Sms Talk

[irokin]

I've noticed this has been starting to creep in again. I'd like to remind everyone that we strive for a high quality of posts on Rollaclub and as such we do not allow SMS speed (e.g. u instead of you, r instead of are etc etc). We also encourage people to maintain a high standard of spelling so please take the time to do a quick proof read.

 

As petty as it may sound this really does contribute to a better look and feel for the Rollaclub community.

 

Thanks,

Ben

[philbey]

Hear hear.

 

There's also a proliferation of people ending sentences with ay. Damn, that bugs me ay.

[KE ping it real]

Some of the spelling on this club is absolutely shocking.

 

It makes me wonder what happened to the education system since i left school.

 

Is it just laziness or can people really not spell these days? :wink:

Edited October 14, 2008 by KE ping it real

[madrolla68]

absolutly

 

Really not good enough is it.

 

"absolutely"

 

Matt

[flat out]

i don't even use sms speech in an sms, t9 for the win,

 

also if you are a poor speller, download Firefox as it has a spell checker.

[KE ping it real]

Really not good enough is it.

 

"absolutely"

 

Matt

 

Yeah thanks for proving my point Matt but i was half asleep this morning when i wrote that

[madrolla68]

Yeah thanks for proving my point Matt but i was half asleep this morning when i wrote that

 

Argh its all good mate, gotta take the piss when the time arises.

 

MAtt

[dfunkt]

Argh its all good mate, gotta take the piss when the time arises.

 

MAtt

 

have got to ??

:wink:

[madrolla68]

have got to ??

;)

 

:wink: :D :) ;) ;)

[furryfrog]

I came in here looking for a sms scam :wink:

 

Firefox spell check is my friend, I try to stay away from typing rubbish but sometimes when i rush i forget.

[Hiro Protagonist]

I came in here looking for a sms scam :wink:

 

Firefox spell check is my friend, I try to stay away from typing rubbish but sometimes when i rush i forget.

 

12 years of primary and secondary education are my friends (uni doesn't count - if anything, it has made my grammar and spelling worse). Even when I'm drunk, I spot spelling mistakes when I'm posting and go back and correct them (even looking up the spelling of long or strange words to double-check). I just tend to make more when I'm drunk, thusly requiring more corrections. The end product is still usually the same, same goes for my text messages - capitals in all the right places, correct punctuation, no shorthand or l33t-sp34k, even if it means sending two messages instead of one.

[sammo[RL]]

There's also a proliferation of people ending sentences with ay. Damn, that bugs me ay.

 

Right on! I can't stand the whole 'ay', 'da', and 'lol', that so many people put in their posts. ENOUGH

[irokin]

have got to ??

:wink:

 

Obviously we're going to have to draw the line somewhere otherwise we're going to end up a community of pompous arseholes. Personally I think "gotta" is just above the line, "aye" is below it. My main gripe is people frequently mixing up homophones. Things like "threw" instead of "through". Unfortunatly this is one of those things that a spell checker wont pickup. Oh and just a note, Firefox's default dictionary is US English so I don't wanna see Australians spelling words like "realise", "analyse" with a Z. I do however still encourage anyone who might be having trouble to move over to Firefox or find a plugin for IExplore.

[Nitephyre]

I agree Ben, I really hate homophobes as well :P

 

 

:(

 

 

Seriously though, it's not that difficult to spell properly, but if you have a problem do as suggested above and use Firefox (as an example) and make the first plugin you install the EN-Australia dictionary.

 

I usually skip over any post that is unreadable with a 2 second skim.

[philbey]

There's a few repeat offenders around the site. Maybe a quiet word from a mod if they persist?

 

 

And the other pet hate: "I must of forgot it", "you should of seen it" etc. Sweet jesus its HAVE.

 

Definitely pompous arseholes.

Edited October 14, 2008 by philbey