LornaW opened this issue on Oct 03, 2006 · 104 posts
Acadia posted Tue, 03 October 2006 at 5:39 PM
I'm dyslexic and have an excuse for my bad spelling here. Since they changed the forums, my spell checker doesn't work here because it relies on right clicking, which only shows cut/copy/paste here :(
I try hard to catch my spelling, but it's hard when to do when I'm seeing one thing and my brain is processing it as something else. Often I don't see my spelling until it's too late to edit the post.
If my bad spelling at times bothers people, all I can say is "live with it, because I have to!"
Another factor for bad spelling is that not everyone here has English as their first language. I think it's awful to make fun of someone's spelling because you don't know the circumstances behind it. Yes, it could be laziness, but it could be something else.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi