Terrible Grammar on this forum. Do people have any pride?

I "do" QA for a living, and while my posts are not perfect, I strive to post with good grammar. I make mistakes, and try to correct them as well.

I notice errors in other posts - the common loose vs lose; they're vs their vs there; and your vs you're - but it does not bother me enough to point those errors out in the posts others make.

As for pride? Yes there is a lot of that here... pride in achievements, pride in goal setting, pride in appearance, and pride in...

YELLING BINGO!!!

Yeah, and the OP flunked Trolling 101.

My intention signing up here was to actually give helpful advice and not troll so I'm fighting the temptation but it's a loosing battle.

i here ya, broski.

i think ppl rly need to lay off this guy he is just tryin to proove a point that alot of ppls grammer sux its not his fault that he is here to loose waite i mean serously i guess the little red squiggly wiggly lines dont pop up under sum ppls screen your all here for the same reason to loose some wait. most ppl just want to wine and complaine about everything this guy here has a valad pointe.

Yeah, and the OP flunked Trolling 101.

My intention signing up here was to actually give helpful advice and not troll so I'm fighting the temptation but it's a loosing battle.

I get it. Loosing.

:yawn:

Yeah, and the OP flunked Trolling 101.

My intention signing up here was to actually give helpful advice and not troll so I'm fighting the temptation but it's a loosing battle.

A "LOOSING" battle????? NO, a LOSING battle. You are losing the battle, NOT loosing the battle!

Nevermind.

I'm king of the run on sentence, like they keep going, and going, but I just don't like to put in the periods, really.....

Proper grammar makes me....

Yeah, and the OP flunked Trolling 101.

My intention signing up here was to actually give helpful advice and not troll so I'm fighting the temptation but it's a loosing battle.

Honestly, I think that word should be spelled "Loosing" and I pretty much ALWAYS misspell it. It makes no sense from a pronunciation standpoint. I've actually had this argument on another forum recently. But point taken, I guess I should at least TRY to spell it correctly.

A "LOOSING" battle????? NO, a LOSING battle. You are losing the battle, NOT loosing the battle!

No cents of humor.

Yeah, and the OP flunked Trolling 101.

My intention signing up here was to actually give helpful advice and not troll so I'm fighting the temptation but it's a loosing battle.

A "LOOSING" battle????? NO, a LOSING battle. You are losing the battle, NOT loosing the battle!

you know he did that on purpose, right? el-oh-el

˙ʞɔɐs ʎɯ ɟɟo ʇɐǝʍs ou ˙ǝɯ ɥʇıʍ pʍǝb ןןɐ sʇı uǝɥʇ buıʇɥbıɹ ǝɹɐ ǝןdoǝd ʇɐɥʍ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ ı ɟı

the question is, do people have spell check? ??

and yes, it drives me nuts.

But MFP does not provide a "spellcheck" feature...

It tells me I spell things wrong all the time because I'm Canadian. I hate it, haha.

As for the OP....I can't make myself care. Some people can spell, some cannot. It's not always a measure of intelligence. I don't enjoy "text speak" such as u for you or r for are, but in the end....still don't care.

Not in this forum, but if you're using Word, go to the "review" button and change your language to English (Canadian). I use it all the time when I go back and forth between Spanish/English. It helps keep from driving me crazy with all the "auto corrects" to the wrong language!

For part of my life, I was an editor/typographer/spell checker. Then I taught middle school, where I could put more red marks on papers than you would believe possible.

I ALWAYS notice if someone uses poor grammar or spells badly, but it's not my job to fix that, point it out, or change them unless they ask. I don't think badly of that person, either; poor grasp of English (or simply not paying attention to details on a casual forum) does not equal poor ideas.

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