Regarding misspelled words

[danimich1]

I know it's funny to go to freeperville and make fun of the misspelled words and to come back here and laugh about it. Some of the mistakes are quite funny to me, too.

However, there are A LOT of misspelled words here ("Check Spelling" anyone?), words used incorrectly, and certainly quite a bit of improper usage that are genuine mistakes by posters here at DU.

Nobody is perfect, and mistakes are to be expected. But when people purposely misspell words, the joke is lost on a lot of the readers. One example that comes to mind is, "HUGH!!" How do we know that you didn't just misspell that word rather than spell it that way to ridicule freepers?

Perhaps I am overly sensitive to the misspelling and improper usage, but it happens enough on its own, that adding misspelled words simply as an inside joke may not always work IMHO. I worry that these inside jokes may make some of the posters here look ignorant, especially to people who are new to this site, or to the media that often looks at this site.

Obviously people will continue to do this if they think it's funny, but keep in mind that a lot of people are reading these words. Just my two cents, or maybe my HUGH!! two cents.

Flame if you want to, but I just really needed to post this.

[d_b]

1. series bizniss

[skooooo]

2. You are so knave!!!

:rofl:

[Billy Burnett]

3. Its hugh1111

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Don't cast asparagus. I'm series.

[prayin4rain]

5. yes, it is important not to look like a moran n/t

:)

[notadmblnd]

6. anyone that has spent any time here knows and all newbies have to do is ask

It's nice to have you here, but if it bothers you that much....

[Kind of Blue]

71. Okay, cool. Can somebody please tell me what n/t means?

Freeper, hugh, Muslin, et al, I've figured out. But I cannot figure n/t and was scarred to ax. thansk.

[kath]

73. DU Glossary here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x190

Very helpful - highly recommend for newbies, and those not so new.

"n/t" (even stuff like this is in the glossary) means "no text" following, in other words the entire message appears in the subject line; nothing else follows.

[Kind of Blue]

92. Thank You!

[Fumesucker]

74. That would be "no text"

Meaning you do not need to read further than the title since there is nothing in teh obdy of teh psot.

[Kind of Blue]

93. Thanks! n/t

[illuminaughty]

82. LOL "scarred to ax"

[geckosfeet]

7. I mispell 'cause the freepers are morans.

[Ikonoklast]

8. You are preeching too the quier.

I can relait.

[moobu2]

9. That is so crasia

[ColbertWatcher]

10. ...

[Kingofalldems]

11. I've seen misspellings here and have done it myself but

I have never seen a DUer get the word 'huge' wrong. With that said, I think you're post was HUGH and I won't cast asparagus.

[skooooo]

12. Light the candle opera!

:rofl:

[HughMoran]

13. Fock of and diy trol

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

14. misspelt

:hide:

[elshiva]

15. This post is inspyred.

[Cresent City Kid]

16. Miss speled werds R smal potatoes

[jimshoes]

17. I don't want to cast asparagus,

but it's just having some fun with freeper spellings. I'm series.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. Its Otay 2 Make Fun Of The Morans. Im series!!11111 The Misspellings Are Hugh!!!!!!11111

[tularetom]

19. You've been around awhile even though you haven't posted much

but surely you can't think we're such a bunch of morans. And if you were a freeper lurking here, why the fuck would I even care if you thought I was a moran?

I'm series.

[PeaceNikki]

20. Yeah, we totally shouldn't poke fun.

[elshiva]

24. EVERBODY?

[PeaceNikki]

28. From a recent John McCain ad

At :12 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZ3o0Di7Go

[ColbertWatcher]

31. EVERBODY! LOL! Good catch! n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

33. And a screengrab, just for you!

[kath]

76. OMG!!1! This is HUGH!1!1! In an actual McCain ad???

Jeebus.

[Tansy_Gold]

50. One to add. . . .

but for some reason or other I can't get it to post right! :argh:







(edited -- got it!)

[kath]

77. Wow. How...... competant.

Just wow.

[Tansy_Gold]

86. Her obnoxious husband was handing them around to the group I have

coffee with several times a week. I didn't even look at it once I found the elephant, but a friend pointed out the misspelling. I forwarded it to one of the local newspapers, the editor of which is a lefty. He printed the letter I wrote to go with it.

