Do you think that spelling is becoming worse by the year?

I ask this because I've noticed how on the Internet, there are a number of instances of words being misspelled. Some of it is deliberate, I know. But there are some that I could swear is not deliberate.

• There, their, and they're. These three words have some big differences between them, but they seem to be treated as though they are interchangeable.

I can understand that a number of people on the Internet do not speak or write English as their native language. But when native English speakers make mistakes like this...well, it makes me wonder if the school system needs improvement in that area!

My internet circles are very small. But I would suggest that no, spelling isn't getting worse.
Maybe I just hang out with the smart people.

i'd say that bit of its a lack of emfasis on spellin/grammer in shcool, and mosst is just lazyness as normalley no one is cheking how u rite online.

edited 12th Jul '12 5:28:36 AM by Telcontar

You're killing me here.

I halfint noatissed eny moar issoos with speleng reessintlee then evar beefoar. its alwais bin tis bad.

eye c wat u did lere

I read that in Tommy Wiseau's voice

bad spelling eez lies! eez BULLSHIT!
Oh, hai tropers.

bda speling and gramer u say

i dont fink so

I do think kids aren't paying enough attention to the way they write on the internet. Of course, some people who mispell things end up learning naturally over their time on the internet (such as myself), but there are a fair few people who simply don't learn. I'm not talking about foreign people who didn't grow up with english, I can understand how difficult it is to learn a second language; i'm talking about the illiterate 20-something year olds who seriously have nothing better to do than update their Facebook while driving, and the 13 year olds writing awful fanfiction and writing comments on EVERYTHING either asking a question about something answered in the frigging title or saying it's "SOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!!".

It sucks to be a grammar nazi.

For being a Grammar Nazi, you sure made a lot of mistakes in that post.

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One misspelling and three words lacking capitalization, I'm afraid. It could do with another comma or two, one comma replaced with an em-dash, and only one occurrence of "writing" in the context of 13-year-olds. The phrase in parentheses would fit better after "people" than "internet". It would also be more common to say "20-somethings" than "20-something year olds".

No, this browser totally doesn't have spell-check. And I totally did not have to edit this post to correct numerous similar errors myself.

Topic: People are also less likely to proofread on the internet, as conversations move fast and you don't get marked on stuff. Sheora was kind enough recently to go through and pick up my typos on Ears For Elves and its subpages. I had thought it was pretty good and all it needed was Americanizing; turns out I had done things like spelling "accidentally" with one L.

edited 12th Jul '12 10:14:24 AM by Telcontar

Texting dear boy,that encourage short hand,which discourages making sure the spelling is right

And at the person who read half this stuff with Tommy Wiseau's voice,...You are TEARING ME APART,...I fed up wid dis eentearnet whirl

Seriously,why did The Room have to be involved, it just makes me wunna laugh huh?

edited 12th Jul '12 1:10:27 PM by terlwyth

If you think kids these days are bad at spelling online, you should see them trying to write by hand.

My God, it's like watching a parrot trying to figure what a pen is for.

Ic ne ácnæwe. Min leóht biþ folgongan.

[sarcastic response in Txtspeak]

Kids are just learning to type in eldritch tongues, that's all.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Cool!!

I could of typed this correctly, but that would take a lot of work too get, right.

Eye steel tinc its allwaiz bin tiss... bad.

God damn it. Why is "bad" so hard to think up incorrect spellings for?

dab?

Because we do not think that way,we are still decent spellers and we love it that way,just like parents love their kids as human beans

Ugh stupid The Room references.

Original Post: Heck yes.

The English language degrades more and more each year.

edited 12th Jul '12 2:13:56 PM by ATC