why is the spelling on this site so bad…and i dont mean the odd typo
I don’t see the problem 
. I can make sense of the posts in question. Some people aren’t as gifted as others when it comes to spelling, punctuation and grammar. It’s no big deal surely .
Itz becos we karnt be boverrd to reed 'em biffor we submit not cos wees fick or owt. 
hitch:
why is the spelling on this site so bad…and i dont mean the odd typo
Why do people ask questions without using the question mark?
Rob K:
Some people aren’t as gifted as others when it comes to spelling, punctuation and grammar. It’s no big deal surely
EXACTLY
I have to agree 100% with Rob’s reply.
hitch:
why is the spelling on this site so bad…and i dont mean the odd typo
Probably for the same reasons they don’t capitalize at the beginning of a sentence, don’t capitalize proper nouns such as “I”, and omit all standard punctuation… It isn’t like this is a business letter or a resume… so why be so picky■■?
does it really matter,as long as you can understand the thread.
I don’t care about punctuation or spelling on here because we all know what me mean, sometimes.
However!
Here is my favourite example of how punctuation can completely change the meaning of a sentence:
A woman without her man, is nothing.
alternatively…
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
Should it be “the yolk of eggs is white”
or “the yolks of eggs are white”
If you like this kind of thing, read a book called ‘eats shoots and leaves’ - You’ll enjoy it!
I see no further response from Hitch
Im glad someone has brought this subject up!, My complaint is not so much basic bad spelling, I can be just as guilty of that just like anyone else, what I have a problem with is the growing trend of spelling words the American way, ■■■■ it!, we invented this bloody language, so why are we now importing a ■■■■■■■■■■■ version of it from former colonists?
Below are some of the words etc that I’m talking about, and I am of course referring to the British members of this website who are increasingly guilty (whether knowingly or unwittingly) of contributing to the demise of real and proper English, wether it be the ‘Queens’ English or local dialect/slang. You are all watching too much American TV and too many movies made in Hollywood.
I have seen the following words spelt the American way countless times, enough times for me to feel it is a common problem, I have listed the words by their American spelling then followed each word with the correct English spelling.
License, This is not the correct way to spell this word in the UK, it is LICENCE!!!
Color is spelt COLOUR!!!..in the UK
Center is spelt CENTRE!!!..in the UK
Just like Theater, the correct way is Theatre…in the UK
There are many other wordsthat I can’t remember at the moment, I am about to go out the door to haul some more freight, so when I remember what other words are annoying me, I’ll come back to this thread and post 'em.
But before I go there are other Americanisms creeping into our Vocabulary that annoy me, it’s not the spelling it is the different word used to describe the same thing, use the British word not the Colonialist version!..i.e.
Gasoline…it’s bloody Petrol
Parking lot…it’sCar Park you bloody posuers
Buddy…what happened to Mate?
Chick…a girl is not a Chick she’s a Bird, OK?
Guy… ok so it’s not a new word to our shores, but it’s one that annoys the hell out of me when I hear Brits using it, it’s so Transatlantic, stick with Bloke, thats the way to describe a …er, a Bloke!
There are many more words that I can’t think about off the top of my head right now, but when I do…
…Watch this space!
And before I head off up the dusty trail, here’s another thing before I get too far off the thread subject, it annoys the hell out of me to hear singers who when speaking normaly speak with a plainly British accent, yet when they sing they pronounce every word as if they are Americans!, I have never figured out why people feel the need to sing like that 
, so hats off to Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, ■■■ Pistols (and most Punk bands) Ian Dury, The Stranglers,The Jam, even AC/DC pronounce alot of their lyrics with the English/Aussie pronouciation as opposed to the ‘trendy’ American way, and there are of course many , many more Bands and Singers who not only sing with British accents they also pronounce lyrics using the British Pronounciation 
.
There I’m done, now lets see what this post will stir up!
OH!, and before you smartarses ( without realising it I have stumbled on another one!, it’s arse not ■■■!!), (and it is realising NOT REALIZING!)as I was saying before any of you lot want to pick me up on any inadverant Americanism’s I may accidently use, I do have an excuse, I have been living here for close to 15 years, although I really do my best not to use Americanisms, anyway if I stopped speaking like a Brit, none of the Women want to talk to me anymore
Are you feeling better for that Cliff? 
Have a nice day y’all
Wheelnut quoted:
Should it be “the yolk of eggs is white”
or “the yolks of eggs are white”
Just to be pedantic, its neither, yolks are yellow!!