I think her website was written by Sarah Palin.

[LuckyLib]

52. These DU classics are a hoot. Especially those about English as the "offical" language!

[EFerrari]

56. It's the Big Book of Freaker!

lol

[illuminaughty]

83. I especially love the incorrect "mavrick" at the convention

Because I believe all those signs had to pass some kind of inspection. I was howling when I saw that one. That's almost like not knowing how to spell the candidate's name.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

21. I have no idea if

Freeperland has a spell check.
I went over there once but couldn't stay more than three nanoseconds, so didn't stay long enough to confirm.

[sui generis]

22. overly sensitive!

The important thing in a fabulous painting is the idea, not the width of the brush stroke. If you focus on the leaves, you're missing the trees and the the forest.

[bhikkhu]

72. That's something to rememberate!

[Lorien]

23. I'm quite dyslexic, so I often type words that sound similar

to the intended word, or are spelled similarly-but have a totally different meaning (like "lose" instead of "loose"). I agree; most of us make plenty of mistakes. I think the thing that's noticeable when it comes to Freeper misspellings is the sheer volume of them in a single sentence or paragraph, or the signs they put up for public consumption that are badly misspelled ("Moran" and "Muslin" come to mind). Those aren't as easily forgiven.

[lynettebro440]

60. Have that same disease myself

and totally agree Lorien

[VeraAgnes]

25. I misspell words here at DU

and members insult me.....are they freepers? I have a touch of dyslexia which causes me to misspell on an occasion, I also use other keyboards while say at work, type in a hurry or use my tiny PDA pad, also make a mistake.

So, what is up with members who want to tease and bagger other members over such a benign issue? Why the the need to harass or insult another? I think such people are feeling inferior, shame-based and possibly suffer from being sexually abused and or are alcoholics.

[Speck Tater]

26. Nothing screams "I'M IGNORANT" like that non-word "alot".

It's a (space) lot. as in "a lot", "a few", "a whole bunch". NOT "alot", "afew", "awholebunch".

What the hell ever happened to elementary education in this country?

[Raine]

38. That's one I like to use alot

:P ;-)

[ColbertWatcher]

40. Hopefully, people will stop using it. n/t

[skooooo]

42. I swear in school i learned alot was a word!

[Speck Tater]

51. When in doubt, look it up in the dictionary. It ain't there. NT

[Raine]

61. Actually I'm sure I did too

that's how I got in the habit. Words and their usage along with spelling change so I wonder if it once was a word but it was later disgarded. :shrug:

[DireStrike]

68. disgarded isn't a word, I'm afraid!

Discarded, yep. Disregarded, sure.

DisGard is actually a trademark of some medical supply-thingie.

Some rules just need to yield to new words that make perfect sense. "Stupider", for example.

[Raine]

91. Yeah I know...my bad

I meant to say discarded but it was either a typo or my brain took two words (discarded and disregard) and combined them. :blush: UGH I need to proofread carefully. :spank:

[EFerrari]

55. Thats because your a DU trool.

:)

[Raine]

62. Korrect

:rofl:

[wtmusic]

46. Related one that I see...a lot:

"There were a lot of people at the Obama rally."

:crazy:

[BrklynLiberal]

27. Sorry...but...

[Stinky The Clown]

29. 'chovies?

[depakid]

30. There are typos and omission mistakes that many of us make

-and then there are the sorts of misspellings, misuses and grammatical errors that indicate that a person is barely literate, and rarely ever reads or writes.

Those are typically what I see in comments by right wingers on message boards. Makes one wonder how in the world they ever got through ELEMENTARY school.

[Raine]

32. it prolly jest morans and idjets dewing it.

:silly: ;-)

[danimich1]

34. Ha ha

:}

Well, at least now everyone knows all the misspelled words that the freepers use all the time.

Seriesly

[danimich1]

35. Ha ha

:}

Well, at least now everyone knows all the misspelled words that the freepers use all the time.

Seriesly!

[wtmusic]

36. Gratuitous commas drive me nuts

as in:

"Perhaps I am overly sensitive to the misspelling and improper usage, but it happens enough on its own>,< that adding misspelled words simply as an inside joke may not always work IMHO."

