::raises hand:: Like nekochan, I’m guilty of doing the same on the same thread. My excuse is that I taught English last summer, and some instincts have a tendancy to linger.
Anyway, I really just wanted to take this opportunity to say: “Hey, Goboy, great sig!”
OK, TWICE in the last week I’ve been bugged about this. I wrote “hat full” instead of “hatful” and (God forbid) I wrote “peaked” instead of “piqued” (brain fart).
Now I’m not an idiot, and I really thought people enjoyed reading my posts (the peaked error came up during a storytelling post). So why be a critical asshole? Leave me alone and bug someone else!
The second time it happened (today), I was so pissed I actually wrote a flame, then changed my mind. I can’t believe people are that fucking rude. I would never do that to someone who misspoke in real life, so I guess I expect people to give me a little slack while I’m typing. No such luck, I guess. It seriously frosts my ass. It’s not like I’m an illiterate moron. Give me a fucking break!
Zette
(your local spelling differently abled person)
they are simply mean.
bj0rn - a nice person
OK. Got a pencil? It’s M-O-C-K-E-R-Y. Glad to help. Let me know if you run into any more words you don’t feel like spelling. 
Oh, and Zette? [Gleeful irony] I presume you meant “hateful”? [/gleeful irony]
Hear! Hear!
::flees::
[PMS rant] But thanks for presuming it! I meant exactly what I typed:
from http://www.dictionary.com
hatful n 1: (often followed by `of’) a large number or amount or extent: “a batch of letters”; “a deal of trouble”; “a lot of money”; “it must have cost plenty” [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
2: as many or as much as a hat will hold
As in “ugly as a hatful of assholes”.
And I’m STILL pissed about being corrected. (Not at you, Smeg- I’m talking about on my other threads. I realize yours was done in humor.)
I guess I thought people liked reading my posts regardless of an occasional error, but the spelling and grammar mavens have to ruin it. You aren’t my mother or my English teacher, so lay the fuck off, OK? I don’t normally get all pissy over things, but I feel like being publicly corrected is like telling the world that I’m an idiot. It just isn’t right, and I don’t think I (or other people) deserve that.
I think it’s just rude and ridiculous to take me to task over two tiny errors. Imagine how popular you would be if you corrected peoples grammar in REAL life? It doesn’t show how smart you are, it shows how childish you are. Learn how to ignore. Be the bigger person. Hold your tongue and learn to enjoy posts for their content, rather then making the poster sorry he or she bothered to post. That’s all I’m saying here.
End rant- carry on. Feel free to dissect this post and rip apart the spelling and grammar. Have fun, spelling/grammar freaks. [/PMS rant]
DAMN! Damn damn damn damn! ::Banging head against the wall::
Damn damn damn damn damn damn.
Zette – I don’t think I’ve ever even tweaked you on a spelling error. As I said, I now do it mainly in jest.
When I first came here I was quite the spelling zealot; however, I can see that most times it really is just a slip and not due to laziness. I too have times when I just don’t see it and usually, folks let it slide or give me a bit of shit in jest.
Having said that, I still ignore posters who can’t seem to find the shift key. Or can’t seem to insert even one paragraph break into five pages of drivel. You are not one of those. I can understand you and I guess that’s the point.
If I have to sit there and go word by mangled word to figure out what the hell someone is talking about I generally won’t bother. And if you happen to be one of those ribbon clerks on my shit list; yes, I will call you on even the most minute error. Because I hate you.
I think I’m very clear with people when I’m just kidding and when I honestly mean you are an imbecile not worthy of even being connected to the internet.
I think the people who correct bad spelling and grammar are just as unclassy as the people who commit the bad spelling and grammar. As I’ve said before, it just bothers me when people act as if they’ve scored off you by pointing out your more minor flaws.
And you’ll have a hard time convincing me that good spelling and grammar is indicative of being educated. Hell, I’m a pretty good speller, and I don’t know squat! Even though he calls me his best friend.
Freak – good spelling and grammar may not be indicative of being educated but communicating clearly is. There are a lot of posters here who are very casual in their postings but I can understand them. They are able to communicate effectively. That is the main point.
And really, telling us: “I don’t know squat!” is really superfluous. We already KNOW that! 
How so? In my experience people who are good at communicating their ideas are good at it no matter how educated they are. It’s just a trait that a person has or hasn’t.
Very true. But when someone makes their point, and communicates it quite well, then why point out a grammar or spelling mistake? And I’m not saying you do, I’m just saying.
Aha! But that’s a paradox! If I was right when I said I don’t know anything, then I must know something! And therefore… ummm… I was going somewhere with this… I’m sure of it… sorry, I’m kinda sloshed…
Ah, UncaBeer, glad to see you in true form! Nothing like a high-minded, laid back pissant to set things straight! Burst out laughing on this one…
::ominous, scary-clown music:: Can you say…Bj0rn?
There’s a line, generously drawn mostly, between prune-lipped nitpicking and total incomprehensibility. Most folks will overlook the random brain fart, where spelling, grammar, etc. get shaky in the rowdy give-and-take of this place.
Speaking strictly for myself (as opposed to…yeah, yeah, see what I mean?) calling attention to human lapses in spelling, grammar and syntax ranks right down there with attending a dinner party to monitor and sneer at others. Tacky, overall; much tackier than the initial “offense”, not to mention gratingly uncivil.
But the other extreme (Bj0rn) espousing stream of consciousness blather, dependant on telepathy to decipher any meaning, is equally ridiculous. (In fairness, Bj0rn is much better about this; he just tried to make it a crusade for a ridiculous amount of time.)
So…most folks here are print-savvy and knowledge-bound enough to skim over niggly mistakes. But the sword cuts two ways. Nitpicking is just as annoying and time wasting as careless abuse of language.
Veb
(Sorry for the pomposity. I get verbose when peeved. Toss me some beer and I’ll really get obnoxious.)
Tveblen – here’s a beer! ::whack!::
Oh, damn, sorry! Let me hand it to you this time! ::gentle press of cold beer::
I’d love to get you liquored up and see what you are like on a rampage!
Spelling errors are caused by the lack of government subsidies.
Somebody should be ready to shell out if they want me to spell better.
TVeblen: just admit it, you are getting better at telepathy!
bj0rn - by the power of the shift button…
I think I like that. It’s much nicer than curmudgeon.