Are you bothered by spelling errors?

[vinnywright]

LOL are we talking about me ?

I will rite this responce without using spell check for emfisis .

I am one of those people that is great with their hands and doing things and figuring things out that I may be working on , but spelling and knowing when to use it's or its or the like or gramer has never been somthing I could do .

wile I can read on a colage level I spell at about the 3ed grade level (and I'm 56) whitch is why I try to keep my responces to posts short and to the point as spellchecing all my errors and fixing the way it was riten in a long responce is tuff and time consuming for me .



Ops did I upset any one yet .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

You've always been perfectly clear, VINNY!
As a phonetic writer you are blazing a trail many current and future graduates will follow!

[SpecialEd]

I suspect that larger Kidney stones actually tear tissue in the process of passing, hence a possibility of infection entering the blood stream. Yes, I know, one's urine is *supposed* to be pure but many have chronic urinary tract infections, some below the threshold of notice, but there still the same. >>>>>>>>>

I am one of those with chronic UTIs. I have been a paraplegic for almost 38 years. My bladder is colonized as they say with bugs. My mantra for the past 38 years has been "push fluids!" Anything that interrupts the usual flow -- stones-- allows the bugs to come out of hiding and multiply. Hence stones, UTIs, sepsis.

[SpecialEd]

LOL are we talking about me ?

I will rite this responce without using spell check for emfisis . >>>>

Vinny you are the poster child for why one shouldn't judge a book by the spelling on its cover. Your spelling can be a chore for me to read sometimes but I read it anyway because I know, you know what you're talking about --that much is clear-- and the wealth of knowledge is worth tripping over a few misspelled words. Keep writing and I'll keep reading!

[jlittle]

... streptococcal infection in my leg...

I had chronic infections in my legs for years, until last year they started ulcerating and my doctor started talking about saving my legs. I should have had varicose veins fixed twenty years ago, but no doctor or nurse recognized the problem. Now if I don't wear compression stockings the slightest scratch gets really bad really quick.

Being 40-odd kg (70 lb) overweight doesn't help, so I've been intermittently fasting this year, 3 days a week. It's the only diet I've ever had much success with, and my test results are much improved. 10 kg down, 30 to go. I mention this because it supposedly can help with many health conditions.

Regards, John Little

[TWPonKubuntu]

Hmmmm... Is there a correlation between spelling, sepsis and kidney disease? Somebody should do a paper on that.

Vinny, I can understand what you write, so I don't cringe when I read it.

Without spellcheck, I'd be a literary basket cask (also a literal basket case). I can usually recognize when I have misspelled a word (and sometimes when it is misused), but my mind no longer gives me easy access to the correct spelling/usage. Welcome to old age...

[Goeroeboeroe]

Probably the only forum a thread about spelling can get mixed up with sepsis and kidneys, without a moderator getting wild.

My first language is Dutch, so I make mistakes if I write English. Probably I sometimes also use wrong words, or there may be better words.
I (almost) only reply if I can give some help, so if somebody has problems with my spelling: that's their problem.
Since this is (more or less) an international forum, there will be lots of people having problems with English.

I once had a girlfriend who had had a terrible youth. She was absolutely not stupid, but hat only five years of primary education and could hardly write. (In theory five years of school even isn't possible in The Netherlands, unless you have a very severe handicap or something like that.) She thought she was too dumb to learn. Later she went to a school for elder people, and she turned out to be an excellent pupil.
But the years she could not write Dutch without lots of errors, was that her fault? With a normal youth she would have learned perfect writing.
What I mean: some people simply can't write without errors, or in nice sentences. For whatever reason. I don't care at all. As long as I can understand it.
I think it's better somebody writes with a lot of errors and a lot of nice words, than with a lot of curses and swear words and no spelling errors.

(Ha, that's what I mean with second language. I use a spelling checker, look sometimes on Google translate, etc. But 'spelling error' has to be 'spelling mistake'. Since I'm Dutch and no professor in English language, I really can't feel or see the difference between 'error' and 'mistake'. And I think people reading this, will understand what I mean.)

O, and by the way: is the difference between 'color' and 'colour' already solved?

