Smart People?

My bold.Who has been ignored? Edited by Larni, : Correct incorrect spellink

My bold.Who has been ignored?

Or not understood and subsequently ignored because of crappy spelling and grammer.

Ouch and touche.As I have made a mistake in spelling I now throw my lot in with you: is is acceptable to be careless with spelling and grammar.Back to reality. Repeated spelling and grammar mistakes correlate in our heads with a lack of credibility. This is the same effect as Hill Billy correlating in his head long words with arrogance.If you want a technical reason look up the fundemental attribution error.It ain't fair or right but that's how our brains are wired to work: some say by a god. Go figure what he was thinking.Edited by Larni, : Inevitable spelling mistakes.

Aargh!Hoist by my own petard!I guess I'm not the poster boy for this arguement, eh? The fundamental attribution error has nothing to do with fundamentalism: it is social psychology.

A good question to ask is 'why have our brains evolved to make the fundamental attribution error?'

The thing is our brains evolved to work this way because it is a short cut. A short cut that is prone to error but as any body who knows anything about evolution will tell you it is good enough.That is to say it is correct more often than it is not. Most of the time some one with the spelling and grammatical capacity of a cat's arse is not going to hold much in the way of intellectual credability.Note that this is not always the case but it is in such frequency that it is a logical short cut to assume such.It sucks when it is assumed about oneself but them's the breaks.It's not fair to make assumptions but we do 'cause it's often quicker and (more times than not) correct.

If someone writes like a child they most likely are.Show me a post that has more than 2 spelling and 2 grammatical errors per line that makes a decent argument and I will concede the point.Edited by Larni, : Spelling mistakes, obviously.

How have I not answered your question? I think to tar everyone on this site (including yourself) as thinking of themselves as an intellectual is erroneous.I am judgmental; but then who is not? That's my point. People will judge people on how and what they write because how and what we write is often an indicator of the qualities of the individual. Not always, but enough to make it a valid short cut for assessing other people quickly.

No. That's not what I mean.People do make snap judgments because normally the snap judgments are accurate enough for every day use. Imagine going to an interview dressed down, not weary a suite? Would you expect to get the job?However, I do concede the point that you can splel in scuh a wya thta slil aollws teh wrosd ot eb raed.But I ask you, would you do it for CV?What you you expect the reader to think? That's the point.

But would you not find it seaser to undertsnad something when the wrighter has spent some tuime trying to get his/her spelling just right?If i was to writhe this way all the time how long woulf it take for you to get pissed off with having to decipher what I was actually try to say?If I did tnot hale the thime to check what I rithe this is how it would look.I'm sure you can reed this but do you think it is fari for me to expect that you should?

So you would not accept the burden of translation if it was not deliberate?You and me, against the world, eh?

Not so: that is how it would look if I did not go back and correct it.

I'm just a bad typer and appalling speller.