Bad Spellers...?

Question

Is anyone else bothered by the complete and total disregard for correct spelling and grammar here in Yahoo! Answers? I have trouble answering a person's question when i can't understand what is being written.

I weep for the youth of America when they can't even spell the word: WHAT. (I have seen wat too many times to count).

Is it just laziness? I'd like to think that people are not that dumb.

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

no, I know a few people on here who write like that and are very intelligent,I shorten the words sometimes because,well cause I can not that I don't know the proper spelling.This is for fun ,a way to fill the time-it's not English class,your not writing an important report or a novel,so just relax hun and go with the flow,most can spell they just choose not to.

Answer 2

Spelling is really not the most important thing on my list. I don't like when people talk like "dat and whateva" on Y answers but I don't catch every last spelling mistake. I don't think that the youth has to worry so much about spelling these days. In school teacher make you type reports that are double spaces typed on the computer. There is good ole' spell check on the computer, so I don't think youth learns from there spelling mistakes!

Answer 3

It is laziness. On the part of students and teachers alike. And really is is so much work to type out a word completely? Unfortunately, spell checkers cannot help those who do not know how to spell.

Answer 4

Sadly, sometimes its not laziness. One of my younger email friends wrote to me and it was the hardest task to decipher what she was saying. I join you in weeping. Sadder still, is the fact that there is a spell check feature. Maybe they write the way they talk and there is no spell check for bad grammar.

Answer 5

I hate it!! I mean, typo's happen, but it drives me nuts.

I blame cell phones and the advent of text messaging that has prompted the youth of america to write sentences like this: "wot r u doin wit ur lyf pplz?? k l8rz!"

Except that I probably did it wrong, because I can't do that uppercase/lowercase thing.

Oh, you just got my blood boiling. I hate that I can't even read what these kids type, and I'm a native English speaker!!

Answer 6

Oh you know the reason for that is just cuz of SMS-ing and emails and..just you know, new forms of communication..its just like new age spelling-slang. Im sure they all could spell perfectly fine if they wanted to. Hope this helps. Have a nice day. :)

Answer 7

i were a inglesh majer in kollej.

I don't let it bother me. If I let it bother me, I'd lose my mind. It might be laziness, it might be ignorance. There are a lot of things that could cause it. It's just Y/A, not the SATs. Spelling and grammar don't give you more points or anything.

Answer 8

I think and hope it is out of laziness. I agree with you the youth of America is in trouble.

Answer 9

there is a spell check button on the box that u can use but have u ever thought that maybe some ppl dont know witch word it would be when thay use it. i know i dont know how to spell very good and stuff and on spell check i dont use it becasue i dont know how to spell some words and when i use it i dont know witch spelling is right and stuff... and its answers who cares if thay dont spell perfect or anything thats jsut dumb stuff and u should still be able to know what thay are saying if u would quit being a jerk and stuff.

Answer 10

It's the way they teach English now. It's phonics. Instead of learning English that uses correct grammar, they use "sounds like".