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Are you an idiot that can`t spell?

Yes 36 38.30%
 
No 58 61.70%
 
Total:94

Aye no write, thees pee pole.



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well somtimes it's like my mind tricks me. like I know both meanings. but I forget which is which. the same in german. eg tot = dead, tod = death. most of the time I'm right but knowing that I often confuse them, I start to doubt myself and that confuses me even more. I got the same with the number 14 and 17. like my mind using the same memory block for both numbers. I remember a date with 14 .. after I week I'm not sure if it was 14 or 17.



In a world where spellcheck is built into everything, we still have morons that can't spell. FFS. How hard is it to click on the red line and see the right spelling? Also, the differences between You're, Your, They're, Their, and There is obvious.



Because you shouldn't care about someone's spelling as much as the substance of what they're saying. It seriously doesn't matter how someone spells something as long as it's understandable.



Surry my speling is terible. Worse then evar.



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ruffy37 said:

well somtimes it's like my mind tricks me. like I know both meanings. but I forget which is which. the same in german. eg tot = dead, tod = death. most of the time I'm right but knowing that I often confuse them, I start to doubt myself and that confuses me even more. I got the same with the number 14 and 17. like my mind using the same memory block for both numbers. I remember a date with 14 .. after I week I'm not sure if it was 14 or 17.

It's normal to be confused if you're not native. I'm not native as well... We have to learn that Bear can be an animal and also the idea of supporting something, which is pretty weird; the same word has completely different meanings and we have to remember that as we try to associate to our language. So props to us!



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What where you trying two say?



The "you're" in the OP is so odd...what is going on there? What symbol is being used instead of the apostrophe?



Education standards have slipped. Younger teachers don't have the patience of the older ones that they're replacing. Several years ago, I datedva lady whose son was an A student. I read some of the things he would write for school and it was horrible. And yet, here he was. An honor student. Meanwhile, I barely passed a lot of my classes.



AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Because you shouldn't care about someone's spelling as much as the substance of what they're saying. It seriously doesn't matter how someone spells something as long as it's understandable.

The way you present yourself always matters, especially when you're a company. Poor grammar and frequent spelling mistakes may tarnish your reputation.