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<blockquote data-quote="hellbender" data-source="post: 1034006" data-attributes="member: 795">I have given up on the subject of spelling and grammar online. As a former English teacher and tutor (to English as a second language students), there are so many gross mistakes from people in the United States (most of whom I assume were taught how to spell here) that I have begun to question the entire education system. I know of many, many foreign people who can spell better than a lot of people who I know were born and raised in the States.&nbsp; &nbsp; To me, it is also bad enough that people feel the need to write nonsense like 'Um' all the time, what is 'Um'? Is it thinking you are correcting someone else, or trying to sound dumb? I don't need to know every little sound reverberating around a person's head at any given time. And all the 'leetspeak' that is very second generation faux hacker talk, and if anything, not very elite at all. I consider myself a latecomer to the internet (first logged on in 1994 when I returned from overseas) and people never wrote like they sniffed too much glue then. If you want to be elite, spell like you have had an education.hellbender</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hellbender, post: 1034006, member: 795"] I have given up on the subject of spelling and grammar online. As a former English teacher and tutor (to English as a second language students), there are so many gross mistakes from people in the United States (most of whom I assume were taught how to spell here) that I have begun to question the entire education system. I know of many, many foreign people who can spell better than a lot of people who I know were born and raised in the States. To me, it is also bad enough that people feel the need to write nonsense like 'Um' all the time, what is 'Um'? Is it thinking you are correcting someone else, or trying to sound dumb? I don't need to know every little sound reverberating around a person's head at any given time. And all the 'leetspeak' that is very second generation faux hacker talk, and if anything, not very elite at all. I consider myself a latecomer to the internet (first logged on in 1994 when I returned from overseas) and people never wrote like they sniffed too much glue then. If you want to be elite, spell like you have had an education. hellbender [/QUOTE]

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