Spelling Police!!

[maggiebee]

Have just read a post on our local Freegle Site. Wanted: Taylor's dummy.
Don't know whether to laugh or cry!

[Tilly2]

maybe there's a baby called Taylor who needs a new dummy?

[joeluke]

People have different levels of spelling ability so we shouldn't mock

[mushroom25]

Mr Taylor made fine dummies

.......or should that be dummy's....?

[dunnitall]

Oh dear Maggie, think I'd laugh whilst inwardly dying lol. Such is life today with education or lack of it. To those who have no care, those of us brought up in the education system of correctness it does grate....can't help it so can understand maggies thought/question.

[Svejk]

Scotland, innit.

[stuey]

Perhaps Taylor is a ventriloquist:)

[TWR]

Dunnitall, has it ever occurred to you the person might have problem?

[grasscarp]

We saw one on freecycle "wanted tirepauling"
Seems they wanted a tarpaulin!. Saw on bingo chat room - this is doing my heading.

[stuey]

Once saw one at a building site: "This Water Is Portable.".

[Tilly2]

Stuey, what's wrong with that? Was it in a Portaloo?

[dannyk13]

Graham Taylor?

[Tilly2]

He didn't have a dummy, Danny but he did have daft, upside down spectacles.

[Tilly2]

Oh, no! That's Dennis Taylor! Sorry.

[stuey]

Tilly, on a construction site there are usually all kinds of sources of water: some are drinkable, and some are not. For some reason, our Ministry of Labour has decided that the term "Potable" should be used to designate safe-to-drink sources of water...That's "potable", not "portable"...The site-supervisor soon put an end to that sign:)

[Tilly2]

Well, that explains that, stuey. I couldn't find anything wrong with portable.

[DaisyNonna]

Remember when lavatories on trains had a sign saying, This water non-potable.
Did people know more words then?
Avoid train loos now.

[jeffa]

"Did people know more words then?"

Yes, sadly :-(

[kvalidir]

I consider myself fairly literate but I don't feel the need to mock those who aren't or generalise. My father is one of the most articulate and literate people I know, however his writing is littered with spelling and grammar errors because he had a head injury as a child and finds it difficult to always identify them, nothing to do with education or lack of it. I think it's unkind to mock and deride other people who have done us no harm.

[sherrardk]

Himself can't spell for toffee (strange early education and brought up speaking German for the first couple of years of his life). I can mark typing/word processing and I notice 'mistakes' really easily but I don't point them out unless I have been asked to.

[dunnitall]

Who is mocking? This is an opinion not mockery and to those of us who think in a certain way then it does grate. It doesn't mean we don't consider others problems, it just show afaic that we all have different ways of dealing with things.