;-)

[ColbertWatcher]

39. What about those high comma's? The apostrophe's? n/t

[wtmusic]

44. Apply liberally - can't have too ma'ny nt

[BlooInBloo]

37. Me fail English? That's unpossible!

[BlooInBloo]

41. hahahah! My current funny one is the guy who thinks "yay" means "yes"...

:rofl:

[4 t 4]

43. I don't know if your a freeper or not

but no doubt this site is filled with a bunch of pretentious ass holes that quite often don't even pay attention to the CONTENT they just focus on picking apart your spelling, grammar ect.... No doubt this is and old boy's club too! Just like anywhere else you go in life even though we all think we have something in common with this site because of the fact that we are liberal these people are sometimes just as sicking as any Group of people. If you have a number that is less than 1000, Good Fucking Luck! Now, that is in part because of so many freepers joining on line, but still there is a click here no doubt!! I come here to learn there are some people that post the most informative info I could ever hope to find. Then there are people that are just nice and want to help and make contact, then there are the majority of the rest. They are the problem and they are the majority. If your not a freeper I Apologize. I really don't care what happens from here you can all ignore me!!!

[donco6]

45. It's like a secret handshake. You know it or you don't.

And if you don't, we may have to shoot you. I'm series!!!1!

[4 t 4]

47. Thankes fore youre really importante pointe!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am all clear now!

[nemo137]

48. Your so rite. I think it's called "register switching."

The internet is seen as a more informal mode than other written forms, so people are more loose in their writing. It's similar to how I'll describe something as "real big" when I'm talking to a friend, but I wouldn't dare write it or use it when speaking formally.

[ColbertWatcher]

54. I blame texting.

And that most of the freepers are not "low information voters" like the GOP-controlled media calls them, but instead they are "talk radio information voters."

They've never seen the words written; they've only heard them.

So, they just guess at the spelled based on how it sounds.

[nemo137]

57. There are a couple really good scifi stories about the death of the written word.

None of which, of course, I can remember right now.

Although, I confess, I still mistype "important" as "inportant," because that's how it sounded to me growing up.

[ColbertWatcher]

58. Meh. They're so close on the keyboard anyway. n/t

[Sydnie]

49. You are misunderestimating us.

It's one of those 'inside things' that gets asked about often. We don't mind it being asked about at all.

Anyone who reads here and can add either figures it out or asks. So don't cast asparagus at a time honored tradition, m'kay?

[arcadian]

53. Thank for you're consern.

[SidDithers]

59. Thank you for your incite...nt

Sid

[SheilaT]

63. Spell check is your friend.

I get very, very tired of posts filled with misspellings that spell check would catch. We all make mistakes. If you use a wrong word that is otherwise correctly spelled, spell check won't help. But I also am tired of HUGH, and series, and moran and all the other supposedly cute misspellings that are from freeperland. And when someone here doesn't bother to do a simple spell check it makes DU look like a bunch of idiots.

And, one more time: eye tee apostrophe s (it's) is a contraction for it is. The possessive has no contraction. Please try to get that straight.

[asdjrocky]

64. Stop being a Moran.

And welcome to DU :hi:!

[TooRaLoo]

65. Stop goating people!

It just makes everthing werse!

[hedgehog]

66. I'm bullish on kudzu! It's going places!

[struggle4progress]

67. spellig notzee

[progressivebydesign]

69. these misspelled words make me loose my mine! n/t

[riverdeep]

70. Yeah, gud luuc with thad. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

75. LOL!

:D

[EFerrari]

78. . . .

:rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

79. Oi!

Tudo bem? :hug:

Um pic novo:

[EFerrari]

80. Camp Stepford Grad!

:applause:

[Swamp Rat]

81. I was thinking more like, Fascist Girls Gone Wild

But you are right, too. :D

[EFerrari]

85. A whole cult of compulsive liars or Cadillac People!

[Swamp Rat]

87. Here's a new one I just finished:

:D

[EFerrari]

90. LOL! McCrabhand.

:applause:

[lunatica]

84. Just don't tutch the butt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

88. That is the most beautiful story I have ever heard

tonight.

[lunatica]

89. We are so screwn! n/t