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Interestingly, when I've shown text such as that to folks, I've found that people who don't do any reading on the computer (ie. public forums such as this, email, or messaging) often have a harder time understanding it. Folks that regularly spend some time online seem to have an easier time with it.
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 Originally Posted by Zyzzyx
Interestingly, when I've shown text such as that to folks, I've found that people who don't do any reading on the computer (ie. public forums such as this, email, or messaging) often have a harder time understanding it. Folks that regularly spend some time online seem to have an easier time with it.
That's probably because the computer users have to often figure out the mishmash that some people call spelling online.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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I dnot gte ti, woh hsa a prboelm udnsertndanig P1M?
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Originally Posted by davedove
That's probably because the computer users have to often figure out the mishmash that some people call spelling online.
Ayup, I thingk yore rite about that oen. ;)
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eye am no sepllnig onyihtin' wnarg, tugohh...
ma selipin is aulatlcy pfiracet... it's jsut in Stocs...
giud alud ietm trehe tguohh, Rlirveikt...
aye ha' seen it arofe...
it wkros weel oan slaml wdros... but ai danine ken how weel it wkros oan...
mriae ctlpeaoicmd and olrevy vsboere miblytillsauc werdos...
an eye ken yur jus hrieavn an tkean a psis...
giud oan ya , ya alud rslbeuoaelbr... 
Stnliae!
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 I could even understand P1M on that last post
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Originally Posted by davedove
That's probably because the computer users have to often figure out the mishmash that some people call spelling online.
No, for me, it's having to figure out what I meant to write sometimes. That's why you might notice a lot of my posts have been edited. I post them and look later and say, "now what was that word supposed to be" and change it. For the record, I'm not a bad speller, but I can't type worth a crap.
"A day spent in the fields and woods, or on the water should not count as a day off our allotted number upon this earth."
Jerry, Kilted Old Fart.
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Doesn't make me real happy about all those spelling test growing up!
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6th June 06, 12:07 AM
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Many years ago-early 50's, I was staying at the Youth Hostel in Dunblane: and for whatever reason there was a group of lads from Glasgow-and another from Edinburgh.
In those pre-TV days they were from different planets-so I and my English chum had to translate between the two groups.
Another bit to the story-during the war I was sent to a private school in Hampshire [southern England] thanks to my accent-I was called Scottie [did they notice my kilt?]-to that I added a bit of Hampshire: so by my prep school only I could understand what I was saying--thanks to teacher and pupil pressure I gradually started to speak with a semi English accent-which had turned in pure English by the time I left my public school.
As a result, though now when drunk I can do cod Irish and Welsh-I cannot do anything from north of the border. I suppose a consequence of trying so hard to speak like my peers, so many years ago.
James
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