Smart People?

The following paragraph demonstrates correct spelling is not paramount to good communication, if the reader can read it. Many many times my spelling has been corrected by other members. I realize correct spelling is important to some, even to the point of obsession. However, if the word is recognizable and in context, what is the big problem?

This is absurd. Thinking has nothing to do with literacy. Isn't this just from your judgement? This is the point. Is it so important when there is nothing lost in communicating ideas?
In my experience accurate spelling does not improve communication.

Yes this could be true if the mind is trained in this way. You may see a word incorrectly spelled and immediately image the correct spelling of the word. But how would someone who does not have all the correct spellings (eg, like the person who wrote it) read it? Isn't it the words themselves that ensure clarity? I understood the example I gave perfectly, did you?

Absolutely, it does take more time and effort to read and it is not as easy! In truth it only takes a little patience and a lot less judgement and frustration!

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Not that it matters or is of any importance but did you know putting a capital letter after a comma is bad grammar?Edited by pelican, : No reason given.

Were you able to read and understand the misspelled passage in the OP? If you did, do you think there was anything lost in communicating the idea it presented?

Well that is the problem, because you assumed there was no concept, you did not see one, but it is there.

I asked what was the "Problem" with incorrect spelling when you can clearly understand it. Perhaps you did not understand the concept.It really was part of a research project at Cambridge University and it seems clear evreyone can read the words, but no idea of the point it is making that supports my concept.YES! It may take a little longer to read and may take a little effort but a lot more time for those learning to spell and type in order to be heard.

Why should it bother anyone enough to make a judgement of "they don't care?" Why has my spelling been pointed out to me many times when it distracted nothing from the point and the only point made in the reply is my spelling?Maybe it gives the reader an opportunity to bitch.

I suppose it depends on one's audience.

Yes, I had a nomination but that still doesn't stop others from pointing out my spelling mistakes, making an issue out of them and ignoring the point I made in the 1st place.That is the process I am familiar with on this forum. It doesn't happen on another forum I frequent. This begged the question of 'why does it matter so much for some on this forum'?Being corrected has never offended me. I don't have an inferiority complex about my abilities. I was trying to show how focus on insignificant details distracts from the content. Also that the focus on correctness closes the mind. Maybe if you re-read the misplet OP without judgement, it would mean something else entirely.

Did you have a problem reading the mispelled passage in the OP?I only read this the other day myself and I was amused to find how easily I did read it. I thought the concept offered by this research was true.

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Your spelling and grammar seems fine. Do you have a content checker? It checks to see if you are on topic or not. E.G...the following are off topic........ And this........ Very Naughty !!!