I don't usually have time to comment a lot in this forum, but I wanted to make a point of congratulating you on such a well worded & well thought out post ^_^ You addressed a very controversial topic with thoughtfulness, tact, and an understanding of several conflicting viewpoints.
I can understand typing out thoughts to be read the same as if you'd spoken them (ie the "dwa" example). Sometimes it can make the text more difficult to read, as it will result in phonetic spellings as opposed to traditional ones, but as someone in another thread had mentioned, it does really help to sound out the words in these cases LOL Sometimes I have to do just that when I'm reading something my lover has written. He has a very thick Irish brogue that at times leaves me blinking at the screen with a dialtone in my brain hee hee but it's part of who he is and I find it VERY endearing ^_^ I wouldn't have him change it, unless he himself chose to do so (and I'd probably miss it if he did! lol)
I think that the actual spelling errors issue is separate and though LJ does have a spell check feature I have found it to be incredibly cumbersome. If someone with decent grammar skills but poor spelling--ie someone who is not expressing an accent or some such trait--wants to improve the readability of their posts, they could perhaps write in MS Word or some other text editor, and use the spell check option there, then copy & paste their entry into LJ.
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timeasmymeasure
Well said!
Date: 2005-06-29 04:44 pm (UTC)I can understand typing out thoughts to be read the same as if you'd spoken them (ie the "dwa" example). Sometimes it can make the text more difficult to read, as it will result in phonetic spellings as opposed to traditional ones, but as someone in another thread had mentioned, it does really help to sound out the words in these cases LOL Sometimes I have to do just that when I'm reading something my lover has written. He has a very thick Irish brogue that at times leaves me blinking at the screen with a dialtone in my brain hee hee but it's part of who he is and I find it VERY endearing ^_^ I wouldn't have him change it, unless he himself chose to do so (and I'd probably miss it if he did! lol)
I think that the actual spelling errors issue is separate and though LJ does have a spell check feature I have found it to be incredibly cumbersome. If someone with decent grammar skills but poor spelling--ie someone who is not expressing an accent or some such trait--wants to improve the readability of their posts, they could perhaps write in MS Word or some other text editor, and use the spell check option there, then copy & paste their entry into LJ.
~Kier