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People who can't spell, and who are PROUD of their unwillingness to even try, piss me off. In fact, people who are proud of just about any kind of ignorance piss me off, but this is one of my hot buttons.
They piss me off even more when they act like it's everyone else's responsibility to decipher their illiterate ramblings, not their own responsibility to communicate clearly.
And they piss me off the most when they cap that with "but I'm [number under 18] years old!"
Our child, bless her, is apparently direction-impaired. She cannot get out of sight of our apartment building without becoming utterly clueless on how to get home.
Our solution to that is not "act like a spoilt brat and demand help rudely," it's to not let her go any further than she is mentally able to handle. Her limitations are our responsibility, not the rest of the world's.
She isn't allowed to do anything online unattended until we can trust her to both communicate clearly and politely, and stay within the boundaries we set for her. Her limitations are OUR responsibility, not the rest of the world's.
There must be some mathematical way of figuring out just how few children running wild it actually takes to make everyone sigh and say "Kids these days!" while most parents are restraining their children and quietly saying "Don't be that kid."
(And please, no deliberate misspellings in the comments. You know what I mean here.)
ETA: There's a pretty decent book by Marilyn vos Savant called The Art of Spelling which goes over some tips for being a better speller; the two main ones are to pay attention to what you write or type, and to learn to pronounce words in the standard dialect-- the standard spelling often goes with the standard-dialect pronunciation. There's nothing wrong with speaking a variant dialect, but if you want to write standard English, you may not be able to spell everything the way it sounds when you say it.
They piss me off even more when they act like it's everyone else's responsibility to decipher their illiterate ramblings, not their own responsibility to communicate clearly.
And they piss me off the most when they cap that with "but I'm [number under 18] years old!"
Our child, bless her, is apparently direction-impaired. She cannot get out of sight of our apartment building without becoming utterly clueless on how to get home.
Our solution to that is not "act like a spoilt brat and demand help rudely," it's to not let her go any further than she is mentally able to handle. Her limitations are our responsibility, not the rest of the world's.
She isn't allowed to do anything online unattended until we can trust her to both communicate clearly and politely, and stay within the boundaries we set for her. Her limitations are OUR responsibility, not the rest of the world's.
There must be some mathematical way of figuring out just how few children running wild it actually takes to make everyone sigh and say "Kids these days!" while most parents are restraining their children and quietly saying "Don't be that kid."
(And please, no deliberate misspellings in the comments. You know what I mean here.)
ETA: There's a pretty decent book by Marilyn vos Savant called The Art of Spelling which goes over some tips for being a better speller; the two main ones are to pay attention to what you write or type, and to learn to pronounce words in the standard dialect-- the standard spelling often goes with the standard-dialect pronunciation. There's nothing wrong with speaking a variant dialect, but if you want to write standard English, you may not be able to spell everything the way it sounds when you say it.
