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After reading way too many posts over the last 4 years or so, I have concluded that most of the posters are less than ten years old and have less than 6 months experience with computers and cameras.

The spelling and English language context is awful(sorry-this is not meant for non-English speaking posters).

How can we take a post seriously when the poster ignores spellcheck?

Same is true for basic language construction(e.g.-subject-verb-object).

Let's all clean up our act. Me include(d?)
 
rvogie said:
After reading way too many posts over the last 4 years or so, I have concluded that most of the posters are less than ten years old and have less than 6 months experience with computers and cameras.

The spelling and English language context is awful(sorry-this is not meant for non-English speaking posters).

How can we take a post seriously when the poster ignores spellcheck?
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There is no spellcheck in DPReview's posting windows. Wish there was. To spellcheck now requires copying the post somewhere else to spellcheck with correction and then copying it back.

BTW, my computer experience goes back to the beginning of the 70's with mainframes and punched card systems. Personal computers to the mid 80's. And my camera experience goes back to the beginning of the 50's with SLR, early 90's with DLSR. Does that mean I don't fit? I certainly feel and am much older than 10 years.

Walt
 
WaltKnapp said:
rvogie said:
After reading way too many posts over the last 4 years or so, I have concluded that most of the posters are less than ten years old and have less than 6 months experience with computers and cameras.

The spelling and English language context is awful(sorry-this is not meant for non-English speaking posters).

How can we take a post seriously when the poster ignores spellcheck?
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There is no spellcheck in DPReview's posting windows. Wish there was. To spellcheck now requires copying the post somewhere else to spellcheck with correction and then copying it back.
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Firefox has spell check.

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Rick
 
BTW, my computer history goes back to the mid 60's, Iliac II at U of Illinois. Personal PC to the Commodore 64. Slrs to the 70's. Don't mean to pick on anyone, but when posts have "there" instead of "their" , etc. it is hard to take them seriously IMO. By the way, when I typed Slrs DPR underlined it in red. Right click and it offers suggestions. Thought you might want to know.
 
I'm a high school social studies teacher just getting ready to retire. You'd be surprised at how horrible spelling and grammar is these days. It's also not the teacher's fault. We try our best but have to compete with students who spend more time texting then studying and reading a both with proper grammar. I have a college graduate student teacher who sent me an email that was full of texting type spellings. I suspect it will only get worse. Reading posts with a few grammar and spelling errors don't bother me as much as the off of photography topics and comments that posters make. Off topic rants and comments on politics, etc. have no place here.
 
fpiraino said:
I'm a high school social studies teacher just getting ready to retire. You'd be surprised at how horrible spelling and grammar is these days. It's also not the teacher's fault. We try our best but have to compete with students who spend more time texting then studying and reading a both with proper grammar.
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Lucky me. I've been living in Northern Ireland for over 30 years now, and my children were brought up here. Our primary (up to 11) schools still do outdated things like teaching tables and spellings. Result - by the age of 10 they're expected to be numerate and literate. Oh, and we still have Grammar Schools in spite of the efforts of some of the politicians.
 
I´m not a native English speaker, but I know a left bracket should be preceded by a space in normal written language; a parenthesis is not a container of parameters for the preceding word / function! Funny your spell checker doesn´t show that. :D
 
Great, now buy them all Sony DSLRs and have those literate children start posting here in our favorite forum.
 
No spelcheck? Better look again:



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Answer: Mon to Fri. Nothing, Sat & Sun I rest!
 
Well, that confirms it, Walt will no longer post to this. Thanks.
 
Don't tell me what 2 dew tawk about fatogafee!
rvogie said:
After reading way too many posts over the last 4 years or so, I have concluded that most of the posters are less than ten years old and have less than 6 months experience with computers and cameras.

The spelling and English language context is awful(sorry-this is not meant for non-English speaking posters).

How can we take a post seriously when the poster ignores spellcheck?

Same is true for basic language construction(e.g.-subject-verb-object).

Let's all clean up our act. Me include(d?)
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I agre I thunk.
 
and most of the posters are not native english speakers....
rvogie said:
After reading way too many posts over the last 4 years or so, I have concluded that most of the posters are less than ten years old and have less than 6 months experience with computers and cameras.

The spelling and English language context is awful(sorry-this is not meant for non-English speaking posters).

How can we take a post seriously when the poster ignores spellcheck?

Same is true for basic language construction(e.g.-subject-verb-object).

Let's all clean up our act. Me include(d?)
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One of the most common errors on this and many other forums is the use of the apostrophe in the word ITS - there should not be an apostrophe in that word unless it is the shortened form of IT IS.
Thus the sentence:

Your camera has its strap connected incorrectly, even although you think it's quite right.
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KiwiBee
 
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