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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 8:48:01 AM   
MamaDomme


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Status: offline 		I feel that spelling, grammer and puncuation are all important, but not a mandatory stipulation for contact with me.  It shouldn't matter whether one be a Dominant or a submissive, just simple intelligence works.

Of course, it can be fun sometimes to give spelling tests......

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 8:51:32 AM   
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I'm sorry, threadjack.  In the lifestyle we are in, and the games we engage in, isn't sharing your toys with others a bit unsafe and probably not sanitary?  Risking spreading at the very least communicable illnesses and skin problems and at the extreme bloodborne disease?

Back to your regularly scheduled programing.
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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 8:52:15 AM   
batshalom


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Status: offline 		It isn't, to me, indicative of a person's intelligence or worth. If it were, most everyone (including me) would be worthless at some time or another, not that I'm not worthless often, mind you, but it is a sort of self-imposed worthlessness that I enjoy. So now you see my greatest strength, which is rambling often and talking at great length.

Or ... is that a weakness ... mmmmmmmmm ...

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:05:34 AM   
nephandi


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if you are a Dominant, wouldnt spelling be important? Do you think it matters?


In one word, no! This is not English class. One thing to remember is that while some are sloppy, a rather large number of pepole here are either dyslectic, are from another country or in for example my case both. i do react poorly to leet speak and other fancy net speak but honest spelling errors anyone can do and i think it is wrong to judge pepole by that.

quote:

Do you think it reflects badly and would you try and politely correct the spelling mistakes?


i get very annoyed when pepole online try to correct my spelling, i never asked them to, and i do not want them to. It is idiotic when they understand what i write to not read what i am saying but getting hung up on a spelling error. If they do not understand what i am saying then by all means, ask me, but if not leave it alone. In fact i think it reflect badly on the pepole that try to correct me, it make them look like complete snobs, more interested in something reading like an English school book instead of showing any interest in the content of what is being said. It makes them look completely shallow.

quote:

if you are supposed to be the one in control wouldnt that have a negative light? since this is a a way to meet people, doesnt the profile make the first impression for you?


Yes the profile is important, the content of the profile a few spelling errors are not important, i am not that shallow. Basically if i want a English tutor i might care that their spelling is correct, if i want a Dom i rather have personality.

i wish you well






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RE: bad spelnig - 10/23/2007 9:08:26 AM   
MickeySwitch


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ORIGINAL: Pernicious
Factors contributing to bad spelling:
Bad education
English as second language
Laziness

dyslexia
typos & poor typing skills (hunt & peckers make lots more mistakes because they don't read the screen as they go)
not proofreading
not giving a damn
distractions (inside their heads, or extrinsic)
abbreviations that went wrong

I don't bother telling people about their spelling errors unless that person seems to have taken a lot of effort to make a truly marvelous profile and obviously cares about how s/he presents him/herself.  Then I point out that I HATE it when my profile has typos or syntax errors that have gone unnoticed for weeks.  But a person who obviously has dyslexia, there's no point.  A person who doesn't care, there's no point.

Somebody has posted that a spellchecker is of no help to a dyslexic ... well ... that's patently untrue.  However, if the dyslexic has saved all of his/her misspellings into the spell checker, then that defeats the purpose.  I have a doctor friend who's done that & his reports make him look like an idiot.  But I had a sub a few years ago who I got started with a spell checker & she did very well when she used it -- as long as she avoided foreign or fancy words.

My #1 criterion is whether the person was able to get his/her ideas across effectively.  That can usually be done by a dyslexic. 
I don't fault a person for not being born with a keyboard in their hands &  typing flawlessly at 100wpm.  We all make typos.
I also don't care about how many years a person has gone to school or what degrees or jobs a person has ... what's important to me is whether that person is happy with his/her life and is doing what s/he can at his/her best. 
But ... would I be interested in a person who obviously doesn't care about the quality of what s/he wrote?  Nope.  That just shows sloppy thinking.  If they don't care enough to present themselves intelligently on their profile (as someone likened it to a resume) ... if the best they can present themselves is as an uncaring slob ... then they won't care about anything else.  Just like a sloppy resume, a careless profile warns me to avoid that person.



