How You All Feel..?

[MoparManJim]

Guy's how would you feel about someone picking on people because they can't spell all the best? And almost when you made a topic that person would enter that thread and take and quote what you said and in build letters corrected the words to there likings and then kinda say something smart when you say something to them. I'll admit that I'm not the best speller at all and that I use spell checker but afew of the boards that I'm on doesn't have that program to use. And this one person keeps at me only on afew boards due to my spelling.   

[moparsons]

Sounds like he just wants to pick on ya and can't find anything else. Just look at it this way....if misspelling a word every now and then is all someone can find wrong with you to point out....you're doin just fine in my book.

[captnsim]

Download iespell.

Just right click and select check spelling. Works great for forums with no spell checker.

www.iespell.com

[b5blue]

Insecure people tend to try and pick on others to make up for there tiny little brains or wieners, possibly both, or the fact that they have no control in their own life. If you know they mock you in an attempt to upset you, don't get upset, that will wear them down. 

[skip68]

MOEPARMANJIM, u big dumi... u kant spel and r a poo poo head.       Jim, you think you spell bad ? ? ?  I am the worst at spelling.      My wife makes fun of me all the time, hell, even my kids do.      I'm good with numbers but REAL bad with words.   Jim, the only word you need to spell correctly is Charger.           Well, maybe your name to.     I had Cody poke at my spelling several times so I started spelling words wrong just in spite.       Give that a try.   Chuck.........

[dodgecharger-fan]

I'd say that person is pretty petty and likely has a problem with their own self esteem. I say that because it is a common belief that people that pick on others do so in order to make themselves feel better.

I'll admit that sometimes I'll find a post on a board that is extremely difficult to read because of spelling mistakes and poor grammar, but so what? It's not the end of the world and I don't really think any less of the person that posted the message. I'll re-read as much as I need to or just skip past it if I'm not in the mood. I'll get the gist of things from the other posts and come back if I need more detail.

Every one has redeeming qualities. Only one facet of a person should not define your impression of that person. Everyone excels at something. If the written word is not your strongest point, no big deal. Keep at it and you'll get better.

That said, I have a rule by which I categorize people: No one is an a$$hole until they prove otherwise. Then, they're always an a$$hole in my book. Race, colour, creed, education, etc has no bearing.
I look at it as my equal opportunity policy.  

[472 R/T SE]

All my local Mopar buddy's have punctuation deficiency.  None of them are on forums though except daytonakid, but he has a pretty good grasp on it.

You think I'm smart enough to spell "punctuation deficiency" or any other big words.  Heck no, I use Firefox & it never lets me spell a word wrong.  It'll put a little squiggly line under any questionable words.

Now how you structure your words...you're on your own.

[MoparManJim]

Thanks you all for the advice and feelings on the issue here that I'm having with this dude. Everything the guy does is always about him mostly on the forum I'm on that he is on also. If you say something to him about it in the thread he will run to the on line site that had the worddefines of what the words means and he will post it  in a reply. 

I can make a post and sooner or later he will come along and read it and make a quote of what I said and a new quote along with correct words all in capital and and at times bold. I know he's probably a member here also as he owns a charger.

[Armudster]

 I think is important to make an effort to at least show what's on your mind clearly, and bad spelling is not so bad that it gets in the way of understanding for the second part, of course I think is valid to try to have a good spelling, and a spell check helps sometimes, but nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes, some people seem to forget that often, and it's easier to see the problems of others, than your own, I've seen a lot of these spelling nazis writing things that, while spelled correctly, lacked basic word structure, and don't matter how much you try it seems impossible to understand what they are saying.
You have two ways to solve this thing, you either ignore them, or my favorite, you try to pick just one mistake they did, and then it's revenge time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

[Landonsrt]

I could care less how anyone else on here spells. Everyone makes mistakes when they ae typing fast. Some just don't care. It irritates me when I screw up! To the point where I reread everything just to check, and I still screw up!


See I screwed up. Not on purpose but decided not to fix to show Im a dumbass..

