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Does it bother you when you see the wrong spelling of a word in an article or text?

Asked by rojo (24179points) December 30th, 2016

I mean homonyms, not misspellings. Things like thrown instead of throne or your instead of you’re?

Does it bother you? Do you put less credence into whatever you are reading? Do you question the writers education or intelligence? Or do you just gloss over it and perhaps not even notice?

I seem to see it more often now; am I or is it just because of my advanced age? Does it have to do with spellcheck and voice activation?

Does this occur in other or all languages? If so, are there any Flutherines who can give a few of the more hilarious examples?

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zenvelo's avatar

I am more or less critical depending on context.

When I was actively on-line dating, I would dismiss anyone who wanted their curiosity “peaked” or “peeked”.

Drives me a little crazy when someone writes “should of”.

Auto-correct on texts makes a lot of mistakes that are easily forgiven, especially if the sender follows noting the mistake.

ragingloli's avatar

It sends me into a fit of rage, a storm tide of anger that even Moses could not part.

Sneki95's avatar

Oh my God does it.
I always notice it, and often correct it. It slightly annoys me when someone writes or speaks incorrectly.

At the same time, I constantly make typos that I have to correct.

And I do question writer’s education. I’ll never understand how can someone who is well educated not be able to ever write properly.And yes, it happens in many languages.

I do know some hilarious examples. A Youtube channel Jacksfilms has a series called Your Grammar Sucks where the host finds various comments with funny typos.
Rob Dyke made commented on some hilarious typos he got in his show “Why Would You Put That on the Internet”.
The most memorable are:

Bone App the Teeth/Bone Apple Tea = Bon Appétit
Chicken Permission = Chicken Parmesan (this one became a meme among his fans. He even has a “commercial“about it. He came up with an idea to sell a perfume called “Chicken Permission”)
Pet of files = pedophiles

Another one that I remember was “lack of those in toller ant” which was supposed to mean “lactose intolerant”.

Pachy's avatar

As a writer and editor, I HATE seeing misspellings, grammatical errors and typos (all of which, I hasten to admit, I make my share of). They make me nuts. I once saw a terrible grammatical mistake on a movie poster! A MOVIE POSTER !!

Coloma's avatar

I notice, yes, but rather than feel bothered I find it amusing that someone could make such an obvious error.
I’m with @zenvelo as well. When I was doing some online dating once upon a time ( note the word “upon” , I came across a profile where the guy had opened with this line…” Winter is apond us.” No, pass, you are the weakest link. lol

My daughter would get mad at me and tell me I was too picky. You bet I am, I don’t want to date an illiterate. haha
What really bothers me is when I make a stupid spelling mistake and can’t go back to edit. That’s bothersome.

SQUEEKY2's avatar

It really seems to bother people a lot that I have noticed, they seem to have more patience for poor drivers than poor spellers.
I mean they get all annoyed about a failed spaced comma, but fine about not using your turn signals.
They get all pissed off when something isn’t proof read for mistakes, but never check their vehicle to make sure all it’s lights are working properly.
I mean face it you will scream when someone makes a typo, but when was the last time you made sure all the lights on your car were working?
What really gets me is when someone claims confusion about what was written because a comma wasn’t spaced, or they used your instead of you’re, really?
And people wonder why I don’t like people until after I get to know them.

stanleybmanly's avatar

It varies. Some things are so compelling, that you don’t care about the structure supporting them, but more often than not, such mistakes distract you from
the job of absorbing the narrative. I know that’s my problem. We’ve been trained as kids to notice and correct such mistakes. That urge has been drilled into us, and it is formidable.

marinelife's avatar

Yes, I do. I am an editor.

stanleybmanly's avatar

You are truly doomed!

rojo's avatar

@stanleybmanly We’ve been trained as kids to notice and correct such mistakes. Is this still true? My 10 y.o. grandchildren don’t seem to get much training in this or even basic sentence structure. Is this taught later? Those who still remember, were you taught to be on the lookout for homonyms?

stanleybmanly's avatar

@rojo. You make a good point. I suspect that the emphasis on such matters has declined significantly since my days of sitting at those little desks.

Cruiser's avatar

For me it depends both who the writer is and where the content resides. The more reputable the site and author the more I might take exception to such egregious grammatical errors and them and or the editors who missed the mistake(s).

Coloma's avatar

@ Yez, eggsepchuns muzt bee owlowed four ad tymes.

abcbill's avatar

Yep, big time. improper use of an apostrophe will drive me, at times, to actually correct the signage.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Yes. It bugs me. All of it bugs me. Misspellings, tortured sentences, all of it.

What especially bugs me is when people go around telling people what good writers they are, when they ain’t.

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