Well, not single mis-spelled words individually, so much as the wrong word used (there instead of their or were in place of where) over and over. For me, trying to read something that has mis-spells and grammatical errors like that is almost like hearing fingernails on a blackboard. I don’t mean to say that I don’t understand that some people have difficulties with spelling and grammar and indeed I sympathsize with them. It’s just that I have difficulty reading material like that!
I guess this is really a minor cough manifestation of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in myself. On several other boards that I frequent (certainly not on SDMB, of course :)), there are posts that I just have to avoid for my own sanity, particularly if they are long. Wish there was something I could do about it, other than maybe take some sort of anti-anxiety med, that is. LOL Just thought that I’d share this, and hopefully there are others out there who have a similar reaction?
I, too, am a speling notsee, but I can and do bite my tongue many, many times a day. I seem to have some weird love/hate thing with commas and apostrophes myself, so why complain about the foibles of others?
OMG! I misspelled myself! Argh. No, this definitely was not a bait post, folks. And sympathize is a word that I have trouble spelling. What brought it on was reading several posts in a row on another forum. Granted, English is -not- the easiest language in the world; far from it, it is chock full of grammatical contradictions and spellings that sometimes do not make sense. Not wanting to take anti-anxiety meds for something this minor, I guess I just have to learn to live with it, and turn off that “fingernails on the blackboard” sound in my head when I run across it.
And thanks to all who replied–even those of you who graciously pointed out my own errors!
