Topic on Breakfast right now. Result of debate is that grammar matters. So watch out for you're grammatical and spelling mistake's or FK will have youre gut's for garters and people will regret there mistakes for the rest of they're day's. 

Two bad !
Cheer's Phil.

Wots me mas ma got to do wif it?

Capitalisation also matters:

e.g. "I'm going to help my Uncle Jack off a horse" means something slightly different to "I'm going to help my uncle jack off a horse".

Cheers, Martyn

 

Their reely is know kneed to get angry about grammar, spelling, and, or punctuation: Aisle tell you this, "it has no reel affect"!

Yew spelled reel write!

Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 February 2015, 09:41:17 AM
Yew spelled reel write!

I'm aloud to get one write; I had two altar it.

Shaksep cold ner spel......

IanS

PS

MEEEOW.

Although not true this is interesting:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch by the Lngiusiitc Dptanmeret at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Quote from: getagrip on 17 February 2015, 09:55:06 AM
Although not true this is interesting:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch by the Lngiusiitc Dptanmeret at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

That's blolckos

Quote from: Fenton on 17 February 2015, 10:02:28 AM

That's blolckos

Wlel, cloud you raed it? I colud, no pblroem.

Do you think fish would agree there's no reel effect.

So could I.

I think a major part of the problem is the preponderance of mobile phones. Children and young adults for that matter, (not kids as they are young goats), today get into such a bad habit of using abbreviations all the time when writing text that it becomes second nature to do it all the time. Sad but true.

And, I would also point the finger of accusation at people here, using acronyms because it is quicker and easier that writing out the whole phrase. IMHO, IIRC, NSFW and SWMBO are ones I have come across with increasing regularity.

Call me a Luddite -no offence intended, I am using the original meaning here- when I say that unfortunately, it appears as though our language is getting subsumed by buzz-words, corporate-speak and street jargon which are almost completely unintelligible to someone who is a great advocate of both written and spoken English. I know language evolves -and ours is no different- but surely the basic rules should be unchanged.

(I'll probably get a ticking off because of bad grammar).