[skip68]

I think is important to make an effort to at least show what's on your mind clearly, and bad spelling is not so bad that it gets in the way of understanding for the second part, of course I think is valid to try to have a good spelling, and a spell check helps sometimes, but nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes, some people seem to forget that often, and it's easier to see the problems of others, than your own, I've seen a lot of these spelling nazis writing things that, while spelled correctly, lacked basic word structure, and don't matter how much you try it seems impossible to understand what they are saying.

    WOW ! ! !  That is one long sentence.       

[MoparManJim]

I think is important to make an effort to at least show what's on your mind clearly, and bad spelling is not so bad that it gets in the way of understanding for the second part, of course I think is valid to try to have a good spelling, and a spell check helps sometimes, but nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes, some people seem to forget that often, and it's easier to see the problems of others, than your own, I've seen a lot of these spelling nazis writing things that, while spelled correctly, lacked basic word structure, and don't matter how much you try it seems impossible to understand what they are saying.

    WOW ! ! !  That is one long sentence.       

Hey Chuck.. is my face blue, bud?  . 

[skip68]

     Some times I just can't help myself....   

[Brock Lee]

As petty as it all seems on the surface, we are attempting to communicate using just the written word. It is best to at least try to get it right and not be lazy (we all make mistakes). Also learn real words, not spelling out the way you say them, like "pose" means to assume a certain position or gesture. Which is different from "suppose" or "supposed", which means to assume is real or true. No big deal to most English speaking people, but remember quite often many like to participate that are not English speaking. These people will have a hard time understanding.

A good tool to help with spelling is to use Mozilla Firefox as a web explorer. It has spell check built in.

[Landonsrt]

I honestly dont care. If you can type enough to get the general idea out. Good nuff!

Figure that out!

[Armudster]

I think is important to make an effort to at least show what's on your mind clearly, and bad spelling is not so bad that it gets in the way of understanding for the second part, of course I think is valid to try to have a good spelling, and a spell check helps sometimes, but nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes, some people seem to forget that often, and it's easier to see the problems of others, than your own, I've seen a lot of these spelling nazis writing things that, while spelled correctly, lacked basic word structure, and don't matter how much you try it seems impossible to understand what they are saying.

    WOW ! ! !  That is one long sentence.       

Sorry, my Enter and . key are jammed and in the end of their life, so I'm saving them for special occasions 

[Bob]

I'm waiting for someone to invent a spell check pen or pencil.

[Tilar]

I'm on a few message boards and although I try to have good grammar and spelling, sometimes I do mess up. Hell, I'm an old farm boy so what can people expect...

That said, Spelling and structure is important if you want people to read what you have to say. One of the things I hate is to try to carry on a conversation on a message board and have to try to translate it in to what I think they are trying to say.

On one board I'm on there is a guy that uses the "I wunt 2 do that 2", " why wud u do that 4 any1" stuff and he puts everything into 1 paragraph. Some as much as a page long. I'm not going to try to decipher what he has to say in one of those types of post and I think he's a pretty smart man... Which brings up my point to all this.

I think some people tend to associate IQ or a persons mentality with spelling and grammar structure. I'm not saying that to be mean or try to put anyone on the defensive, I'm just saying what I see on other boards and sometimes I'm guilty of it myself. One guy that I work with can't spell worth a crap and he uses words in conversation that sound like what he wants to say but have different meanings. It makes you wonder how he graduated but he's a smart man. Hell it's not even a question of being smart, it's just the way it's perceived.

It's just my take on the subject..

Now, here's something you are welcome to use to come back at him with next time he cuts you down for your spelling. Ask him if he picks on your spelling because he cant come up with anything intelligent on his own.

[Arthu®]

I'm on a few message boards and although I try to have good grammar and spelling, sometimes I do mess up. Hell, I'm an old farm boy so what can people expect...

That said, Spelling and structure is important if you want people to read what you have to say. One of the things I hate is to try to carry on a conversation on a message board and have to try to translate it in to what I think they are trying to say.

On one board I'm on there is a guy that uses the "I wunt 2 do that 2", " why wud u do that 4 any1" stuff and he puts everything into 1 paragraph. Some as much as a page long. I'm not going to try to decipher what he has to say in one of those types of post and I think he's a pretty smart man... Which brings up my point to all this.

