What is our country coming to?

[BeauJangles]

So I was browsing around Shoutcast's site because I was bored, and I decided, what the hell, I'll see what they have to say in their forums. I go in and read a thread about a guy trying to convince his local radio station to broadcast in Mp3, not RealAudio. I have never seen worse spelling in my life. OK, it's fine to make mistakes, but these people obviously can't spell at all. What is going on? Why can't my generation spell? I make mistakes, sure, with spelling and grammar, but nothing on the scale that I have seen recently. This is only an example. Do you guys think it's because of things like spell check which ensures you don't need to know how to spell anything?


Here is a partial list I found in two replies.

conviceing
useing
aplogist
haveing
useualy
sourse


link to shoutcast forums example

I guess this isn't the worst example out their, but it's still pretty horrible. I don't mean everyone should be able to spell perfectly, but don't you think this is horrible? I have seen it other places too, bad spelling is all over the internet. Arg... I guess I sound like some sort of spelling Nazi... believe me I'm not.

 

[pulse8]

Does it show the age of the person? For all you know they are 10 years old.

 

[Dumbledore]

you shouldn't judge this person, perhaps s/he is learning english as a second language.

 

[isasir]

What I find amusing is that e-mail viruses generally contain horrendous spelling and grammar, so as to convince us that it's a legit e-mail. Most of the people I converse with are reasonable spellers, and as such, a virus is easily detected on my end.

Here's some of the text from a virus warning I received last week:

"PROJECTMAYHEM"

The message body is one of the following:

"Test this game"
"I wish u like it"
"I have got this file for you"
"Surprise !!!"
"download this game & have fun "
"desktop maker ,you may need it "
"have you ever got a gift !?"
"What women wants !"
"Don't waste any time ,Subscribe now "
"Make your pc funny !"
"new program from my fun groups"
"Map of the world "
"Create your Ecard"
"looooooooooooooooool"
"Send it to everybody you love "
"Its made by me "
"Our symbol "
"If you have an elegant taste"
"Test your mind"
"1 + 1 = 3 !!!"
"Singer , searsh for any song and sing "
"For everybody wants to marry a woman that he doesn't love!"
"nowadays , there is no womanhood !! "
"Just Try to fix it"
"Keep these advertisements run and earn and earn 0.25 $ per
10 minute "
"See this file "

Ugh.

 

[dullard]

<< I guess this isn't the worst example out ***their***, but it's still pretty horrible >>



Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh. An incorrectly spelled word in a bash against poor spelling is very funny.

I'm one of the people in your generation. I also cannot spell. I blame the school system as well as my lack of effort.

 

[isasir]

BTW, it's "there" not "their."

 

[CStroman]

I doubt that person knows what a period is.