Poor spelling on ebay

[daytona365]

Who's noticed the atrocious spelling & grammar, exhibited by many sellers on E bay ? Sometimes advertising cars north of 50k and coming from exotic places like the better parts of Surrey and Buckinghamshire etc. So disappointing and hardly a good basis for a successful sale ? Please don't take me to task, as I'm but a penniless Urban Oik from a state comprehensive. I just expect more from my middle class adverts, that's all !!

[FilH]

They are either like me, crap at spelling and gramer, tho I do run big adds of text through a spell checker?

Or

Their 1st laungage ain't english, and they done much better than i would, trying to type and add in another laungage



Tho this one, im not sure whats going on, maybe some serious weed smoking whilst on ebay?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-FORD-SIERRA-COSWORT...

Edited by FilH on Wednesday 29th April 22:31

[daytona365]

What's a laungage, is it some kind of sausage ?

[FilH]

close enough

[daytona365]

FilH said:

They are either like me, crap at spelling and gramer, tho I do run big adds of text through a spell checker?

Or

Their 1st laungage ain't english, and they done much better than i would, trying to type and add in another laungage



Tho this one, im not sure whats going on, maybe some serious weed smoking whilst on ebay?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-FORD-SIERRA-COSWORT...

Edited by FilH on Wednesday 29th April 22:31

.........Exactly what I'm on about, though to be fair he was only a northern git !

[Davie_GLA]

There is a site dedicated to this.

www.fatfingers.co.uk

[daytona365]

Well, who would have fought thet ?...Thanks.

[73mark]

Please rember.

Tea came out my nose reading that.

It's had a lot done to it or as he writes it's add a lot done.


Great stuff.

[anonymous-user]

FilH said:

They are either like me, crap at spelling and gramer, tho I do run big adds of text through a spell checker?

Or

Their 1st laungage ain't english, and they done much better than i would, trying to type and add in another laungage



Tho this one, im not sure whats going on, maybe some serious weed smoking whilst on ebay?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1989-FORD-SIERRA-COSWORT...

Edited by FilH on Wednesday 29th April 22:31

I'd like to think that person never went to school to spell like DAT.

[daytona365]

Apparently he's a senior project engineer ?..........I don't know the answer to that iver.

[soad]

Poor fker can't speel - recamened is a winner! Or might be dyslexic?

[daytona365]

'Please don't take me to task, as I'm but a penniless Urban Oik from a state comprehensive'.

[General Price]

Ebay ad said:

advertised elsa where

Leave him alone,he's Italian.

[bennyboysvuk]

O/T, but one of the adverts at the bottom of the Sierra Cosworth page was this cool piece of rallying kit:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Escort-Mk2-RS2000-rally-...

[fireturk]

don't think I'd want an engine where the valves were COATED in sodium!!

[DonkeyApple]

daytona365 said:

Who's noticed the atrocious spelling & grammar, exhibited by many sellers on E bay ? Sometimes advertising cars north of 50k and coming from exotic places like the better parts of Surrey and Buckinghamshire etc. So disappointing and hardly a good basis for a successful sale ? Please don't take me to task, as I'm but a penniless Urban Oik from a state comprehensive. I just expect more from my middle class adverts, that's all !!

Sloppy work. Simple as that.

There have always been bad spellers and good spellers and from all walks of life. Bad spelling is nothing knew.

What is knew is that no one checks their work anymore. Partly because in work education by senior staff is almost non existent so younger staff members simply aren't taught these rudimentary work skills any more and partly because we have a 'that'll do' attitude more than ever before.

I am a terrible speller but was given a somewhat expensive education. My posts on PH are regularly poor English. Sometimes because the keypad on the phone just doesn't suite man digits and sometimes because I reverse letters etc. But the real reason is that I never check my writing before submitting it. In the work environment I double check everything and nothing will have either spelling or grammatical errors and this latter aspect has become even easier with technology.

So in my view it is much more down to more people not giving an arse about checking their or others' work than a recent growth in semi literates such as myself.

Oh, and I suppose we can also look at the fact that the younger generations do not operate three separate forms of English any more (domestic spoken, written and professional spoken) but often just operate with one basic form of 'street' English instead?

[Stevie P]

DonkeyApple said:

Bad spelling is nothing knew.

What is knew

Seriously!!!

[DonkeyApple]

Stevie P said:

DonkeyApple said:

Bad spelling is nothing knew.

What is knew

Seriously!!!

There you go. Perfect example of what I was saying. I have no idea whether I wrote that or my phone did etc. But the key is that I don't check what I write on PH as I don't seem it a credible use of my time.

[krisdelta]

Autocorrect or indeed dyslexia can have a real impact on spelling. I find it more offensive when it's in a stupid font in yellow - that rings more alarm bells than a mis-spelt word

[Evoluzione]

DonkeyApple said:

Stevie P said:

DonkeyApple said:

Bad spelling is nothing knew.

What is knew

Seriously!!!

There you go. Perfect example of what I was saying. I have no idea whether I wrote that or my phone did etc. But the key is that I don't check what I write on PH as I don't seem it a credible use of my time.

So that's 18,533 posts of pure rubbish then? That's a lot of wasted time.