I spell

[Dumbelldog]

Not that I realy care wether or not people can spell but here is a free spell check programme that will check your spelling when making posts if you want it. I know some people receive a bit of shit about not being able to spell.

You can all spank I mean thank me later. :pfft: :wink:

http://www.iespell.com/

[frogie2001]

thank god! I have been waiting for psuedo to sort out a spell checker for the site for ages! sick of text'ese creeping into the forum. it's a worry when you can't understand wat peps r sayin.

[Cammo]

Uneducated fools! :pfft:

[chchardgainer]

i dun no wat ur talkin bout, evry1s spelin on hair is grate !! :grin:

[waldo]

I still can't quantify this text spelling thing. Blatant disregard for the English language, as well as an indication that users of that type of lingo didn't give a shit in school.

Excuse me for sounding prudish, but it's just what I think.

[frogie2001]

don't worry about sounding prudish. I just get sick of shop signs doing it too. my sister in law writes emails with it and it takes me twice as long to read and decode. still the english language is constantly changing and always has, so this might be the step in the evolution

[Cammo]

don't worry about sounding prudish. I just get sick of shop signs doing it too. my sister in law writes emails with it and it takes me twice as long to read and decode. still the english language is constantly changing and always has, so this might be the step in the evolution

arrr yes... the dumbing down of society.

[Pseudonym]

It's true text speak is nearly impossible to skim-read. I think one of the reasons people use it is that they're not great skim-readers to start with, so they don't understand how much of a difference good writing can make.

The thing that concerns me most is the loss of access to information. Now that we live in a digital age, and search engines catalogue every word that is said, we become more reliant on those words being typed accurately. If a word is not recognised, it can't be catalogued properly. If it's not catalogued, it can't be found.

We rely on search engines, and search engines rely on people spelling correctly.

[2guns]

y do u all type "lol" then?

get with the times

[2guns]

my sister in law writes emails with it and it takes me twice as long to read and decode

yeah, and if she did it so it was easy for yr small mind to read it would probably take her twice as long :pfft:

[Flex]

There's a few theories upon how humans read text. The most agreed on being that we read the shape of words rather than the actual words and letters themselves. I think the human brain reads something like 3 or 4 words at once. If you close one eye when reading you'll notice that your eye moves along blocks of text rather than scanning each word and that's why you can skim read. I guess those that grow up recognising txt language find it pretty easy to understand but will eventually probably find reading a book in normal english difficult.

That's why you can do things with normal text like in the image below and still read it however it doesn't seem to work too well with txt spk, and also wHy rEaDiNg TeXt lIkE tHiS iS sO dIfFiCuLt.

[AlBundy]

Haha yea those kind of pictures are buzzy managed to read the top one instantly, second one took a few extra seconds.

I guess it also depends on a few other things. People that write papers and stuff for uni are probably pretty fast touch typers anyway and used to needing correct spelling, so typing out whole words is probably easier than converting to txt speak for some people. The only reason it exists is because of the character limit on txt messages and the fact that with phones you have to press alot of buttons.

Can't say it bothers me to much but if it's a giant cube of text typed in txt speak then I probably wont read it.

[chchardgainer]

the second one has an extra word in it too for some reason.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

:nod:

[Cammo]

y do u all type "lol" then?

get with the times

Pure laziness!

[AgentOrange]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[chchardgainer]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

are the other 45 people retarded?

[blairandkelly]

Firefox has built in spell check id never use ie again :wink:

[deegee]

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

When I first glanced over this I wondered what you were on about as all the words looked fine to me, however I read fast, and only when one word caught my eye did I realise that they were nearly all jumbled.

And this is the reason I dont like text speak it slows my reading down and is in most cases it's just annoying.

[FastFreddy]

even i got it lol

[poos_n_wees]

rEaDiNg TeXt lIkE tHiS iS sO dIfFiCuLt.

I hate reading text like this :evil: I'm sure it takes twice as much time to type it out, and it just looks stupid.

[Mike Zero]

rEaDiNg TeXt lIkE tHiS iS sO dIfFiCuLt.

I hate reading text like this :evil: I'm sure it takes twice as much time to type it out, and it just looks stupid.

I reckon if someone invented a keyboard with a caps lock type button that alternated the case each letter LyK dIs and sold it to bebo users, they'd make millions...

(patent pending)

[Flamer]

Too true. Last thing we need is to lose the ability to communicate!! Cease the erosion of the English language!!!

[chchardgainer]

I reckon if someone invented a keyboard with a caps lock type button that alternated the case each letter LyK dIs and sold it to bebo users, they'd make millions...

(patent pending)

patent pending ay.... well see about that :pfft:

[2guns]

lol u could piss alot of people off on this site writing like that :pfft: