Common English Spelling Errors

[laepelba]

A friend of mine just posted this on her Facebook profile. It's good, so I thought I'd share it with you folks here. It's a bit crude at times, but not completely offensive. Enjoy!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

A friend of mine just posted this on her Facebook profile. It's good, so I thought I'd share it with you folks here. It's a bit crude at times, but not completely offensive. Enjoy!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

your write, is funny!

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by chileno

your write, is funny!

your write - and yous funny to!!

[Fazor]

Ha! I like that. I'm a terrible speller. Funnily enough, most of those are things I spell correctly. I do always misspell 'definitely' (I'm guilty of wanting to use an 'a'), and I do say 'alot', but I do know that is wrong. I don't care, because to me it's more visually pleasing than 'a lot'. And what *I* think is way more important than what the rest of the English-speaking world thinks.

I'll admit I make mistakes with apostrophes, like "it's" versus "its", but I do know those rules. My mistakes there come from typing too fast and not proofreading.

[CrOtALiTo]

Leapelda.

Thank you very much with your contribution.

Really and really you should to believe me, I liked me it bunch off, sometimes we the Spanish speakers writing bad the words, I did it.

I knew about the alot is bad wrote, really it should be a lot, and well the word it's (it's ok).


Please you leave me to keep the website in my mind.

[bobjenkins]

I wood go they´re but were all awear I can spell gould

No hay espacio para mejorar en perfección

[Jessica]

people who mix up you're and your....I don't think they are very smart.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Jessica

people who mix up you're and your....I don't think they are very smart.

Nothing to do with intelligence. Think about it.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Jessica

people who mix up you're and your....I don't think they are very smart.

Originally Posted by chileno

Nothing to do with intelligence. Think about it.

It has if there is any correlation between intelligence and awareness of language - you need to be aware of possessive adjectives and their use (and no, you don't need to know what they are called ).

[pjt33]

But dyslexics tend to be intelligent.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by pjt33

But dyslexics tend to be intelligent.

True, but I don't think the you're and your error has much to do with dyslexia. I've seen it often enough in forum posts where the spelling is acceptable in other words. A dyslexic post has a totally different feel to it.

[bobjenkins]

Desgraciadamente con la adición de "texting" al mundo ha muerto la gramática . Por lo menos en inglés

[laepelba]

Actually (sorry, Jessica), but I highly disagree with the idea of considering someone to be "not smart" because they make common spelling errors. In fact, some of the smartest people I know (and I am amazed at how extremely intelligent some people are!!) are so busy thinking about the things that smart people think about that they don't really have the time to worry about spelling..... It's the people who don't bother to check themselves and their work before presenting it publicly who I question.......... Thus, a chart like this comes in very handy!

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

It has if there is any correlation between intelligence and awareness of language - you need to be aware of possessive adjectives and their use (and no, you don't need to know what they are called ).

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

Desgraciadamente con la adición de "texting" al mundo ha muerto la gramática . Por lo menos en inglés

También en español...

Originally Posted by laepelba

Actually (sorry, Jessica), but I highly disagree with the idea of considering someone to be "not smart" because they make common spelling errors. In fact, some of the smartest people I know (and I am amazed at how extremely intelligent some people are!!) are so busy thinking about the things that smart people think about that they don't really have the time to worry about spelling..... It's the people who don't bother to check themselves and their work before presenting it publicly who I question.......... Thus, a chart like this comes in very handy!

Unfortunately I'm one of the latter.

[laepelba]

Originally Posted by chileno

Unfortunately I'm one of the latter.

No your knot ... knot rilly.....

[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

No your knot ... knot rilly.....

I already fixed my laptop and i can record my voice now. So I'll be gathering info that will help you.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by laepelba

No your knot ... knot rilly.....

Know - carnt yew get it write?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Know - carnt yew get it write?

jajaja!

And what is yew? I think you meant ewe? :-)

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by chileno

And what is yew? I think you meant ewe? :-)

Yew is a tree (tejo) (or is that Yew are a tree ?)

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Yew is a tree (tejo) (or is that Yew are a tree ?)

Sorry, I got loosed

Is that Spaniard for...?