Spelling - Evo 9 advert

[WCZ]

Noticed this: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4190151.htm

Highlights of bad spelling include:

"new tyres and new dicks and pads all round"
"honist / bad bits every car has them and i like to be honist as theres no point in me wasting your time by lying. "
"check ur insurane, bank ballance, read the whole add and look were i am on a map befor geting in touch please "

He probably has dyslexia so I'm being a bit of a cock by posting this thread but meh.

[FamilyDub]

I will proudly proclaim that a bad spelling would indeed put me off buying a 'performance' car.

[TheBMWDriver]

He many not be stupid. I struggle with spelling a lot but I have a good education and done well in life.

[djdestiny]

My brother has dyslexia, and really struggles with spelling.
He does however look after his cars.

IMO there is a big difference between a well written advert with spelling errors, than a bad one that is written by clearly someone with half a brain.
This Evo advert looks well written if you look past the spelling errors

[Harding91]

I've always wanted an Evo with new dicks.

[Sixpackpert]

It's an Evo 8...

[Dan_1981]

You have to remember that not many forums place as much emphasis on spelling, punctuation & grammar as this place does.

I'm a member over on the MLR (where i think this car is also advertised) and some of the posts there would have the nazis on this bored exploding in frustration.

[cuprabob]

I think he's pitched the advert perfectly for his target audience. very clever in my opinion.

Personally, bad spelling and grammar really switch me off

[WCZ]

"no time waters please "

[Fatman2]

LOL "main reason for sale is dew to buying a track car"

There's a theme running here.

[scarble]

Missed this beauty.

bob said:

had the tappets cemicaly cleaned when new timeing belt was fitted

Agree to some degree that poor spelling isn't an indicator of intelligence but (a) if you're so smart get a spellchecker (yes you can have it in your browser these days!) (b) I have dyslexia or something, often struggle with basic words and confuse d,p,q and b (even when typing) but make the effort to get it right.

ETA: this bit confirms him for a moron
fixed price no offers. take it or leave it as im happy to keep it
clearly not chap, else you wouldn't be selling it!

ETA: ah, he's ginger, explains it.

Edited by scarble on Wednesday 29th August 12:54

[VladD]

cuprabob said:

I think he's pitched the advert perfectly for his target audience. very clever in my opinion.

Personally, bad spelling and grammar really switch me off

Me too. He's got a computer to access the internet, so I'm sure it must have a word processor with a spell checker on it. I'm also put of by people who say that their car is the "best colour". That's subjective otherwise people would only buy one colour.

[k-ink]

I never reply to adverts with such poor spelling. I make the assumption (possibly incorrectly) that the owner is not the most caring person in the world. It only takes a minute to spell check, either automatically or manually via dictionary.com. If the seller refuses to make the effort I return the favour by not making an enquiry.

[Steve vRS]

scarble said:

ETA: this bit confirms him for a moron
fixed price no offers. take it or leave it as im happy to keep it
clearly not chap, else you wouldn't be selling it!

This kind of statement in an advert always makes me laugh.

If I ever see, "In no rush to sell." in an advert I never bother to read any further.

Steve

[tbc]

REMINDS ME OF THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXU4tSodxcg

[Captain Muppet]

FamilyDub said:

I will proudly proclaim that a bad spelling would indeed put me off buying a 'performance' car.

I knew a couple of guys who bought cars from ads with dreadful spelling, missing details and lots of block caps. Then they would sell them with correctly spelt adverts with all the information in and made money every time.

[jaik]

djdestiny said:

My brother has dyslexia, and really struggles with spelling.
He does however look after his cars.

IMO there is a big difference between a well written advert with spelling errors, than a bad one that is written by clearly someone with half a brain.
This Evo advert looks well written if you look past the spelling errors

Agreed, this advert seems like it's written by someone reasonably intelligent with dyslexia. Most with terrible spelling are clearly written by fking morons who are crap at spelling (eg. don't have dyslexia (but would probably say they do if asked)) and are the ones to avoid.

[jonny996]

he may not be able to spell well, but is doing something correct, as he is selling a car you are trying to stive towards

[DaveH23]

Dont think I would ever be put off by a badly worded or badly written advert aslong as the impression the car has been well maintained and has the service history/reciepts to back this up.

[scarebus]

Sixpackpert said:

It's an Evo 8...

Talk about irony.......