I just made a long-winded comment (what’s new, right?) on the Kikolani blog in reply to something that ZK (a very highly reputed blogger in his own right) mentioned. Now rather than me writing out the whole thing again as one should if one wanted to avoid the supplementals, I shall do a re-print (as one would if one were working for a newspaper printing office, so where is the harm in non-unique content??).
I would love to hear your own viewpoints on this, as I feel its a thoroughly important aspect to both the offline and online world.
And here it is…
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Hi ZK, nice to see you here on Kristi’s blog offering us your own take on this super discussion (thanks Arie!)! I’m enjoying the feedback you are getting on your own blog right now regards your good friend – John Chow. Hope you are indeed considering providing us a bit more insight into John from your own viewpoint – should be fascinating!
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Sorry – to get back to the point here… Number 8!
That’s a tough call that is! Many folks do not utilize English as a first language and for those folks its far from easy to get spelling right all the time. Very far from easy!
But the point would be that they are actually making a really good effort to communicate to others via the internet and for me that is plenty enough (more than enough). So there is certainly more than one side to that coin!
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Furthermore, as we all know, the internet “encourages” misspellings to some extent. Shortened words, new vocabularly, you name it, its all to be found online! I myself regard my own spelling to be good if not very good, but I really enjoy taking up the liberty of misspelling words that in the offline world would be totally unacceptable.
And if I used such misspellings in the offline world then I suspect I would be described as dyslexic or perhaps even simply stupid.
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Anyhow, as far as I’m concerned, its not so much the spelling that matters in a comment or in an article, but its about the ability to impart information – to communicate in the best way one knows how. With enthusiasm, then all the better! Its the taking part that really matters and not the occasional misspelled word.
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But I do think – at the same time, Arie (the original article writer) has a very good point. Misspells can be grating when reading an article and you sense that the writer has been too lazy to bother with the effort of ensuring decent spelling. I think its the lack of effort here that is the root of the problem rather than the spelling in itself.
Now I best go check my dictionary regards the spelling of “misspelling”… one ‘s’ or 2??
Sorry for the long winded reply. I do feel its a very important point however, and probably needs far more clarification than I myself have noted here.
Kind regards!
Joseph
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So please, what’s your own take on this? I would love to hear from you, I really would!
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And if I used such misspellings in the offline world then I suspect I would be described as dyslexic or perhaps even simply stupid.
That’s the way it is Vetement, but its a heck of a lot better than what it was! My friend who is fairly badly dyslexic managed to get a masters degree in science. There is no way he could have done that even 15 years ago cos he would have been labelled as being too stupid to even try.
Thanks for your comment!
Joseph