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Try receiving emails from a business partner who gives you hell and comes across as a petulant twelve year old.  Two spelling errors and that is just the beginning!  Apparently "i" is no longer capitalized.

Oh, the end is near.

i'm  gulity as well , but what's important is the quality of the answers as well as questions, if you were to talk to me face to face how would you know the difference, besides it's not a spelling contest.

You don't know your punctuation.

Colleen

You can't be serious. ;)

Colleen

LOL, was kidding with you. I thought you would pick up on the cant/can't ;)

For the same reason some people can't use punctuation or capitalization.......

Some come from lack of education ......some now  and some from the habits of texting without spelling with the technology used now a days!!

Because People are people and those people either are rushing or just plain lazy! ;-)

I CANT SPALL  and everyone knows it I am with itsme on this let it go we have had this bloddy question on soooooooooooooooooooooooo many times its boring!

I'm having enough problem with spelling let alone puntuation,and grammar.

no once iss prefict butt their isnant a problim wid mi grammor or me speling.  

It’s so much faster to not use capitalization. If you’re in a live conversation on the computer, capitalization will really hold you back.

We don’t know the age, education level or weight on akaqa. If teenagers wrote like educated or uneducated adults, we might be in trouble.  If eight year old wrote like adults, it would be even worse.

Our punctuation here is kind of like our face and body type when we meet in person.  We will be known by it. 

I think our purpose here is to be understood. In many months, I have rarely been stumped by what someone wrote. I can read through bad spelling. If the spelling is really bad, it might show a state of mind that will alert me to answer a question in a different way.

I never think about my spelling or punctuation ...However,  it was almost impossible for me to get this typed. I thought about spelling. I’m going to just let go of that worry. There’s other things to be concerned about.

ThatOneComment: Are you a plant?  : ) 

Some because of an inferior education, others perhaps, none at all. Some might not be native speakers of English; I can understand this. English can be very difficult for "foreigners" to learn. I think that people here should point out these errors without berating the poor spellers. It's better in this forum because of "anonymity", but when someone knows who is writing, the person who sees it, might see that person as being stupid.I don't  know anyone who wants to be perceived this way.

You have a problem with the word, “cant"

Please don’t point fingers. People have their reasons for not being good spellers. I wish people would let go of this.  I guess I’d have to say The Spelling Police are my pet peeve on akaqa.

Let up. Be nice. It’s the holiday season.         

itsmee is grumpy tonight.

I'm with Itsmee on this one.

Colleen

Proper spelling helps some of us who take the time to answer a lot of questions others ignore. Spelling matters when one wants to be understood. I've proven it before when questions get incorrect answers due to lack of proper spelling by the person asking.

Colleen

Could you imagine if we answered with the same atrocious spelling some people who ask questions show here? They'd never be able to read the answer. In that case, why bother having an akaQA if everyone just got lazy and forgot how to spell or didn't bother to use spell check? No one would get anything out of the questions or answers. Close up shop because akaQA would be useless then. No one can spell but that's OK! Spelling doesn't matter anyway, right?

Because they've opted for grammar.

Another problem is the fact that this forum is International & English is often not thier native tounge.  

Is it not Can't ? It would seem the kettle is calling the pan Sooty Arse.

but im lazy and i still spell good 

Ducky

@ ThatOneComm..Correction: "well" not "good" and you don't use punctuation properly and you don't capitalize your words properly and you forgot a question mark and you stuck in the word "like" where it does not belong..shall I go on? You can only criticize spelling, grammar, etc. if you, yourself, are good at it. You are not!

It's scary but that's the way our young people spell in the U.S. now. I went to college in the 80s, when I was in my 30s, and even the college kids' spelling was atrocious. One reason it that in the 70s or 80s, the educational system came up with a theory called '' creative spelling '' . My sister -in- law who was a elem teacher said the idea was ' ' to get them writing''   The feeling was that it was better to let the kids write a little bit everyday ,even if they couldn't spell the words, than to wait till they were in teh 3rd or 4th grade and could spell many words. The problem was, the kids carried it over into their everyday life and didn't see spelling as important. I have a teaching degree and sub taught for 8 or 9 years, and I can tell you that with the older kids, many of the papers had a lot of spelling errors. And even on the state tests ---on the writing part of it.----they allow the students to misspell everything and still get a passing grade on their compositon . And you can forget about grammar and puncuation. Their teachers don't drill them on it anymore, like lthey did us .......those of us who were kids years ago. And the schools don't teach penmanship ( cursive ) anymore. They say it's not neccessary. Now, we're going to have a whole generation of kids who can't read cursive writing .

I've been asking that question for some time now. ?????

You are not the first to express concern about the inferior spelling often seen here, nor will you be the last.  The reasons have been set out by almost everybody who is a "regular".  
My youngest son always got "A" on his spelling tests.  When he wrote essays or letters, he couldn't spell to save his life.  Bright kid, bright young adult; spelling....not so much.
It's harder to take the questions that are just a couple of words that can be interpreted 87 different ways.