Libra
02-03-2008, 03:03 AM
To be fair I touch type all the time and I very rarely make a mistake.
Slang is used quite alot within messages and posts on gayspeak, and I do it through text messages and all the rest, so I know people I speak to an understand it.
As to when someone incorrectly spells a word, as long as the same letters are there and the word look reasonably alright, our brain skims over the words and can understand anyway.
The sentance which was picked, to be fair you can understand that if you read it. "Da" instead of "The", and they added a "z" on etc etc.
As stephen pointed out, the english language has changed ALOT over the past couple of hundred years, and this slang, or shortened typing is just another adaptation. Im sure most people type out in slang, or shorten words in a rush, or doing things such as texting?
I mean I type pretty much using full english, and yet im welsh and had it drilled into me to try using welsh, which is why now and again I tend to spell words wrong. The most common for me is business because its busnes in welsh, and alot of welsh words are very similar apart from the odd vowel, or different letter.
As for using spell checker, most spell checkers on computers are american programmed, for instance word constantly tells me im spelling words wrong, and in a rush I change them to hand it in, to be told im using the american spelling not the english, so I pretty much avoid spell checker.
Just beause people type online in "code" doesnt mean they cant spell. Online is somewhere to relax, where you can be yourself, without worrying about writing formal, which lets face it, all students have to do all day, most people working do all day, and generally everybody does all day.
The internet is about communication, but also about sharing things and learning to understand different ways. This is what I think computer language is, and we generally need to adapt to it. We could moan all day about spelling, but just to clarify, in schools spelling tests are required every month. Well in my high school they were anyway, and exams, (FYI people), you gain or lose marks based on spelling and punctuation, also grammar. Which again does add extra stress one exams, and the exam boards are making exams harder, another instance would be in english, always been open book? Every time I came to an english exam, they change the rules to being a closed book exam meaning Id pretty much have to learn a novel.
Slang is used quite alot within messages and posts on gayspeak, and I do it through text messages and all the rest, so I know people I speak to an understand it.
As to when someone incorrectly spells a word, as long as the same letters are there and the word look reasonably alright, our brain skims over the words and can understand anyway.
The sentance which was picked, to be fair you can understand that if you read it. "Da" instead of "The", and they added a "z" on etc etc.
As stephen pointed out, the english language has changed ALOT over the past couple of hundred years, and this slang, or shortened typing is just another adaptation. Im sure most people type out in slang, or shorten words in a rush, or doing things such as texting?
I mean I type pretty much using full english, and yet im welsh and had it drilled into me to try using welsh, which is why now and again I tend to spell words wrong. The most common for me is business because its busnes in welsh, and alot of welsh words are very similar apart from the odd vowel, or different letter.
As for using spell checker, most spell checkers on computers are american programmed, for instance word constantly tells me im spelling words wrong, and in a rush I change them to hand it in, to be told im using the american spelling not the english, so I pretty much avoid spell checker.
Just beause people type online in "code" doesnt mean they cant spell. Online is somewhere to relax, where you can be yourself, without worrying about writing formal, which lets face it, all students have to do all day, most people working do all day, and generally everybody does all day.
The internet is about communication, but also about sharing things and learning to understand different ways. This is what I think computer language is, and we generally need to adapt to it. We could moan all day about spelling, but just to clarify, in schools spelling tests are required every month. Well in my high school they were anyway, and exams, (FYI people), you gain or lose marks based on spelling and punctuation, also grammar. Which again does add extra stress one exams, and the exam boards are making exams harder, another instance would be in english, always been open book? Every time I came to an english exam, they change the rules to being a closed book exam meaning Id pretty much have to learn a novel.
[COLOR="Purple"]As I grow to understand less and less,
I learn to love it more and more. [/COLOR]
I learn to love it more and more. [/COLOR]
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