Or be part of a username on SDMB…
(not that I had 'ol Pete in mind when I chose this handle, mind you :smack: :o)
There’s Noone Special here at the Dope, too!
ETA: Hey - how’d you sneak in there??? 
Nope, most people do not read. Not even signs.
“Hires textures.” WHO does the hiring, come again? Poor little lost hyphen…
Hee. I manage the email account for our reporting system and once we got someone writing in to let us know about a typo on a report.
gigi, ever grateful for people who care about such things*: Thanks so much for letting us know!
user: Your welcome.
*and ashamed she didn’t catch the typo
It’s not always just a typo, either. I have seen people say that they “broke” for a red light. They’re not aware that break and brake are different words with different past tenses.
Umm…because when you read, you SEE WORDS? And if you are reading a mass publication, advertisement, cereal box, etc you will likely see all the words spelled correctly and therefore eventually see them enough that you recognize them when they are misspelled? If I have never seen a word I won’t know how it’s spelled, but if I see words like BRAKE all the time I eventually remember.
And you’re being just as snobby as us who notice and are annoyed or saddened by misspellings by acting like we’re assholes for noticing. And yeah I feel smarter than someone who either doesn’t know or can’t be bothered to spell common words correctly or use common words correctly. Failing to do so shows a lack of education or laziness.
(reads thread)
Can anyone out there clarify for me whether or not “rate of speed” is redundant? It’s always driven me nuts when you have someone who is (I think) desperate to make themselves feel smarter by needlessly extending their sentences, and so they say, “I done seened that vehicle moving at a high rate of speed through the crosswalk.”
Really? Because I’m pretty sure “speed” is dx/dt or distance/time or to put it in a way that’s right on your speed-o-meter, miles/hour.
Speed is already a rate, right? So “high rate of speed” is completely redundant, right?
-Joe
I have a problem with misspelling words, and I swap same sounding word’s as well. As annoying as it is for everyone else, it’s much more frustrating for me. They don’t have to deal with it all the time for a lifetime. People assume you’re an idiot, and in this E-mail and Texting age, it’s effects reach to heights where it cripples my means to communicate with others. I often forget how to spell my own middle name. So, yeah, I’m a moron.
Oh, but my reading comprehension is good though.
But how else do you learn how to spell? I don’t look up every word in the dictionary. Heck, 99% of spelling and word usage comes from reading.
Or maybe I just read differently than other people.
Reading HELPS me, but I have difficulty with ‘symbols’. I can’t see the trees from the forest, so to speak. It’s due to a learning disability.
BTW; so there’s no confusion when I said; “So, yeah, I’m a moron.” I didn’t mean it as hyperbole. It’s just wry humor. I had to google “wry” so I was sure it wasn’t the same spelling as the bread, “rye”. It takes me FOREVER to post here, and my posts are still chalk-full of mistakes.
What did Kurtis Blow say to his son when he was teaching him how to drive?
These are the BRAKES.
You’re talking about acceleration, right? (the rate at which the speed changes…)
“He’s a very insulate person”
No he’s not, he’s insular you dum fuck
Freddy Quimby: “It’s ‘chowder’. Say it right!”
“Come back here. I’m not threw demeaning you.”
I heard that in a movie once! I wish I could remember what it was called - I saw it on a late show about 30 years ago. The villain describes how he got hold of some magic elixir and “took a long healthy drot”.
Almost everyone I know of my parents’ generation does not know how to spell properly. It seems to have something to do with how they were taught to read. They seem to have the same problem sounding out words they are unfamiliar with.
(The exceptions are people that Dopers would probably consider nerds.)
You called?
My guess there is that they’re mixing insular with isolated.
Don’t be so insolent, you pillock