes next
Do the languages of India have more phonetically consistent spelling? There are no European languages that are half as poor in that regard as English and French. I would guess that Danish comes next; it's full of silent letters and vowels that don't sound the way they're spelled. Some of them, like Turkish, Finnish, Czech and Hungarian, are almost computer-perfect.
As an editor in the field of I.T., I work with the writing of a lot of Indian people. I don't find spelling to be one of their more common types of errors. It's usually grammar--not exactly incorrect but just awkward. Or idioms; they write things like "Both physical as well as virtual storage," which is redundant.
I'm not familiar with the spelling systems of the Celtic languages. Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton--can anyone tell us about them?Welsh ?