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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:08:28 AM   
nephandi


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quote:

Some people just can't spell. I do wish they would learn about spell check though.


Just a note. If you are dyslectic, most often spell check will not work, then letters just become messed up and it is hard to explain but trust me, spell check do not work.

i wish you well




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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:12:23 AM   
nephandi


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quote:

Factors contributing to bad spelling:

Bad education
English as second language
Laziness


You are forgetting dyslexia and other similar disorders on your list. Dyslexia is actually rather common and it is not a sign of either being lazy or having bad education.

i wish you well


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RE: bad spelnig - 10/23/2007 9:24:08 AM   
nephandi


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quote:

Somebody has posted that a spellchecker is of no help to a dyslexic ... well ... that's patently untrue.


Do you have dyslexia then? Since you say this is untrue? I do and I am saying that it is so. Surly some will have use of it, but many dyslectics will not have any use of a spell check program. Even if they do not load their program whit their errors.

i wish you well


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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:27:35 AM   
LATEXBABY64


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Status: offline 		I always have to laugh at people when they go on about spelling and grammar and how it suppose to decide what a person is or is not. Yet they really never done anything to contribute to growth of society other then goto school get a job...  So in short take your stuffy attitude and stick it where the sun dose not shine.  You will always be lost trying live to a standard that is pretty much selfi serving and educated stupid.  But as they say have at it  live and burn  /:)

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RE: bad spelnig - 10/23/2007 9:40:07 AM   
Pernicious


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quote:

ORIGINAL: MickeySwitch

quote:

ORIGINAL: Pernicious
Factors contributing to bad spelling:
Bad education
English as second language
Laziness

dyslexia
typos & poor typing skills (hunt & peckers make lots more mistakes because they don't read the screen as they go)
not proofreading
not giving a damn
distractions (inside their heads, or extrinsic)
abbreviations that went wrong


A lot of the things you mentioned fall under the umbrella category of laziness I’ve already mentioned. I’ll admit I hadn't given thought to dyslexics in my list.



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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:43:13 AM   
nephandi


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Said more rude then i would, but then i am trying to be a lady. But i completely agree, cheers to you for making a good point Latexbaby. :D

i wish you well


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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:50:18 AM   
Missokyst


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Status: offline 		It matters to me mostly because I am dyslexic and worked very hard in my life to overcome that handicap.  And really some things do not make sense in netspeak, like typing out GURL, vs, girl.  I don't understand the reasoning to it as it has the same amount of letters and seems no shorter to me. 
I understand about people not having been raised using the English language.  Heck, I took 10 yrs of Spanish and I still can't structure a sentence correctly. 
But spelling..
Spell check.  Use firefox it is built in.  There really is no excuse for deliberate misspelling and misspelling through lack of education can be overcome with spellcheck if you dont want to work on learning.
I like educated men, or at least those that go out of their way to know more than how to flog a back or drop wax over a torso.

Kyst

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:54:27 AM   
SteelofUtah


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ORIGINAL: elfie

Just a random question/ thought. recently while perving a few Dominant profiles, i happened to notice, the spelling was awful. i couldn't help but notice, it was that bad ( not one or two hard to spell words here i am talking simple words a 5th grader should know) the other part of this to is, if you are a Dominant, wouldnt spelling be important? Do you think it matters?
Do you think it reflects badly and would you try and politely correct the spelling mistakes?
does it really make a difference? if you are supposed to be the one in control wouldnt that have a negative light? since this is a a way to meet people, doesnt the profile make the first impression for you?
 
 
 


I have read NOTHING other than this and I am sure someone else has already posted this but I will post my feelings on this none the less. There are Many reasons for my typos.

