are you particular with spelling?

Hi there, I never had any problem with people when it comes to wrong spelling, as long as I can understand what they're trying to say, I never really try to make a big deal of it. The thing that just bothers me sometimes is the grammatical construction of their sentences, as you will encounter some posts which are composed of phrases that really don't fit together even though they are almost perfect in spelling, it could really be hard to make any sense of it. Don't get me wrong, I didn't say that I don't like these people who are trying to learn and communicate, my point is just that proper GRAMMAR & SPELLING can really help one to express him/herself better so that it could ignite the responsive quality from people and we'll all be benefiting from that. I've always had been critical with my own spelling. When I'm responding to a certain discussion and an obscure word runs across my mind, I always try to check what it means and it's proper spelling in my e-Dictionary so I won't be making vague comments. But sending text messages through cellular phones is a rather different story for me as I usually send long "txts" to my friends and that means that I'm more susceptible to the temptations of abbreviating and/or 'shortening of words'.

I used to check other people's work when I was in highschool since I was an editor in our school paper. And to be honest, I AM particular with spelling coz it's a shame if you don't get your spelling right. But there are just times when y ou can't help getting your words mispelled. One good example, like you said, text messaging. And dear cuz, you know pretty well that I do mispell my words for the sake of keeping it short. So I guess it depends. But just make sure that writing in short form doesn't affect your spelling.

Yes, I am very particular with spelling especially from professional people because we had already earned our diploma. But I don't expect it from somebody who has a poor command on English language because usually it is not their main language. But then, it is expected from students because they are learning in school. You are right, youngters nowdays are digressing because of text messages and chatting. They wanted to do shortcut with all the words so that they can talk or text faster. Hopefully they can realize that when they go out in the workforce, knowing how to spell is very important.

If you don't like bad spellers then mylot is not the right place for you. Pretty well half the people on here misspell words. For many it is a language barrier and I have no problem with that. You can tell when a person is genuine regardless if their English if perfect or not. At least they are trying and that is something.

It's a good practice that you should always check your spelling all the time and be keen about it. Just don't expect everybody's good in it especially the foreigner. Philippines have a high literacy rate that's why most Filipinos are very good in it. But Americans just write as how they say it. They're not too conscious about it. I have a niece who's in grade 1 now. She's good in her spelling. Her being inquisitiveness make her good in it. She also send text messages, but when we reply, all words should be in correct spelling so as not to confuse her. It's a bad habit since she's still developing.

i hope if i were u as a struggle a lot in spelling test. i remember those days when i was small and my teacher would beat me mercilessly just for spelling. i always thought that i would never improve but i tried hard on it just becouse i thought it to be very important after maths for me(my favourite subject). i remember once during a spelling test most of my spelling were currect but my teacher had wrong for most questions i went back to my teacher to show it to her in reply i got 2 slaps in front of the whole class.

I've always been a poor speller. I think it would be easier here on MyLot of the had a built in spel checker. But once I hit 500 I can start typing my responses in Word, speel check them then paste them into MyLot. Hopefully that will help...

First and foremost i do. But, soory to inform you that if you are looking at mylot and speeling correctness forget it. some times its due to language bar , spmetime due to huried typing sometime some more reasons for faulty spellings so dont get disheartened, there are some people who still have high regards for correctness.

Since I was in the preschool, I was always a part of the spelling contests. I have been always particular about my spelling for I would have very good first impressions. I am not really a perfectionist about it but I require myself to spell correctly for I want to be used to it. As for the spell checker, Mozilla Firefox, a better browser than Internet Explorer, have a built in spell checker. You can check if your spelling is right in every website you'll go to. :)