I think some people tend to associate IQ or a persons mentality with spelling and grammar structure. I'm not saying that to be mean or try to put anyone on the defensive, I'm just saying what I see on other boards and sometimes I'm guilty of it myself. One guy that I work with can't spell worth a crap and he uses words in conversation that sound like what he wants to say but have different meanings. It makes you wonder how he graduated but he's a smart man. Hell it's not even a question of being smart, it's just the way it's perceived.

It's just my take on the subject..

Now, here's something you are welcome to use to come back at him with next time he cuts you down for your spelling. Ask him if he picks on your spelling because he cant come up with anything intelligent on his own.

I agree, although this is really the only forum/message board that I'm on and I'm not a native speaker so my English is by no means perfect, but it can be annoying at times when someone's spelling or grammar is so bad that I have a hard time translating it. I'm not talking about the their/they're mistakes here.

Arthur

EDIT: I should say though that picking on someone about it is rather immature and shows a real lack of character. I would just ignore the guy. Personally if the spelling gets so bad that I can't understand it anymore I just don't read it. No need to pick on someone about it.

[b5blue]

Maybe he's a retired English teacher and just can't stop himself, have you told him to knock it off?

[MoparManJim]

Maybe he's a retired English teacher and just can't stop himself, have you told him to knock it off?

Nea, he's not a teacher of any short. He works and trys to get to each event that he can each each year that had a cleb and then after wards he's bragging about that he met this person or that person afew times. He has afew mopars but only works on two of them where as I only have one mopar and thats a charger that I been working on for the past few years now and it needs alot of body work done to yet it. But this guy takes the cake though as he think it's all about him in away. Some of the members have already told him about the way he is. Heck they even told me also about myself before and I even improved on my spelling so they can more better understand what I'm saying but it's this one that loves to at times correct only my spelling when in facvt there are afew other members there that is hard to read there posts and understand what they are saying. When I reply to them I use the quote and change there words to make it sound right but yet I don't say nything to them about there original post though. After I change the words in there post in my quote then I go about what I was going to say to help them out with there topic on what ever it is at times. But I don't capital the letters or put them in bold or tell them about it.

[The70RT]

Sorry to hear that Jim. Members need keep putting him in his place when he shows his ass. Kinda like one of our fellow members did here -

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,63676.msg712051.html#msg712051

[Ponch ®]

I don't really care if someone misspells a few words here and there as long as I can understand the substance of what they're saying. Hell, I do it myself sometimes. This is a car forum, not Modern Language Sciences message board.

However, sometimes I am left scratching my head when someone makes a post where neither the spelling, the structure, or the grammar is intelligible. 

[skip68]

Maybe he's a retired English teacher and just can't stop himself, have you told him to knock it off?

Nea, he's not a teacher of any short. He works and trys to get to each event that he can each each year that had a cleb and then after wards he's bragging about that he met this person or that person afew times. He has afew mopars but only works on two of them where as I only have one mopar and thats a charger that I been working on for the past few years now and it needs alot of body work done to yet it. But this guy takes the cake though as he think it's all about him in away. Some of the members have already told him about the way he is. Heck they even told me also about myself before and I even improved on my spelling so they can more better understand what I'm saying but it's this one that loves to at times correct only my spelling when in facvt there are afew other members there that is hard to read there posts and understand what they are saying. When I reply to them I use the quote and change there words to make it sound right but yet I don't say nything to them about there original post though. After I change the words in there post in my quote then I go about what I was going to say to help them out with there topic on what ever it is at times. But I don't capital the letters or put them in bold or tell them about it.

[/b]
   You mean like this ? ? ?       It's a good thing Jim don't know where I live or he might be coming to kick my ass about now.   

[MoparManJim]

Yea.... just like that... hey wait a minute!    

 Come to think of it   I think I do know where you live.    

BUT if I don't I can   always talk to one of your friends on here     

But knowing my dang luck, you would probably kick my butt for me trying to kick your butt. 

Maybe he's a retired English teacher and just can't stop himself, have you told him to knock it off?

