Spelling police

If English is a person's first language it sometimes bothers me if they don't use it correctly or if they misspell a word but as English is your second language i think you are doing pretty well! Good on you for mastering English, it's such a difficult language to learn!

I speak a second language, which is Japanese, and i really appreciate people being understanding when i talk in Japanese, that they don't try to correct me too much or make me feel embarrassed about my ability. It's good to get pointers every now and then but i think it's rude to constantly correct another person, especially when they are doing so well. Most people know what you meant when you spelled something wrong or mistyped and it's just plain picky to keep correcting it.

Good luck with your posting! Keep up the great work:)

Since English is not your mother tongue(as is the case with me) you shouldn't be worrying quite a lot over your spellings. After all, I feel that you are expressing considerably well in a language that is alien to you. Good luck.

i dont used to correct their mistake, i just let them to kwn what their mistake, oz in the long run i knw they will learn by expressing theirself and that how i do learning is a continous process for me that is poor in lingo, but except for the pronunciation i will never understand anymore.

yes, specially for the pronunciation like japanese u can hardly understand them but im proud for those people though its so hard atleast they try to expressed theirself coz i belived in the process they will master it and thats how i do...and its helps me too.

Spelling mistakes will happen, even when you use spell check and proof read your comment, the little mistakes will get thru,
SO its no good of getting upset about it, just keep posting

I think I have become a bit more relaxed about my obsession with people's spelling and grammar. One can usually tell when the person writing does not have English as their first language and all due respect to them for trying and typing in English when I can't type in another language to save my life. What does bug me is people being lazy and using text speak in discussions or when writing online articles and the thing that bugs me the MOST about reading things online is when people use i when referring to themselves instead of I - nowhere in the world when you learn English do they tell you that I should be written as i and it's so commonly done by British people that it annoys the heck out of me! I have seen responses to discussions here like "i fink ur rite" and that's it! What kind of input is that to a discussion? The person is clearly going around writing as little as possible hoping everyone will click the + next to their response/comment and hope to earn lots of money from the smallest effort. Ok I'll stop going on about that aspect of online typos - in general if I feel something is really poorly written and is difficult to understand I would rather point it out in a private message but that is difficult to do on this site unless the person is on your friends' list, so I tend to move on past discussions where the spelling and grammar is so poor that I get eyestrain trying to understand what they're actually trying to say.

By the way, I've seen your discussions and responses and feel you always make a good effort to write nicely - all due respect to you for being so good at a foreign language. xx

I make so many typos myself that I am hardly going to correct someone's errors in front of everyone. If I see a phrase that a friend maybe needed help with, I'd PM. Mostly I just ignore them and assume it's a typo.

nope.i have better things to do than pick on people's spelling.
as long as i can still understand what they mean,i'm good.
english is my first language and i make mistakes from time to time,so who am i to speak?;)

Hello! I think it's a bit rude to correct spelling errors unless it's something that my kids are turning in for a school assignment, or unless someone asks me for help. I guess a good idea would be to incorporate the misspelled word into the response so that when it's read, the difference can be seen. Personally, I think that your writing is very good! It's a lot better than a lot of other things I read in here which are posted by people whose native language is English.

Try installing the Google toolbar on your computer. As well as several other useful features, it includes a spell checker which will function in several languages.