[Worzel]

Speak English? A language based on 4 centuries of old Italian, add in some 3 centuries of Viking, blend it with a massive dose of French overlayed with words culled from across the 'British Empire'... and still expect people to understand it?

My little gripe - a nerve that lays me out cold when IT decides I've done too much

[GreyGeek]

When I was in grad school I was walking across campus and met a Canadian student who asked me where I was going. “To take a Physics test”, I replied. “Where are you going to take it?”, he asked, with a grin on his face. He explained that in Canada students write tests, they do not take them anywhere. I responded that in America professors write the tests and students take them. Cultural diversity

[DoYouKubuntu]

My how this thread has evolved--and I love it!

I want to assure everyone that I had no one in particular in mind when I started this thread. I'd just been thinking about how much has changed since nearly dying, and the fact that spelling errors no longer grate on my nerves was front and center.

I agree with others that as long as a post is readable its errors don't affect me. There's the occasional post, not just here, that's so illegible I just shake my head and move on. Posts with no capitalization and no punctuation are routinely skipped. I figure that if the author can't be bothered with making their thoughts legible, I can't be bothered reading them!

[GreyGeek]

My wife was a litter bug. Use a Kleenex? Lay it down on the closest surface. Aggravated me to no end. After her 2nd heart surgery and nearly dying, seeing those rolled up used Kleenex gives me warm fuzzies because they tell me she is still around.

[DoYouKubuntu]

It's funny how things change, GG.

[jglen490]

Spelling errors to health issues. Interesting, but kinda strange.

Spelling errors, when done on purpose, are somewhat irksome - especially when most forums, word processors, and other ways of presenting the written word do a pretty good job of pointing out spelling errors. The occasional error - eh, who cares. Nobudies prefekt ...

[kenj70]

My wife is originally from Ohio and often leaves out the words "to be" in a sentence. The clothes needs washed. The grass needs mowed. It used to make me cringe. At least one of her adult sons speaks the same way. Occasionally, I have tried correcting her but she is an independent woman and insists the way she talks is OK. In recent years, reflecting on this odd way of speaking, I thought to myself, "Does her sentence make sense? Yes. Has it lost any vital information when she leaves it out? No.

So, maybe she has a point. A concise use of language, leaving out extraneous words, is perhaps a better way to go after all. What do you think about that?

Sounds like a number of members here and family are having serious health problems. I don't want to be indelicate but I do wonder if those of you having problems are aware of alternative health resources. I became aware of natural supplements and alternative practitioners many years ago. My wife and I, now in our old age (she 78), are still learning that there are things we can do, proactively, to improve our health and avoid what we call the dangerous and overly expensive medical/hospital/pharmaceutical cartel - and it is a cartel. We do see allopathic physicians, but only if absolutely necessary. They are very good at performing life-saving operations but usually abysmally poor at nutrition and preventative medicine.

For example of a new (to us) discovery, here are two YouTube videos that I just sent out to my family and friends. The first is from a chiropractor who is interviewing a patient who came to him with blood pressure 160/110 despite taking a prescription for it. In a few months his blood pressure went down to 120/75 and he no longer takes prescription blood pressure medicine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPEIXotGMs&t=116s

In the second video a doctor presents a rather lengthy but thorough explanation of a particular type of vitamin k2 which has been found to reverse osteoporosis, arthritis, atherosclerosis and perhaps more conditions. It seems unbelievable but true. We just started on it a few weeks ago and my wife no longer has leg cramps at night. I find that, after many years of low energy, I am more energetic than I have been in 40 years. Needless to say, we quite excited about this most recent discovery! (Please note that vitamin D3 must be taken at the same time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KGceRenn4

-=Ken=-

[Qqmike]

My wife is originally from Ohio and often leaves out the words "to be" in a sentence. The clothes needs washed.

That's how I often say it, too. Though born in the SW USA, I grew up in N. Illinois. Later lived in Indiana, too. The car needs washed.

I think with natural methods, you can greatly improve your health and even get off many pills: Diet (many issues here), exercise (various, including slow movements and stretches and walking), and relaxation (various, like deep slow breathing, progressive muscle deep relaxation, meditation, etc.). I'm controlling blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol/lipid panel, and other things with no Rx drugs, no herbs.