Spelling errors spelling errors!! AGH

I just have to get this off my chest.. I see it all too often on this forum.

there = in, at, or to that place or
their = belonging to or associated with the people or things previously mentioned or easily
they're = they are
your = belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing
you're = you are

Oh.. and ESP on the Wedding forum..

Altar is spelled Altar. Not Alter. Alter is to change something, it is not the table at the front.

Enjoy! I only say this because I care People think you are less intelligent when you cannot spell correctly. Oh yeah, cannot is one word, not two.

OK, I know that I can not altar you're opinon, but thay're other things to worry about.

Rad

Are you trying to Altar there ESP? I can not beleive it.

Please remember this is an international forum.

Not everybody here has english as their native language.

Given that a lot of people are posting in what may be their second or third language they don't do so bad.

Let us see you redo your post in either, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian. Japanese or any language other than your natural one and we will mark it out of 10

flareak wrote in post #4584014
I just have to get this off my chest..

How about poeple who use dubble full stops?

SNAP Tommy but my suggestion will be more fun......

hrm.. i've heard that most foreigners who take esl actually have better grammar than natives, but that's just what i've heard. in any case, now they know a little bit more =D

neil_r wrote in post #4584125
Given that a lot of people are posting in what may be their second or third language they don't do so bad.

Let us see you redo your post in either, French, German, Dutch, Norwegian. Japanese or any language other than your natural one and we will mark it out of 10

I can respect that opinion - I work in an environment where the majority speak French or Flemish but the "corporate language" is English. However, I think that you miss the point here somewhat. Most of the errors mentioned by the OP are made by people from the US and the UK and in that, I agree with his frustration.

I'd also like to add one of my own. That long bit on the front of your camera with all the glass in it is called a lens not a lense.

flareak wrote in post #4584143
hrm.. i've heard that most foreigners who take esl actually have better grammar than natives,

Well that is certainly not true for Americans, what they do to English will make you cry. (Before our American cousins all start shouting at me I shall say two letters G.W )

flareak wrote in post #4584143
hrm.. i've heard that most foreigners who take esl actually have better grammar than natives, but that's just what i've heard. in any case, now they know a little bit more =D

Also true - most would shame some of the people currently churned out by our so called "education system" in the UK. In Belgium, being tri-lingual is what you need to be to get a decent job. In the UK or US it IS a job.

I actually don't care much about the opinions of people who chose to judge us based on our typing skills.

Nor do I tend to judge people based on their IQ or SAT scores, or the cleanliness of there car, how many dishes are in they're sink, or other such trivialities.

disappointing there CDS no typos

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #4584174
Nor do I tend to judge people based on their IQ or SAT scores, or the cleanliness of there car, how many dishes are in they're sink, or other such trivialities.

So what do you do for fun then?

You must have missed the liberal misuses of the words that rhyme with "their"