::giggle::

I used to be a stickler for good spelling (and I used to BE a good speller, too. I did actually think it WAS "attrocious"), but these days I'm less fanatical. My nieces have beaten it out of me, by IMing me with what I'd call heavily chav'd spelling. Correct spelling, to them, is irrelevent to the communication of meaning, which is everything. AKA MSN.

When I read Harry Potter, I was horrified to find "should of".. but that's common language, today. How can I dispute it? And "shouldn't've".. it SHOULD be "shouldn't have", and yet who doesn't SAY "shouldn't've"? Double-apostrophe contractions are the future, I guess!

Quote from SamH :

::giggle::

I used to be a stickler for good spelling (and I used to BE a good speller, too. I did actually think it WAS "attrocious"), but these days I'm less fanatical. My nieces have beaten it out of me, by IMing me with what I'd call heavily chav'd spelling. Correct spelling, to them, is irrelevent to the communication of meaning, which is everything. AKA MSN.

When I read Harry Potter, I was horrified to find "should of".. but that's common language, today. How can I dispute it? And "shouldn't've".. it SHOULD be "shouldn't have", and yet who doesn't SAY "shouldn't've"? Double-apostrophe contractions are the future, I guess!

I blame it all on overpriced, limited-lenght SMS messages.

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Oh yeah. I'm by no means a perfect speller or grammar genius, but "could of" is one of the most annoying things for me, or any replacement of "'ve" with "of" for that matter. Even worse than their/they're and your/you're. :mad:

You're right I should of known better

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I blame it all on overpriced, limited-lenght SMS messages.

It started long before then. Just that boom helped it become common place. Before SMS kicked off I rarely talked to anyone online who used bad shorthand, some was used, such as u, 2, 4, and what have you, but it was nothing like what it is today.

wll nw we av got all dis sorted. i wd jst lyk to say. MSN nd SMS hsn;t effecterd me splling tall ppl sll understnd me dnt tey?

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Sorry i couldnt resist it :-D - on a serious note though, my spelling is quite atrocious (one t <G>) most times, but i at least make an effort where it counts