Read my post: I excused non English-first people.

Looking at any given post, how could you tell the difference? If spelling and grammar are that important to you, then I would suggest that you stop reading all Internet forums.

After reading through these hilarious posts again:

NOBODY has INCLUDED "NON ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE" in the discussion. So STOP making that an issue.

Any Briton, American, Canadian (except French), Australian above the age of 10 years old HAS BEEN taught TOO, TO, and TWO. There is no excuse except laziness.

As for dylexic people: I pardon you

Read it! Know it! Love it!

Link

For those of you that ARE grammer nazis I'm sure that you will empathize with the author's postion strongly.

For those of you that ARE NOT grammer nazis you will laugh your ass off at her many funny stories, learn a good deal about the history of the english language and the importance of punction and grammer.

Me personally, I suck at english. Yes I understand that english is my first language and that I'm just pathetic. Fortunatly, I have come to terms with that and I'm a happier person for it. I still found the book very funny, and enlightening and my english is much better for having read it (yes I understand that's not saying much ).

Felk the Amused

After reading through these hilarious posts again: NOBODY has INCLUDED "NON ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE" in the discussion. So STOP making that an issue. Any Briton, American, Canadian (except French), Australian above the age of 10 years old HAS BEEN taught TOO, TO, and TWO. There is no excuse except laziness. As for dylexic people: I pardon you

Jawohl mein Führer

Ahhhh I am starting to get it now.... this thread is actually the nursery/kindergarten thread..... I am sorry, I didn't realise that.

Please dont try to argue that any of these incredibly offensive posts filled with "go die" "nuke you" "get cancer" kind of statements are actually meant to be funny?

If so, with such an asocial sense of humour, you can hardly start talking about someone elses problems.

Wheelofflame. Perhaps your reading comprehension needs some work in pretty much all the above points.... and it might be best if you look up the word illiterate as you clearly have no idea what it means. Here you go

"having little or no education; especially : unable to read or write"....

if they are unable to read or write.... what are they doing on a forum? Looking at the prettty pictures?

Most importantly, no your original post wasn't funny..... I think maybe SCOURG THE EVIL HEDGEHOG shares the same humour as you, you know the kind - pulling wings off insects and that kind of stuff..... so perhaps you've made a friend after all!

WOW.

" incredibly offensive posts filled with "go die" "nuke you" "get cancer" "

Are they really "incredibly offensive"? Really?...
and are they really "filled" with such offenses?

/rolleyes

Yes they are.

You folks have it good here. I'm coming over from WoW where rogue is a color.

Forums and game chat there is a burning cesspool, and poor grammar and obnoxiousness seem to be prized there.

I feel that it's a shame that people don't wirte better even when they probably have the skill and capacity to do so. However posters here have been much more articulate. Perhaps you should pick your battles.

Spearthrower,

Lighten up, brother. This all started with a hyperbolic rant against people that cannot spell basic game terms correctly.

I thought we were building up the greatest debate since Lincoln-Douglas.

I totally respect that you are deeply offended by people who joke about death, especially jokes about death to literacy infidels.

I don't want these people to die... of lymphoma.

Didn't know the Grammar Nazis were a race in GalCiv2.

Come on - language evolves ... I wouldn't have a clue what Shakespeare was talking about if he spoke his old-fashioned version of English to me today.

But anyone with a keyboard who uses mobile (cell) phone speak on an Interwebby forum should be hung, drawn, quartered and quite possibly even square-rooted. The scum.

C U L8R, M8

This has bee such a "worth wild" thread.

This thread has me remembering an old email received years ago. This Link

is about the same thing. While it deals with pronunciation, one get's a grasp of spelling at the same time.

Sadly you have just wished death on over half the population of the world.

