My Fb bugbear

I put a mobile phone up for sale on our local FB page.
The responses were quite shocking!

Some people just put the amount they were willing to pay, others were abbreviated sentences such as “ I gv ya askin pce cn cm na”
Lots of wear R U?

I was obviously selling too cheap.

In the end I got a response from a fireman called Ian, I responded saying as he was the only person who could construct a sentence, spell and use the word please he could have it!

Floradora9

How I hate seeing adds from people saying " needs gone ASAP "

I always feel sorry for the poor old sofa or whatever item ‘needs gone’.

Well, at the risk of being a pain, I hate seeing 'ads' spelt as 'adds'. It is short for 'advertisement', which has one 'd' and does not add anything, so doesn't work that way either.

'Needs gone' is a Scottishism that applies in the far north of England, too. It's similar to 'needs washing' or 'wants eating'. It's not a mistake, it's regional semantics.

How I hate seeing adds from people saying " needs gone ASAP "

BlueBelle

If people have dyslexia or are poor at spelling why don’t they talk into the device

I do all my communicating on a laptop computer, not a mobile phone, so I cannot talk into it. It would also disturb DH working his side of the desk if I spent all my time talking, even if not to him.

I have seen a recent FB local page for an antiques fair, showing some lovely jewellery including several broaches ...

I must reign in my comments.

A lot of effort used to go into getting pupils to write in standard English, even if their spoken English was a non-standard variation. I don't know if that is still the case. And modern languages had an input into English too, but few pupils take ML beyond year 9 nowadays.
I well remember trying to point out to a pupil that she had spelled a French past participle incorrectly. "Oh, miss, have writ it wrong?", she asked.
I think she was the same pupil who later remarked, "I reckon I've learned more English off of you, miss, than what I have off my English teacher."

HowVeryDareYou2

Someone on Mumsnet, the other day, asked if children still go "Trickle treating" for Halloween

When she was maybe 6, dd1 wrote a piece that ended up on the classroom wall for an open day. It described how she and friends had gone ‘Trickle Treating’ at Halloween!

Daddima

People also seem to stand in ‘que’ s nowadays, ‘our’ becomes ‘are’ and ‘ were’ becomes ‘where’.
I know what you mean, MOnica, but I think a genuine dyslexia or dyspraxia caused mistake is obviously different -looking from forumspeak!
Also, mum2three, that would be grand if only spoken English were being used correctly, but, to me, the constant use of ‘ I’m like’ when describing communication, ‘like’ being used every second word, ‘basically’ and ‘literally’ being used constantly, and many other things, make so much English language painful to listen to.
I think that in schoole the emphasis may be on the content of writing rather than the grammar or spelling, and it’s from social media the sloppiness originates.

‘Schoole’?
Add typing in bed without specs to the list!

'The litter was 'laying' all over the parking lot. What was it laying? Only chickens lay eggs. One of my pet peeves and I see it all the time!
Another that I see often is 'rod iron' for 'wrought' iron.

If people have dyslexia or are poor at spelling why don’t they talk into the device

People also seem to stand in ‘que’ s nowadays, ‘our’ becomes ‘are’ and ‘ were’ becomes ‘where’.
I know what you mean, MOnica, but I think a genuine dyslexia or dyspraxia caused mistake is obviously different -looking from forumspeak!
Also, mum2three, that would be grand if only spoken English were being used correctly, but, to me, the constant use of ‘ I’m like’ when describing communication, ‘like’ being used every second word, ‘basically’ and ‘literally’ being used constantly, and many other things, make so much English language painful to listen to.
I think that in schoole the emphasis may be on the content of writing rather than the grammar or spelling, and it’s from social media the sloppiness originates.

All this is rather hard on those of us with dyslexia and other mental and physical disabilities, that mean that the route from brain to finger tip goes oft awry.

I speak as someone, who combines dyspraxia, with numb fingers and a physical finger 'stutter' that means I often end up with double letters, whre I thought I had typed one.

Yes, I do proof read, but refer you back to my dyspraxia.

I have proof read this post several times, however I am sure it contains at least one or more grammatical, tpographical, or at times, skipped words.

All of this gives the impression that correct English is no longer taught in schools. So much is verbal, rather than written. It must be very confusing for children who are constantly exposed to the American version of English, particularly through the internet.

Grandyma

I recently saw someone offering a “Chester Draws” for sale on our Nextdoor group.

Ah yes, the famous 'chester draws' often appear on FB Marketplace. I think I posted before on here about the woman on one of our local residents' group who was looking for a 'long more'.

Sarnia

There are some spelling and grammatical howlers on Fb. Lightens my day sometimes.

I've seen a few on the local FB page already this morning 😀

There are some spelling and grammatical howlers on Fb. Lightens my day sometimes.

ferry23

Apart from the ubiquitous "should of", our local Fb groups are generously littered with people hoping that

"this is aloud, if not then delete". Or "this shouldn't be aloud".

I realise this is slightly off piste as it's spelling but I had to let off steam somewhere.

Carry on ferry23 and take no notice of the thread police, this is very funny.

Especially if one of us makes a blooper ourselves 😂

It works in other languages too. My DD studied German at Uni and married a German. Her grammar is more accurate than his though she is not as fluent.

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crazyH

Such a shame that the English language has been decimated by the English themselves. If you take a trip to India, for example, you will see how well, even the humble rickshaw-wallah speaks. His diction won’t be perfect, but he will be grammatically correct. Our education system needs an overhaul. Just saying….

Yes, I'd probably say about 10% of what I read on the local FB page has been mangled or misspelt crazyH!

Mangled - def: ruined or spoilt before anyone questions the use of that term.

Disclaimer
"Any mistakes I make are entirely due to fat finger syndrome or autocorrect.

I recently saw someone offering a “Chester Draws” for sale on our Nextdoor group.

crazyH has a point. My ex husband was Greek and his written and spoken English was much more grammatically correct than in the UK.

Decimated?

Maybe check out the meaning of that before ridiculing others, and look at the placement of commas in a sentence?

Sorry - I really don't like coming over all 'English teacher' online, but these threads are so horribly snooty and unkind.