One, I got my GED so I could move out of my parents house and do more drugs.

Two, I did a LOT of drugs and my brain has lost some of the finer spelling abilities

Three I type Fast and due to this don't actually see the typo's. Also I type wrong I look at the keyboard and not the screen.

Four, I'm a Person, not the words, I can speak rather eloquently at times and I can type it as well but I am not ALWAYS that way.

I feel that I am who I am. The subject should be more important than if it is spelled correctely. Look at WHAT I am saying not HOW I am Spelling it.

As Always

Steel

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 9:58:06 AM   
Babybass


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Status: offline 		Lack of good grammer/spelling does not equal lack of intelligence. There are many reasons some people cannot spell...I do prefer good spelling, but if what the person is saying is interesting and i can read it then i see no need to make an issue of it and i would respond to a mail from them.

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 10:00:25 AM   
Pernicious


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Status: offline 		Someone also has to consider it may be a BBW using a small keyboard.

Don't discriminate!

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 10:05:41 AM   
chellekitty


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Status: offline 		ya know...i've spent a great deal of my life reading my older brother's writing....he has the IQ of a 2nd grader because he has Down's Syndrome...and he can get his thoughts and ideas and feelings across just fine phoneticaly even if its not spelled anywhere close to "right"....and ya'll are harping on some petty bullshit....be glad for the high level of  grammar and spelling skills that ARE on these boards....

chelle


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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 10:13:06 AM   
Celeste43


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Status: offline 		What mattered to me is whether or not it was easily understood, typos and all. However I'm with a man who uses spell check and still misses things. He has advanced degrees but not in English, history, psychology or anything to do with Liberal Arts. He is an engineer by training.

If I had said to myself that I always clicked with men who were writers, journalists, psychologists, history professors etc then I would have ruled out people with less than perfect profiles.

But I knew myself well enough that I went looking for the kind of man who always does it for me, college educated with blue collar hands. I found one. He can take apart a machine and repair it. He has swapped engines on his van, repaired my VW which required specialty tools to do so, installed a new garage door opener and springs even though they come with warnings about only professionals should do so. And in addition is coaching his middle one through Regents Physics by phone without having a graphing calculator.

None of which requires the ability to spell or punctuate.

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 10:13:30 AM   
Pernicious


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ORIGINAL: chellekitty
ya know...i've spent a great deal of my life reading my older brother's writing....he has the IQ of a 2nd grader because he has Down's Syndrome...and he can get his thoughts and ideas and feelings across just fine phoneticaly even if its not spelled anywhere close to "right"....and ya'll are harping on some petty bullshit....be glad for the high level of  grammar and spelling skills that ARE on these boards....
chelle


I couldn't agree more and this is one of the oldest topics of Collarme it’s about time someone thought up some new ones.

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 11:39:21 AM   
subsfaith


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Status: offline 		I have a friend who is dyslexia.  On completion of a job on-site, he filled out a report.  The site supervisor complainedto his manager back in the office about his spelling and hand-writing.  The site supervisor was asked by the manger:

Do you want my engineer to fix your truck or write you a f*cking story about it?

I think it kind of puts it in perspective.  However, spell check is available on most home PCs, and freeware is available online.  It is only a matter of spending some time getting used to the software and practicing.  These are a good tool for dyslexics to use, (despite previous posters opinions) I know this because I have spent many hours with my son doing just that, and if he is still not sure about the spelling or meaning, he will copy and paste the word into an online dictionary to make sure it is the appropriate word.  Failing that he is happy to ask someone.

I personally don't read profile that are poorly written for many of the above reasons.  If people don't want to make a good first impression,  can't be bothered to proof-read or to spell check, then I cannot be bothered to read it either.

Faith

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RE: spelling - 10/23/2007 11:48:19 AM   
elfie


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ORIGINAL: Kana

To me BDSM is in the details, as is any relationship.




THAT was exactly where i was going with this :)  

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