This Has Generated Some Awe For Me

[rarisgod]

It...is spelled....AWESOME

It is NOT spelled "AWSOME"!!!!!!!



Get it? Awe - Some! Some Awe! Awesome! Not "Aw"!!

[bassteban]

When remarking on cuteness, it's *aw* not *awe*

-Adolf Speller

[rarisgod]

Originally Posted by bassteban

When remarking on cuteness, it's *aw* not *awe*

-Adolf Speller

You'd still never use it as "awsome".

Even in typing this post, I had such a hard time spelling it the wrong way. Why is it so difficult?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=awsome

[6jase5]

Awsome thred topick, reely good eyedea.

[Sam Hain]

Originally Posted by 6jase5

Awsome thred topick, reely good eyedea.

Yoo speld "good" rong dood!

[IconBasser]

[MatticusMania]

I dont understand how people can get so angry over other peoples' spelling/grammar mistakes. Maybe it's just a way for people to feel better about themselves, by pointing out other peoples' errors, but I just find it silly.

This is the internet, you need to take into account that 1) English may not be everyone's primary language 2) Some people may be less educated than yourselves 3) Some people couldn't care less about their spelling 4) This is the internet. If spelling/grammar mistakes are what set you off you'd be much better off reading a book. There are mistakes in those as well, see if you can point them out and report back to us!

[rarisgod]

Better if I clear this up - though I've noticed this before on TB, this was not what ticked me off today. Someone I know who is NOT a member of TB made this mistake today and I felt like sharing my frustration via OT.

It's definitely not a way to feel better about myself lol it's just an annoyance.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by rarisgod

Better if I clear this up - though I've noticed this before on TB, this was not what ticked me off today. Someone I know who is NOT a member of TB made this mistake today and I felt like sharing my frustration via OT.

It's definitely not a way to feel better about myself lol it's just an annoyance.

I gotcha, also to be clear, I wasnt making a personal statement aimed directly at you. I just see SO MUCH of this going down on TB with the spelling/grammar nazis and all. Havent they realized that its pointless? Pointing out someone's bad spelling or grammar just seems like so much of a waste, even if its done with the best of intentions. The fact is, the "nahzis" are creating just as much of an annoyance to others as the bad spelling/grammar is to them.

We're well past grammar/elementary school by now, if these incorrect spellers havent learned phonetics/proper grammar by now, an internet post isnt likely to teach them.

[bassteban]

I try to lean towards *amused* & will admit I butcher my native language as well.

[Marco A. Mayer]

Originally Posted by bassteban

When remarking on cuteness, it's *aw* not *awe*

-Adolf Speller

[sarcastro83]

[MonetBass]

[Disco_Gee]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

I dont understand how people can get so angry over other peoples' spelling/grammar mistakes. Maybe it's just a way for people to feel better about themselves, by pointing out other peoples' errors, but I just find it silly.

This is the internet, you need to take into account that 1) English may not be everyone's primary language 2) Some people may be less educated than yourselves 3) Some people couldn't care less about their spelling 4) This is the internet. If spelling/grammar mistakes are what set you off you'd be much better off reading a book. There are mistakes in those as well, see if you can point them out and report back to us!

Those two are NOT valid excuses. If one wants to be treated like an idiot, then by all means, make no attempt to use correct spelling or grammar. But if one wants to be understood and taken seriously, then one better make the effort.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by Disco_Gee

Those two are NOT valid excuses. If one wants to be treated like an idiot, then by all means, make no attempt to use correct spelling or grammar. But if one wants to be understood and taken seriously, then one better make the effort.

wie shuld eye bothr apeesing u?

Sure, maybe those aren't valid excuses to you, but the fact of the matter is when youre reading something online, you don't know why the person is misspelling or using incorrect grammar.
Those could be the reasons, or they could be one of the first two I listed, which you seem to think are valid. Or there could be other reasons I didn't list, you don't know.

My point is, if you don't have better things to do than try and correct someone's spelling or grammar you should probably get a life.

[Fontaine]

(sorry i had to!)

[machine gewehr]

Go to a spa center this weekend and have some awesome time.You won't notice the absence of e in the awsome afterwards.Or maybe you will,but won't annoy you.Maybe it will annoy you I don't know.At least,have a beer and relax.

[Number27]

Originally Posted by machine gewehr

Go to a spa center this weekend and have some awesome time.You won't notice the absence of e in the awsome afterwards.Or maybe you will,but won't annoy you.Maybe it will annoy you I don't know.At least,have a beer and relax.

he also hates it when you don't use a space after a comma or period (i learned you should use two).

[rarisgod]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

I gotcha, also to be clear, I wasn't making a personal statement aimed directly at you. I just see SO MUCH of this going down on TB with the spelling/grammar Nazis and all. Haven't they realized that its pointless? Pointing out someone's bad spelling or grammar just seems like so much of a waste, even if its done with the best of intentions. The fact is, the "Nazis" are creating just as much of an annoyance to others as the bad spelling/grammar is to them.

We're well past grammar/elementary school by now, if these incorrect spellers haven't learned phonetics/proper grammar by now, an Internet post isn't likely to teach them.

Oh I know, and to a point I even agree with you, which is why I rarely point this out to anyone personally. It just frustrated me at the moment when I read it, hence this thread.

That being said, most browsers have spell-check these days, is it so hard to notice when you spell "awesome" wrong? It's a simple right click to fix it most of the time (for example, I just fixed all of the "errors" in your post though it was mostly just missing apostrophes and capitalizing "Nazi", which are things I myself would leave out at times as well).

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by rarisgod

Oh I know, and to a point I even agree with you, which is why I rarely point this out to anyone personally. It just frustrated me at the moment when I read it, hence this thread.

That being said, most browsers have spell-check these days, is it so hard to notice when you spell "awesome" wrong? It's a simple right click to fix it most of the time (for example, I just fixed all of the "errors" in your post though it was mostly just missing apostrophes and capitalizing "Nazi", which are things I myself would leave out at times as well).

I intentionally leave apostrophes out of most words, especially contractions. And nahzi aint worth capitalization! (pronounced nat-zee)

And in reality, I dont really care about people being spelling nahzis as much as I come across in this thread.