Can we cut out any text speak?
alright=all right
accept=except (a lot of times)
"all of the sudden"= all of a sudden
masterbation=masturbation
masturbayshun=masturbation
masterbetion=masturbation
masterbait=masturbate
masterbate=masturbate
OMG=no such word
ur=no such word
y=a letter of the English alphabet, no such word
ne=abbreviation for New England, no such word
...=ellipsis, not a comma
fk=not a word
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh=no such word
"your" is often used when "you're" is meant
Insert typical super smart ass comment courtesy of thepainter here.
Are we talking about the stories or the forum?
If we're talking about the forum and not the stories then...
I don't know about correcting text-speak. All across the web, on every forum, you'll find it commonplace. Long before it was called text-speak, it was called eSpeak. Emailing and forums were slow and sluggish (I remember when email could take up to a week just to deliver an email.) and dictionaries were very expensive books most people didn't have. anyway, the point is, eSpeak evolved by necessity, to communicate with less keystrokes.
Today, many of those excuses no longer apply, but it is rooted within the internet and its communities. So, my opinion is that it would be a shame to disallow eSpeak such as "lol", "OMG" and the like. The internet is not grammar school, the atmosphere is more relaxed. Casual. Fun. I'd be disappointed to find people feeling alienated from Lust because of their grammar (mine isn't so great either) <--- perfect example! *lol*
But commonly misspelled words could use help. Nicola's examples are two of my own pet peeves. Also mentioned by rocco is all right is not alright (I make this mistake myself. Sadly alright derives from a cultural anomaly. It used to be acceptable in English classes, so I grew up believing it was properly spelled.)
Dont = don't
wont = won't
cant = can't (most likely, cant is a word, but rarely used in conversation)
Alright is ok, I sometimes use it. Probably an English thing.
usage The one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>
The trouble is Rocco, if you replace words like: ur, dat, dis and so forth, it will mess up perfectly valid words like: your, date, disjointed.
If you pay me i can have that as a fulltme job, nic :P
It's not really the spelling, but the usage of there, thier and they're
- 'thier', rather than 'their'.
- 'organism', a misspelling of 'orgasm'.
What if someone wants to write about organisms in their story Gypsy? Perhaps in an insect story? lol.
"thier" could form part of the word "wealthier", so we can't add that to the list either. It matches the string, not taking into consideration other letters around it, so if it were added, the new word would be wealtheir.
Maybe a literary test has to be passed to join lush.
Perhaps prospective members will need to sing the alphabet song.
Sorry a little flippant and I make mistakes typing and I know my grammar could do with some work.
BUT in this day and age can people at least use a spell checker............PLEASE.....
That would save the proprietors of this fine establishment the hassle of having to search and replace spelling in peoples stories.
Rubber Ducky your the one, you make my life so much fun
No thanks Nicola, nip only end words with the letter t(nip) as last letter according to my Nipplish dictionary.
Here's an example:
Catnip satnip on a ratnip.
Then the ratnip transformed into a batnip.
The catnip on the batnip flew lostnip in sovietnip.
Here's one that drives me crazy. "anyways". I want to scream when someone uses that.
Perhaps we could hold online classes to help get ourselves all orientated and back off track, through the gantlet of myriad meridians or mediums or whatever.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
Like anyone there are words that bug me when they are miss spelled, but I try not to bitch to much because I know that I spell stuff wrong all the time. I know I say this a lot but, sorry about any of my miss-spelled words.
The one 'text speak' that bugs me the most, as in I hate it with my being, is 'a/s/l'. It pisses me off to no end. If you want to know those things, then go look at my profile BEFORE you message me.
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The only problem I can see is if somebody is quoting an example of really bad writing, for instance Rumple's thread "Weally Bad Writing" comes to mind...or if someone needed to quote an actual text message...
I was on another forum with Rocco that had spell check in the forums reply area at the bottom where it says, preview,post,cancel, it also had spell check. Would that help? Would it be hard to do for Gav?
The thing is most browsers have a spell check built in today just have to activate it.
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