Missed a few capitals in there Justo and you can't have a comma then write and come on!

A fair point it must be said, it's sad when people have to shorten everything or just not use correct structure and grammer. Spelling i can undertstand, man I'm still bad at it but it would be nice if everybody just put a little more effort in when they type.

What annoys me most is the use of "You are" vs "Your"

Admit it, how many times did you proof read that post? haha

 Haha, not enough times.  

 hahahaha u missed about 5 capitals

this site needs to be a fishing/contradiction forum

its a developing trend

gold!!

Yep, it shits me big time too.  I think a lot of the culprits are the young fellas who may be using their phones and find it easier to abbreviate than write the whole word.  Maybe we should start being really picky, and comment every time someone puts up a heap if incoherant words. 

I agree with you Justo, incorrect use of punctuation and capital letters can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

When I was a boy, i used to help my Uncle Jack, off his horse.

That sentence has a differnt meaning when written :

When I was a boy I used to help my uncle jack off his horse.

I agree with you Justo, incorrect use of punctuation and capital letters can completely change the meaning of a sentence.

When I was a boy, i used to help my Uncle Jack, off his horse.

That sentence has a differnt meaning when written :

When I was a boy I used to help my uncle jack off his horse.

 I like your post Justo. It's all about making a bit of an effort, nothing wrong with that. I'm definately not perfect but try. 

Hey Justo, agree completely!

Your write about people and they're bad punctuation!  << My two biggest irks; you're/your and their/they're/there

O nd txt spk!  I h8 it!

I agree in part of what you are saying, but find it funny your own post is full of mistakes.

Suffering from Dyslexia i usualy have to read comments a few times to make sure i reply appropriately. When i write comments it takes me quite a while to do so, constantly re reading and checking my words and sentences.

To some members English is thier second language, so i can understand some mistakes to be made.

But i do agree some post's i can not understand, some effort to make them readable would not be that hard. ( and yes, to write this comment i had to use a dictionary and rearrange some of my words as i tend to put them out of order .)

Cheers Grant .

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
 

Too often there is stuff to do. I usually find it easier when two of us do it!! 

 I'am shocking when it comes to english, I rely on spell check!!

 Adam can we get spell check, TILL has'nt been around of late!!

Great rant. Couldn't agree more.

It's not just online, but I see it in day to day business, from professionals that are qualified in a variety of fields but neglected to get their english down pat.

 Not everyone was blessed with a good education, but we were all blessed with a passion for an intoxicatingly addictive hobby known as fishing. Are you suggesting that only the well educated and intelligent people of the fishing society can use fishwrecked? I understand it can be irritating reading text talk, but if you can't stand to communicate with like minded people, who may have learning difficulties or lacking intelligence, on a public forum, then I suggest you piss off somewhere else. Like you are perfect you hypocritical idiotical homo. 

this topic has the potential to stop a lot of people from putting posts up because they may become the object of ridicule because of their spelling, i had to miss the day at school they had spelling, i had to get a job when i was ten years old

I cant(Can not) believe i wasted my time reading this post!! P.S if you can not read this, go to WWW.Getalife.com.au.

I don't bother posting unless I feel have something useful to contribute, but I am on here a lot and do look at most of the posts.  The ones I don't bother with are the "text speak" ones, and the ones so full of grammatical errors or lacking in any punctuation (you know, the ones with no caps, no full stops, no commas etc etc) that just take so long to work out what the poster is saying that I can't be bothered trying. So even if that poster is asking for some advice I could actually help with, there is no way I will bother responding. 

Nobody's going to bother about the odd spelling mistake or error, but I agree some people could try a lot harder.  It doesn't take a lot longer.  I also suspect that there are others like me who would be happy to offer advice to more young members if they tried a little harder.

And I truly hate it when these threads descend into abuse and ridicule like where AlwaysFishin is heading above. 

All Justo is saying is take the time to get it right.

There is a big difference between someone making mistakes and someone who just cant be bothered in even trying.

No body is ridiculing the spelling mistakes. We all make them, but, if you are going to communicate on a forum, dont stoop to the lowest common denominator and use TXT speak.

You do have a point Justo but personally I will forgive average spelling, sentence structuring on the internet. It used to bug me as I make sure what I write is done properly and judged others mistakes against my own standards (which aren't perfect) however these days I don't fuss over it anymore. I can get the gist of what someone is saying even if it does look like a dogs breakfast.

What I don't forgive however is the same stuff in professional situations, like reading reports, instructions etc and also certain fishing magazines that I have read which have slipped in the odd bit of text speak, missplaced commas, innappropriate words and phrases and just poorly structured sentences etc thanks to some very woeful editing.

Not too confident with the draftsman we had draw up some plans to extend our house.  He apparently is qualified to draw house plans, but had a few very simple spelling mistakes on the final copies????????

I know a few people are dyslexic who post on this forum and thats fine.  I know some that struggle with spelling and that is rather obvious and again, not a problem.  The guys that don't take the time or effort are usually notified, but I have been a bit lapse on that because I just don't have the time any more.

As for it being a whinge fest, welcome to the digital era.  I reckon we're not too bad for whinging and bitching, check out a few other sites around, lol!

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