If you quote someone, is it bad manners to correct their spelling mistake, or should you let the quote stand in its own right, mistook and all?? ;D ;D
Or do as they do in 'posh' books and add the word 'sic' in brackets after the mistake to show that you have noticed it and are so clever as to draw attention to it!
Quote from: Palustris on September 03, 2006, 12:50:26
that you have noticed it and are so clever as to draw attention to it!
I think you could lose a few friends that way, I was wondering if it was OK to alter it without bringing any attention to it or would it still offend the original postee?
I think the only time there's ever a need is when someone's asking how to search for info re: a particular plant & is spelling it all wrong?
I'd never correct it, as it seems a bit arrogant. If you can't live with it, paraphrase instead of quoting directly. 'So-and-so says that...'
My blatant disregard of the confidentiality of the PM system was when I gleefully told my friends in Watershed that DottyP had told me that she had to "rush off to the PO" ::)
(and if you'd forgotten that, Doris, here's your reminder) ;D ;D ;D
Mike In my opinion if we are talking about boards such as we are on now I don't think I would correct spelling mistakes if I noticed them. If it was of some importance maybe I would try to be diplomatic. I sometimes use the spell check but of course that doesn't always work. IE if you type there instead of their then it would go unnoticed.
If I have to write a "serious" letter then I do find that my Word file points out any grammatical errors I have made.(often many!!)
Leave it well alone, if it makes sense but if it is a serious typo that doesn't, (make sense) then change it, no one will mind especially the poster. ::)
Hells Bells...probably one of mine as they are usually full of typos as my hands can't type as fast as my brain thinks! Even after 10 years as a PA!!
I think I would leave well alone, unless like Lish says, people are naming a plant or something technical which could cause other people who would like to research it, problems and wild goose chases.
That said, we are all chums here, aren't we, so we wouldn't take offence..would we?????
Concenus is then to leave well enough alone. Good enough for me, strange as it may seem E-J it was one of my own that I was re-reading and when I noticed the error. ;D ;D
nad ahd anoyne chagnde ti? ;D
I know of one forum where not only do they take delight in correcting mistakes, but they actually highlight the corrections in red.
I'd be really annoyed if anyone did that to me; it's downright patronising. 'Nah, nah, na-na nah, I can spell and you can't!'
Yes agree! It would be the height of bad manners to point it out and only make the poster feel embarrassed. My brother (who is a teacher) at one time used to point out peoples ungrammatical words, which I thought was terrible. He doesn't do it now after years of being "telt off"! ;) busy_lizzie
Well I would change it, and have done on the beeb board. It's like this, if the poster didn't notice on the initial posting, well they're not going to notice a correction are they? At least you'll feel better. Go for it.
do people not realise that one in ten adults have problems with basic reading writing and number work. correcting someones spelling is enough to put them off posting, and could seriously undermine what little confidence they have. if you can make sense of it, then leave it alone.
We're more like good fiction here than grammar manuals --
complex, well organised plots and a cast of wonderful and intriguing characters.
So who cares about spelling? Not me, for one!
Not me for another. Content is what matters here, not spelling. ;)
Life to short I think to bother. Surely as long as the message is true and sound I 4 1 couldn't care less
Don't come home from the pub and read witty comments from somebody you respect followed by a smartarse comment from somebody you don't like - then post a response ::)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Muttley snigger@red!
Hi all,
Whats a typo between friends?
I agree completely with what weedbusta wrote.
Sometimes I write complete scribble and at other times I have no idea what I`m banging on about but I come here everyday and read what you all have written.
Thanks for your wisdom however you spelt it. :)
Col
Well said Col,we come on here to read about gardening and related topics, the spelling and grammar is incidental, it is the knowledge, wit, warmth, welcome of the postings that are what matter!
Now you all are maiking me worry if this is written right!! :)
T.
So what about shop signs then? Apart from the always mis-placed apostrophe, I saw this today
'Proveyors of High Quality Prime Scotch Beef'
???
The shop (and sign) have been there since God's dog was a pup.....shall I mention it?
;D
For years and years there used to be a sign in a butchers' in Fort William saying 'Cookad Meets'. This was in the 1970's; I have no idea whether it's still there.
Maybe they feed the highland coos on Glenfiddich ?
Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 10, 2006, 20:07:00
For years and years there used to be a sign in a butchers' in Fort William saying 'Cookad Meets'. This was in the 1970's; I have no idea whether it's still there.
;D
If you ever happen to stop at the Oak Tree Lane/Bristol Road traffic lights, Robert, the butcher's in the group of shops on the rt...
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Drove past a shop last night, all painted up and fancy (under new management) with a big sign outside saying "SAMWICHES"
Hey Katie. Glad you don't live near me otherwise I might worry in case it was one of my son's signs ::) ::)
Not quite the same but similar ::) ;D we have a shop near us that says "Walter Wall Carpeting" ;D
At work, before leaving the staff area and going into the public area, there's a big sign painted on the wall above our heads saying, "Smile .... your on the company stage"
So many times I've wanted to grab some paint and paint in the apostrophe and additional e!!!
any posts i do at the moment are done whie feeding the baby, so one handed and half the time with my wrong hand, and a brain full of post natal hormones, not conducive to a literary masterpice i'm afraid! i'd never correct a post for spelling or grammar.
Where did I read that the brain is able to read normally words that are mispelt as long as the first and last letter are correct? [goes off to google...] Can't find the link. I remember they wrote a badly spelt paragraph but I was able to understand it without any effort.
Is this it?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
from... http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
Quote from: Soph on September 12, 2006, 16:11:27
Is this it?
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
from... http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/
Yes that's it. I wonder what phonics would make of that!
And if you cut the words in half, you can read them by their tops?