Thankfully not everyone in the world is super intelligent. Some people spell badly, some are crap at football, some just suck all round. It makes the world interesting. To expect everyone in the world to be able to spell is dumb, and to wish people who cannot spell or are lazy (like me) not to post is very Hitleresque

To the original poster you suck ass, and your post has its own errors in it. If i was as anal as you i could point out the Grammatical mistakes but thankfully for you i cannot be arsed.

To everyone else carry on posting!! Dont let others put you off if you have a spellification problem. Man it didnt stop Bush from becoming the worlds most powerfull man!

Did you even read the original post?

Get the spelling for game mechanics right and nobody goes to the gas chamber.

Morale and moral are not pronounced the same. The phonetic excuse doesn't work.

Everything else after the original post is just banter.

As for errors in my original post... yes, there are a couple. However, there are no spelling errors. The fact that you "aren't anal enough" to point out those errors has nothing to do with your desire. It has to do with your lack of ability.

As for the world being more interesting with different ways of writing... what are you smoking? The world is interesting when everyone can communicate under a standard protocol. In this case, English and acceptable variants (Australian, North American.)

My Spell Checker

Eye halve a spelling chequer.
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write.
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite.
It's rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it.
I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect in every weigh --
My chequer tolled me sew.
-source unknown

You know, we're forgetting the real victims of poor grammar, The parents. I'm sure if kids knew how much money K-12 cost their parents, they would be more inclined to, not proofread their posts 110%, but atleast make a solid attempt at learning their own language, the first time. Do it for the parents guys *sniff* they love you.

Alternativly, They say stupid people aren't born, they're created. So who knows? Flogging all around!!

ROFL this thread should keep on truckin

This just in... Scourg has announced a third method of death for the illiterate and their sympathizers: Forced exile to Iran to experience a subsequent nuclear rain. Add that to Skyjack's lymphoma suggestion and my half-hearted, general sort of death suggestion

LOL Here are more,

Put them in the navy and bring back human armed torpedoes .

Human testing for new dedliy agents for later use on terrorests

Give them an old war ship and tell them to leave.Then tell all active war ships the ship that gets them get 6 moths paid leave

Tell them there geting a free spa day, give them a gely masage, on naplam gely Use your mind on the rest

Make a new game show where for each word they miss or pass they are lowered further down a death pit Winers go to the next round....of death

Make them fly the target drones for missle training

Make them read this post

Hwo killed this thred?

If you are so keen about teaching people "proper" English why don't you go and visit some ghetto telling everyone that it's spelled gangster not gangsta or call them illiterate idiots?
Perhaps after your manners would have earned you a good hard asskick you will learn some behaviour.

S247, you're a dork.

Try focusing on why people that see "morale" 50 times per hour insist on spelling that word as "moral."

I really don't give a flying fsck about how people in the ghetto spell anything.

If you are so keen about teaching people "proper" English why don't you go and visit some ghetto telling everyone that it's spelled gangster not gangsta or call them illiterate idiots? Perhaps after your manners would have earned you a good hard asskick you will learn some behaviour.

Wow. This thread was about to die and you dredged it up to offer this little gem?

Try focusing on why people that see "morale" 50 times per hour insist on spelling that word as "moral."

I really don't get why you're so pissed off about that.
In other Languages they don't even make a difference between the two.
Why the hell should you give a shit if someone is too lazy to write properly?

Grammar fascism SUCKS!

Grammar fascism serves THE ONE TRUE GOD!

Come on - language evolves ... I wouldn't have a clue what Shakespeare was talking about if he spoke his old-fashioned version of English to me today.

That's a shame. I think his plays are wonderful, whether read or heard.

As far as the topic at hand goes... a lot of people do take every error in spelling (and sometimes grammar) too seriously. Typographical errors happen, and if a lengthy treatise on "morale" omits the last letter in the word a couple of times, that's no big deal.

I'll be honest, though, and admit that if that same treatise NEVER spells the word correctly even once, I'm not going to waste my time with it. If the author can't be bothered to learn what his topic is, I don't trust him enough to have cogent thoughts on the material at all.