The Kintyre Forum

Most probably what I would do is open up a school for spelling properly, as half the people on here have no idea how to spell properly.

This is not a attack on locals, just an observation I have made while watching this forum over the last month or so.
There are members on this forum who show a real lack of education and common sense, is this attributed too the education they have received ? I think not, more likely the way off the younger generation in this crazy world of text writing, the more I read these post the more I start writing like them. Now I find I can write it and read it with both eyes and hands, and I fall into the trap off thinking im young again.

So whn yr pstng yr nxt mssg n hr, rmmbr, nt evryn rds psts r ndrstnds psts tht r wrttn n txt lngge.
Translation for the older generation:
So when your posting your next message on here, remmember not everyone reads posts or understands posts that are written in text langauge.

I think im going to enjoy being part of this forum there is good banter on here and not too many idiots, which helps.

That would bee too many idiots pop, no to

be not bee

Welcome to the forum Auld...! We had another pop here once.... sorely missed by all his friend

Surfbored wrote:That would bee too many idiots pop, no to

Well pull me up for missing an Oh, but when you have reached the age that time forgot you will realise we tend to use up a lot more Oh's than usual, and thats just gettig up from the chair, where as our better halfs tend to use up the majority of their Oh's, when in bed. If your lucky, or good.

Sorry Bobbie En Tejas, I never knew that, I will ask the moderators if I should change my user name so as too avoid confusion.

Auld Pop wrote:

Surfbored wrote:That would bee too many idiots pop, no to

Well pull me up for missing an Oh, but when you have reached the age that time forgot you will realise we tend to use up a lot more Oh's than usual, and thats just gettig up from the chair, where as our better halfs tend to use up the majority of their Oh's, when in bed. If your lucky, or good.

Sorry Bobbie En Tejas, I never knew that, I will ask the moderators if I should change my user name so as too avoid confusion.

Yes - I was thinking of the old one too and got me scrambling to find their username. It was take_a_pop

Welcome on board anyway and thanks for posting.

I don't know why people don't just use a spppeeeeeelchecher?

english mine good is

Nuvver mind the monkeys dung wee man, yiv made a right pigs ear o yir ain spellin an nae mistake. Ah dinna meen wan o they puns at that bit, but its hoorafa good isunt it? An ee missin oot o the "there" yi nuvver geed yirsel a capital eye eether, as for the too an the ? too far away fae the end o the word!! Wherrs it anniend?

So much fur the sad end yi reached earlier on this year.
Yi wir gettin help tae snuff it fae a guy fae Vietnam or Cambodia or sumwherr is hoot I herd. Dont bother yir shirt tail deenyin it eether. We ah herd aboot this Youth in Asia that wis gan ti gee yi a han tae keek the bucket, naw lake yir usual take a bucket.

Still, its good tae see yi back even if yi sound a bit subj, a bit subd, naw lake yirsel enoo.

hoot a walluper ahll type howeva ah lke and ull dae natin aboot it auld bastard

Mister Boat, I dont remember asking you too correct your spelling, can you?
Fact is I dont give a toss in what direction you sail your boat, as long as its in the opposite one too me.
Better still pull your stopper out and sink, you talk a hull load off fish, or should that have been a P.

Auld Pop wrote:Most probably what I would do is open up a school for spelling properly, as half the people on here have no idea how to spell properly.

So whn yr pstng yr nxt mssg n hr, rmmbr, nt evryn rds psts r ndrstnds psts tht r wrttn n txt lngge.
Translation for the older generation:
So when your posting your next message on here, remmember not everyone reads posts or understands posts that are written in text language

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I agree with chrisduffy that the brain can rearrange randomly arranged text to recognise a word. His submission amply demonstrates this. In order to do this, however, there must be a recognised arrangement of letters into which the brain can translate. We therefore do actually need to have accepted spellings. The fact that the brain is capable of performing this task does not provide an excuse for widespread slovenly spelling, and I don't imagine for one minute that this was the reason for the research at Cambridge University.

I also agree with Auld Pop that it is good to make an effort to spell correctly and write with reasonably accurate grammar, as it gives more credibility to what you have to say, and makes your contribution look worthwhile, even if it isn't.

I do hope however that Auld Pop is referring to submissions in standard English, and does not include the submissions to this forum that are written in Campbeltownese, as this is a legitimate Scots dialect that should have as much status as Doric, Lallans, etc. It is part of our identity.

This is my first contribution to this forum, although I have been an unregistered browser for several months. I notice that on this thread, as in many others, the discussion descends into personal abuse very quickly. Is this the refuge for those who have run out of ideas to promote their argument, or am I missing the point, that this is the function of Speakers Corner? I think not. In many cases, the less valid one's argument is, the more forcibly it is expounded.

EMDEE wrote:I agree with chrisduffy that the brain can rearrange randomly arranged text to recognise a word. His submission amply demonstrates this. In order to do this, however, there must be a recognised arrangement of letters into which the brain can translate. We therefore do actually need to have accepted spellings. The fact that the brain is capable of performing this task does not provide an excuse for widespread slovenly spelling, and I don't imagine for one minute that this was the reason for the research at Cambridge University.

I also agree with Auld Pop that it is good to make an effort to spell correctly and write with reasonably accurate grammar, as it gives more credibility to what you have to say, and makes your contribution look worthwhile, even if it isn't.

I do hope however that Auld Pop is referring to submissions in standard English, and does not include the submissions to this forum that are written in Campbeltownese, as this is a legitimate Scots dialect that should have as much status as Doric, Lallans, etc. It is part of our identity.

This is my first contribution to this forum, although I have been an unregistered browser for several months. I notice that on this thread, as in many others, the discussion descends into personal abuse very quickly. Is this the refuge for those who have run out of ideas to promote their argument, or am I missing the point, that this is the function of Speakers Corner? I think not. In many cases, the less valid one's argument is, the more forcibly it is expounded.

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE COMING ON HERE TELLING US WHAT...


only joking, welcome to the forum

I agree that some people watch TV programmes in order to be offended and then complain about them. This is not my situation, as I am not easily offended. I don't like football so I don't watch it. I am merely commenting that when a difference of opinion leads to a personal slanging match between the participants the subject of the thread goes out the window.

Possibly my submission is controversial, that is a different matter from trying to belittle anything. The subject of this thread is spelling and grammar, two things for which I have a passion, and this was also the subject of most of my submission.

So far as my final paragraph is concerned, slanging matches have been remarked upon by other forum members on other threads, and I have tried to make an objective comment. Maybe I am wrong, and maybe some think that this is what spices up the forum and creates interest, if so they should say so. They may be right, and I would be happy to accept that. I must admit to finding much of the "banter" highly amusing. I did ask in my submission if this was the function of Speakers Corner. If it is, then I will be happy to go along with it, and if it isn't then I have a valid point.

"Abandon hope all ye who enter here"

At least my first submission has made an impact, but I must point out that it was not directed at anyone in particular, apart from being prompted by this particular thread. It was a general comment. I wasn't aware that length of service as a forum member dictated the kind of comment one could make.