Are you bothered by spelling errors?

[jlittle]

often leaves out the words "to be"

To me that doesn't sound like leaving out "to be", that's using -ed where standard English uses -ing:

The clothes need washing. The grass needs mowing. The car needs washing.

The "to be" form is subtly different, using the passive. Leave out "to be" and the passive is left out; I suspect that, since the examples are all chores, that is the intention, and the plain English would be:

Wash the clothes. Mow the grass. Wash the car.

But that sounds too bossy... some kind of half-way house is being attempted, being bossy without sounding bossy. Might sound familiar to those with a spouse.

[jpenguin]

Misuse like go/come can be irritating, some mistakes totally change the meaning of a sentence too.

"Everyone's not here" doesn't mean the same as "not everyone's here"

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[Bings]

Are you bothered by spelling errors?

on.

[andystmartin]

My first day attending college I was looking for the library. I walked up to someone and asked, "Can you tell me where the library is at?"

He responded, "Sorry, at this school we use proper English and do not end sentences with prepositions."

I corrected myself, "OK, can you tell me where the library is at, *******!"

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Sorry, old joke -- I couldn't resist.

[GreyGeek]

Translation: *************** = "my dear fellow!"

[Qqmike]

I find out--now--that I'm bothered by people talking about being bothered by spelling errors. Self discovery: one of the many nice things about this place.

[GreyGeek]

I find out--now--that I'm bothered by people talking about being bothered by spelling errors. Self discovery: one of the many nice things about this place.

Triggered?
Out Of Focus isn't a safe space!

[oldgeek]

As a retired English teacher in a bilingual school where Spanish is the first language, I've run into all sorts of spelling errors with my students, and even with some colleagues. English has strange spelling with odd rules, partly due to the fact that 90% of its vocabulary does not come from Old English, the root of our language, but from other languages all over the world. Some people cannot spell very well, and that's it. The worst speller in this forum is Vinny, but he has explained his difficulty quite well, I think, and communicates quite well and gives very good advice. I'd rather have badly spelled good advice than bad advice correctly spelled.

[chimak111]

Triggered? ...
Out Of Focus isn't a safe space!

Pomposity triggers me ... when someone concurs instead of just agreeing

[dibl]

I do notice spelling and grammar errors, but they only bother me if the author is claiming some kind of intellectual or moral superiority. If you don't know a person's history, you don't know how they acquired the skills they have, or missed out on the skills they don't have. What is really annoying to me is when someone makes a really solid technical point or argument, and some propeller-head finds it so necessary to point out that the author should have used "they're" and not "their".

[GreyGeek]

What trips me up the most is the Auto Checker replacing a misspelled word with one I didn’t mean, like changing the misspelled word to “whole” when I meant “hole”, and I didn’t catch it. Like in the mesg above about my wife’s heart.

[Qqmike]

... and precious versus previous ... THAT one can really make a mess of things! "Your precious complaint was ill-founded, so we dismissed it ..."

[TWPonKubuntu]

... and precious versus previous ... THAT one can really make a mess of things! "Your precious complaint was ill-founded, so we dismissed it ..."

LOL! I see this often on another site. The owners are not native English speakers and it shows when they try to use the current slang phrases of our younger generations. Something along these lines: "Well, aren't you just previous!" or "Your my main squeeze.". I don't think they have a proof reader on the staff who is English proficient...

At least it is worth a laugh.

[chimak111]

Reddit has a bot!

[TWPonKubuntu]

Wow! Could they make it more irritating, perhaps using audio and the voice of a grade school teacher?