Nea, he's not a teacher of any short. He works and trys to get to each event that he can each each year that had a cleb and then after wards he's bragging about that he met this person or that person afew times. He has afew mopars but only works on two of them where as I only have one mopar and thats a charger that I been working on for the past few years now and it needs alot of body work done to yet it. But this guy takes the cake though as he think it's all about him in away. Some of the members have already told him about the way he is. Heck they even told me also about myself before and I even improved on my spelling so they can more better understand what I'm saying but it's this one that loves to at times correct only my spelling when in facvt there are afew other members there that is hard to read there posts and understand what they are saying. When I reply to them I use the quote and change there words to make it sound right but yet I don't say nything to them about there original post though. After I change the words in there post in my quote then I go about what I was going to say to help them out with there topic on what ever it is at times. But I don't capital the letters or put them in bold or tell them about it.

[/b]
  You mean like this ? ? ?     It's a good thing Jim don't know where I live or he might be coming to kick my ass about now.    

[Cooperman]

Jim, you know who I am, and if it makes you feel any better, this attitude is the very reason I left that other site. Just after I'd got my Charger too...

Don't take any more crap from him. Call him out on the forum and tell him to quit his immature bullsh*t. I know I'm not the first person to leave because of this.

[Nacho-RT74]

sorry if my spelling doesn't help on make you happier

[69bronzeT5]

I had Cody poke at my spelling several times so I started spelling words wrong just in spite.       Give that a try.   Chuck.........

Wel, whut can I saye Chuckie....u hav speling ishshoes!

[The70RT]

I had Cody poke at my spelling several times so I started spelling words wrong just in spite.       Give that a try.   Chuck.........

Wel, whut can I saye Chuckie....u hav speling ishshoes!

Hees from VegASS...whatda u expeckt 

[skip68]

Oh great, now I got Cody making fun of me again.      You know something Cody, you may spell better than me but at least I have hair on my chest.         As for the guys from another country like bean dip,  taco...     I mean Nacho,    you guys are doing just fine.        We all know what you mean and are saying.  I look to see who's online quite often and I see lots of guys using spell checker.   Right Wade ?    

[69bronzeT5]

I look to see who's online quite often and I see lots of guys using spell checker.   Right Wade ?    

You're the main person I see doing that!

[MoparManJim]

The guy is a member here also like I figured he was. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that he has probably has already seen this thread   

Maybe he might like to take and correct all you alls incorrect spelling? 

[MoparManJim]

Oh great, now I got Cody making fun of me again.      You know something Cody, you may spell better than me but at least I have hair on my chest.         As for the guys from another country like bean dip,  taco...     I mean Nacho,    you guys are doing just fine.        We all know what you mean and are saying.  I look to see who's online quite often and I see lots of guys using spell checker.   Right Wade ?    

Well if Cody is making fun of you.. maybe I should make fun of him?   

Now Cody my lad, if you making fun of people and there spelling because they can't spell good... even with spell check  then you no better then the other dude that is pickin on me 

[skip68]

    What he said.   

[Brock Samson]

I'll just leave this here...

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,38878.0.html

[69bronzeT5]

Oh great, now I got Cody making fun of me again.      You know something Cody, you may spell better than me but at least I have hair on my chest.         As for the guys from another country like bean dip,  taco...     I mean Nacho,    you guys are doing just fine.        We all know what you mean and are saying.  I look to see who's online quite often and I see lots of guys using spell checker.   Right Wade ?    

Well if Cody is making fun of you.. maybe I should make fun of him?   

Now Cody my lad, if you making fun of people and there spelling because they can't spell good... even with spell check  then you no better then the other dude that is pickin on me 

I poke at Chuckie for fun...he knows it... That dude picking on you though sounds like he's just being a douche for the sake of being a douche.

[Landonsrt]

I think its a little different when its from an ad company. Here on this site, NOT SO IMPORTANT!

[bull]

As a former news writer and current half-a$$ed fiction writer I'm a spelling Nazi so I really have to let things go or I'd make myself nuts. Most of the active members of this board seem to have it together when it comes to spelling (for a bunch of gearhead hooligans ) but once in a great while I'll make a comment about something when it's just plain butchery of the language.

[dart3404]

I'm not the best at spelling either, and I also have a punctuation problem. I wouldn't let this guy get to you, that's what he wants. Stop giving him the satisfaction off pissing you off and let it go. Sounds like he has nothing better to do with his time on the message boards than to follow you around and correct your spelling. 

