Bad Spelling & Typos: NY Times Opinion Piece

[Scout101]

Yeah, doesn't take any level of special attention to decide between "they're" and "there" when I'm typing. Know what you're trying to communicate, and chose the correct word. Say it's not important to you, but since you managed to choose the rest of the words in that sentence, why did that one go off course?

Same with the "lose" vs "loose" thing. Takes MORE effort (by 25%) to be wrong, think you'd err on the side of the shorter one, which is also usually the one they meant

Call me a snob, but I can't help but downgrade arguments that contain 3rd-grade spelling errors. Not ones with typos, but the ones where it just appears that the writer doesn't have command of the language they are trying to use. "Would of", "mute point", etc. Tough to say something smart when you do it in the dumbest way possible...

 

[DarthTom]

I checked the research, the higher the level of intelligence, the worst they are at spelling and that stuff - so they find that people with PhDs in high paid jobs spell worse than people pumping gas or walking the till at McDonalds. Nobody knows why.

Thank you. And only the most anal of people would engage in ad hominem attacks in a benign conversation about spelling in the Misc forum of a Website dedicated to a fictional TV show.

But hey - why not snipe at anonymous people on the internet for absolutely no good reason at all.

In any case, it was just a personal opinion. But perhaps someone could add credible scientific studies that back up their theories that bad spellers are somehow also morons or idiots?

We're all waiting anxiously - ya know.