I don’t.
You know, poster grievances aside, I really want to know wherefrom that “this is the internet, I don’t have to spell right here” idea comes from. The same meme floats around the French intertubes too, and it pisses me off just as much.
I mean what the hell ? Of course spelling, grammar and so forth matter in a more or less solely writing based communication medium ! What the unicycling fuck do you chuckletwats think grammar and spelling are meant *for *?
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That and failure is inevitable, and that’s totally okay.
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Give yourself over to the failure inside of you, and let it envelop your soul.
Okay I was pretty sure that that’s what pitting is, but I just wanted to clarify.
Actually, a pitting is where we strap you down and forcibly remove all your bones, so that only the soft gooey fruit that is your flesh will remain when we eat you.
I thought that was flensing.
Oh come on! My smartphone probably messed it up. I meant “spelling”. Sorry for the inconvenience.
EDIT: It may seem like a bad excuse but I use my smartphone a lot one the Message Board to quickly reply and it’s hard to always be so correct and quick, and sometimes the auto-correct feature messes up.
Whew! For a minute there I was afraid this two-month-old thread would end without that being put on the record.
Worst revival of an appropriately moribund thread ever.
[sub]well, in the top 10 anyway[/sub]
Since we’re so into this whole ‘‘two months later response’’ thing…
Ok. You know what? You have a point. My issue with the grammar criticism thing is that it unfairly discriminates against people who are intelligent but not educated, or intelligent but with some kind of learning disability. But from an aesthetic perspective, as a writer myself, I get what you’re saying. Also, the young man in question is apparently really fucking brilliant so he has no excuse.
Revives a months old Pit thread against himself to to blame a telephone for his spelling. Hmmm… I believe that MIT expects students to acknowledge responsibility for their own mistakes. Oh, well, there are plenty of other schools out there, including (from what I’ve heard) some very fine clown colleges.
Seriously, don’t sweat this. It is one of the “small things” (look that up). I’ve been pitted 4 times that I know of and I am the single most beloved poster on this message board.
Ah, sorry - that got a little mangled by posting from my phone. I meant to say that you were the “most beloved simple poster on the board.” 
It was supposed to be “belabored”.
A long essay on a particular subject? A lengthy, formal treatise? Something that most people don’t give a shit about reading or hearing about except for the person who wrote it?
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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
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Anyone? Anyone?
I am not one bit like that. 
Your point is well taken. Everyone here heeds good advice on the first go round. No one makes excuses for rules, whether they are real or not. And no one defends their poor choices or shortcomings either. I hope this kid finally gets the message before he gets awkward and fat because he self-diagnoses as autistic and allergic to exercise.
Well, the bit about auto-correct was pretty close.
Y’know, back in high school, when I was taking typing class, if we tried to type too fast or didn’t pay enough attention and the wrong characters ended up on the page, you know what Mrs. Najima said?
“That’s wrong. Start over.”
Blaming your errors on your inability to use the technology available to you is just sad, like saying "You know, I wouldn’t tailgate if the people ahead of me weren’t going slower than I want to. I could change lanes, but really, this lane is just fine and if I tailgate long enough, they’ll get out of my way and everything will be perfect.
but I’m not bitter.
Yeah, well I’m a good typist. I type around 80-85 WPM with near perfection, and usually when I’m on my computer, I try to be grammatical and spell correctly.
It’s just that on my phone it’s just way too time-consuming to be so correct and sometimes I’m in a hurry and the auto-correct feature fails.
And even on my smartphone, my errors are not too major. I really don’t understand the problem. I try to be grammatical and have correct spelling, but you have to be realistic, right? I mean how can you expect one to be so perfect on a mobile device.
There’s a difference between typing and using a smartphone keyboard. And like I said, I don’t make that many errors even if I’m on a smartphone.
You know, eventually I’m just going to leave the Straight Dope Message board if you expect me to be so perfect (in ANY condition, even if I’m typing on a smartphone).
Here’s a cookie.