[The70RT]

Since he is so smart ask him if he knows sign language 

[MoparManJim]

I'm not the best at spelling either, and I also have a punctuation problem. I wouldn't let this guy get to you, that's what he wants. Stop giving him the satisfaction off pissing you off and let it go. Sounds like he has nothing better to do with his time on the message boards than to follow you around and correct your spelling.  

Well he has been doing this crap for the last 5 years. But what was recently said was kinda the last straw. But what really gets me is he likes to do it to other people as well as you can see. And no one seems to want to stand up to him at all as they been/got push around by him. But he's not pushing me anymore though as I took it for 5 years from him constant. And for any of his friends that trys to back him up I'm going to tell them also about there friend as I don't think they know either. There is people on this board that ran from the other club because of him also because they couldn't put up with his crap anymore either as he would PM them as well about bs that he didn't like what they said on the board. He may have ran them off but he sure as heck isn't going to run me off. But the only person that he didn't PM was me about my spelling.. he went to others about there spelling and what not. I have always ask him to back off me on my spelling and afew days later he would be right back doing the crap again so this time I made a thread and ask him that thread to Please stop quoting me and correcting my spellings all the time.

[jb666]

Well, I've always been a stickler for spelling.. I've been called a spelling Nazi from time to time.. But as others have said, that's not why I'm here..

I can spell, but I'm a moron in plenty of other areas (like buying an old Charger), so I certainly can't comment.

93.77345% of the time, Jim, I know what you're saying. The rest I either PM you or just throw my arms up in the air and say.......



I will have to admit, your rant in my "lifted truck" thread had me saying.......



And, until we hashed it out via PM, I was ready to...



And teach you some sign language...



Then, I took one of these, and everything was fine..



All's good Jim... Now, can I make a suggestion for ya bud? 



On a side note, Jim.. I'd say you have a heart of Gold. And if people haven't driven me outa here for buying the rolling heap of shit that I bought, YOU ARE SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mike DC]

  
My mother has a PHD in english.  Learning to speak & write the language properly was absolutely mandatory in my family.  


I have a lot of respect for those who have learned english as a second language.  It is not an easy langauge to learn.  There are tons of minor variations and details to keep track of.  There are numerous different words that mean virtually the same thing.  Lots of phrases do not make sense at all if you are not familiar with them.  And the order of the wording can completely change the meaning of a sentence.    

 

[MoparManJim]

Jeff, I'm glad that we could talk that other issue out via Pm  afew weeks back, but this dude is always about him about him going to this place and meeting this person or that person (even if he had already met them before. Stuff like that I can over look. But being pick on for 5 years is something hard to over look anymore though. That time when I said I was said you can say some of that was bottled up steam from someone else also (the guy we're talking about) and what he kinda doing over at the other club. He has an ego problem and it's the better of him. Heck when the guy miss spell a word he will reply back after folks had pointed out what he did and littery say it was typo when he will not admit that he miss spelt a word or words. Everone else I know will admit they miss spelt words if we mention it to them. But this guy won't and and yet he tells me about my spelling  when he won't admit his own miss spelled words. Belive me not only have I caught his miss spelling words but afew of the club members did to  and when they say something he makes himself look good and gets the on line word dictionary and use it to look good  . 

I swear if he keeps up I'm going to take up this kind of talking ... . ...... ..... .... ... and see how well he does with that and if he can correct that  .

[Brock Lee]

Here is a common confusion in this very hobby:

Repo and Repro

Repo is short for Repossessed or Repossession

Repro is short for Reproduction


It is not just in written word, it is often spoken in conversation. At every car show I meet a guy that has some sort of "Repo" parts on his car.

[Landonsrt]

JB- I think more comments shuold be made into pics like that.


Then we wouldn't have threads like this.

[BB1]

I don't give a rats ass how I spell. Stick that dictionary up where the sun don't shine for all I care. 

[MoparManJim]

Well guys, I just lay ed it out at him  after he replyed over there. For you all that ran off from over there because of him you might want to swing by  

Plus you all might be having me more offten over here depending how the mod over there takes my Pm I just sent to him about what I just did. That dude had it coming to him for a while now  .