Why is it that many people don't spell check their answers and questions?

Question

I don't know what bother's me more, people's poor spelling or their seemingly inability to hit that blue spell check icon.

I don't think I'm being picky, as people are when they point out "bother's" in my question. Some things can't be checked easily. However some people's spelling makes me wonder how they got out of the second grade. If I spelled that poorly, I'd spell-check often.

Answer 1

Pure laziness I think.

Answer 2

AAAk, I know exactly what you mean!! I am a perfect grammar/spelling freak. People are just in such a big hurry to do nothing that they don't care about correctness. YA should have a grammar check button too. When you say "bother's" you are saying the possessive of bother, which is not what you mean. You are too apostrophe happy.

Answer 3

Sometimes they are in such a rush to be the first to deliver wisdom on a question that they don't stop for checking. Other time those misspelled answers come from people who don't recognize misspellings and think that spell check can't fix anything that they did.

Answer 4

Perhaps you are lucky and only use it when there are few people using it. I frequently fing it either hangs or gives a message saying there is a problem with it. So simple answer is that the service is not capable of supporting the use being made of it.

I am sure that as well as that, many people see the change offered and accept it when it is totally the wrong word!

Answer 5

Please check your own in a question like this. "Bothers" does not get an apostrophe, it is the verb.

Part of it is laziness, part of it is that some incorrectly-spelled words look like other, correctly-spelled words. And another part is bad grammar (see above).

Answer 6

You need prozac. Did I spell that correctly?