Cliff Warby:
Im glad someone has brought this subject up!, My complaint is not so much basic bad spelling, I can be just as guilty of that just like anyone else, what I have a problem with is the growing trend of spelling words the American way, ■■■■ it!, we invented this bloody language, so why are we now importing a [zb] version of it from former colonists?
OK Cliff… you asked for it ‘mate’!!! Those of us who have studied the origin of language know FULL well that England did NOT invent the English language. The English language is a GERMANIC language that was brought to the British Isles. What you know as “PROPER” (eh hem) English is this original germanic language with a Danish, French, Celtic, and Norse influence. There are almost as many English dialects in the nation of England than there are worldwide. The language has changed and evolved over centuries, and will continue to do so… whether you like it or not.
Taken from the book… The Mother Tongue… written by Bill Bryson…
“America also introduced many words and expressions that never existed in Britain, but which have for the most part, settled comfortably into domestic life there. Among these words are–and this is a bare sampling— commuter, bedrock, snag, striptease, cold spell, gimmick, lengthy, sag, soggy, teenager, telephone, typewriter, radio, to cut no ice, to ■■■■ in, to sidetrack, hangover, to make good, fudge, publicity, joyride, bucket shop, blizzard, stunt, law-abiding, department store, notify, advocate, currency, to park, to rattle, hindsight, beeline, raincoat, scrawny, take a backseat, cloudburst, graveyard, know-how, to register, to shut down, to fill the bill, to hold down, to hold up, to bank on, to stay put, and even stiff upper lip. In a rather more roundabout way, so to speak, the roundabout (the British term for what Americans call a traffic circle) is of American origin. More precisely, it was a term invented by Logan Pearsall Smith, an American living in England, who was one of the members in the 1920’s of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English… Before Smith came along, traffic circles in Britain were called gyratory circuses.”
"What is less known by many is that spelling reform has been going on for CENTURIES, in a small but not insignifcant way, and without the benefit of any outside agencies. In that splendidly random way that characterises most facets of English development, it just happened. Many words have shed a pointless final e–deposite, fossile, and secretariate, for instance. The tendancy continues today with simplified spellings like catalog, dialog, and omelet… Two hundred years ago there were scores of words that could be spelled in two, three, or more ways,… there is a clear tendancy in every English-speaking country to prefer one form over another. Though technically, one isn’t more correct than the others. (American English adopted one form, British English adopted another… both are correct.)
Now…for the ‘U’ thing…
"Webster is commonly credited with changing American spellings, but what is seldom realised is how widely variable… the matter was. Sometimes he was in favour of radical and far-reaching changes such as… soop, bred, wimmen, groop, definit, fether, tuf, them, hed, bilt, and tung–but at other times he acted the very soul of orthographic conservatism, going so far as to attack the common tendancy of dropping the u from colour, humour, and the like… his massive American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828, actually said in the preface that is was “desirable to perpetuate the sameness” of American and British spellings and usages.
The Oxford English Dictionary , for instance, has always insisted on -ize spellings for words such as characterize, itemize, and the like, and yet almost nowhere in England is this observed. Therefore, American English adopts many of the ‘proper’ forms of spelling that are endorsed in England, but are not widely recognised or put into use by the English public. And conversely the same is true.
The notion that one form or dialect of the English language is more proper or acceptable than the others is more likely a political battle than a linguistic one… the need for the English to maintain a feeling of superiority over the world…
And that’s all I have to say about that… FOR NOW
American spellings seem to be ‘simpler’ than British ones e.g tire-tyre
This reminds me of a dispute I had on the CB last year whilst travelling along the Mass Pike. I was running with two others and chatting away when some southern ignoramus butted in with “Why dun’t ya jus’ **** off where ya come from ?”
Me) “I am driver, I came from Glens Falls and I’m going back there now”
ZB) “Aww means what ever country you comes from”
Me) “I am English actually”
ZB) “Weeeelll jus’ git yer ■■■ back there, ‘cos we dun’t need yer ■■■ here, or anythin’ English, we dun’t need yer English asses”
Me) “In that case can we have our language back please ? because you don’t need it anymore and you have totally messed it up, …err speak spanish can you ?”
A few shouts of “Well said Limey” and “You tell that ignorant pig buddy” was followed by a long pause then ZB) " Jus’ **** off ok"
Don’t get Kate going Cliff … I have tried but as it turns out she is extreemely well educated (Hold on ! what’s she see in me ?) and I have found that what she said is correct, … much to my annoyance
Oh my…I’m staying out of this one.
Kate I hope your ready for our Cliffs response?
Bully
Bully:
Oh my…I’m staying out of this one.Kate I hope your ready for our Cliffs response?
Bully
Looking forward to it Bully 
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amzanig huh?