Understanding Pour1Malt

[Iolaus]

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.

I suspect that's because many people who don't spend a lot of time online may not be regular readers; they may only read when they have to, therefore, their brains aren't trained to the same degree that regular readers are. Try showing it to several people who aren't on-line, but read books and magazines all the time (pleasure readers), and see if you get the same result.

[Jerry]

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.

[bangkok kilt]

Doesn't make me real happy about all those spelling test growing up!

[James]

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

[Pour1Malt]

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!

[Livingston]

I could even understand P1M on that last post

[switchblade5984]

that was so awesome!