On one hand, yes he’s doing it on purpose and is an ass for doing so. On the other hand, the misspellings are like Jon for John and Jamie for Jaime. I don’t even notice until someone makes a post correcting it.
This isn’t a good example though, you need to flip it to be accurate - imagine you were reading a thread about a show set in WWII, and in the show the place names were all spelled like your example. Then a poster comes along referring to all of the places with their normal spelling, and someone started a pit thread about it.
Newbie. I was there when it was Mighty Big TV.
That point only holds for a small number of names (John/Jon and the like), and the reading hiccups remain for those familiar with the in-universe spellings in either scenario.
In any case, honest misspellings are one thing. The pit thread was started for alleged intentional misspellings. So take the flipped WWII example and assume the poster is doing it just to annoy others.
So, does this mean that Samuel L. Jackson has to call them melonfarming snakes from now on?
That would be true for Yara, but nobody else.
I don’t think there is any mention of tits in the books. Dugs, yes, but no tits.
Which we all know is just a cutesy-wootsy nickname for “asshole that’s also a control freak”. Take your pendants and shove em up your ass.
Why do you think you are special enough to dictate what others must do? What is your fucking deal?
Are you a robot? Because this is not how most humans work. I mean I’m pretty good at both writing and reading, and there are still words I consistently misspell after looking them up numerous times. And as a teacher I can say with confidence it is not how people who’re not good at writing and reading work.
I’m not going to tell you to get over it, cause obsessing about other people’s spelling is probably as ingrained in you as whatever’s going on with Critical1.
Well, in olden times, there quite often weren’t settled spelling conventions. You’ll find Sir Walter Raleigh written as Raliegh, Rayly, Rawley or Raulighe. People apparently didn’t get too outraged. And that’s, you know, in the actual real-world; getting outraged about fake olden-times spellings seems to me yet a step more removed from reasonableness. I just pretend I read a period-appropriate document!
I thought this misspelling was taking place in a thread where other people who actually do spell correctly are posting. Knowing the correct spelling is about as easy as not deliberately ignoring the very posts you’re replying to.
My Gramma was a knot sea
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I built houses for the poor with my bare hands, I saved 9 children from a burning school, I placed 1st three years in a row in the local pub’s snooker tourney. But farm ONE melon…!
Correct. It’s not even his spelling that bothers me anymore, it’s his continued willful ignorance.
If that were true, I’d know how to spell all the names by now. It’s also OK to fucking let shit go.
I think U shud all agree to txtspk on the str8 dope. It’s ez 4 U to grok wat im saying, so shud be gud.
Personally I’d let it go. Life’s too short.
That having been said, if it’s really bugging you, AND he spells them the same way consistently then let your computer work for you. You can write a small script, it’s really easy, in a plugin for your own browser that will substitute GRRMs spellings for the ones Critical1 uses.
Then voila, you see the spellings which don’t jar you, and it requires no change on his part. Win-win.
Enjoy,
Steven
Damn your eyes!
Peter Capaldi will always be Basil Disco to me.
+1
(despite coming in here hoping to discuss GoT with an actual farmer of melons)