"teh"

To the point of the thread: when we first started teaching larger numbers of foreign students in my daytime job, some of my colleagues became as irritated with their struggles with punctuation as engaged with their understanding of difficult technical subjects. I was too, I admit. Then I reconsidered this position and now I encourage them to improve their English but do not make it a precondition. I don't say this is the only defensible approach but it is the one I consider more helpful in the real world. I take the same view about accents: would anybody think it is right to jeer at someone whose regional accent means you have to work a bit harder to understand them?

INTENTIONALLY SCREWING OVER HER ENGLISH

The fact is,if it is about good forum etiquette we need to look at both sides of that sword.
Instead of someone getting on a soap box to draw attention to someones error,they should be sending a private message..Otherwise it is an attempt to make themselves look a little smarter to everyone else around them at that other persons expense..
It is not an effort to help them notice a mistake in a positive way.

The English language has no "bouncers".

Well, for the tiny numbers of people who could possibly care one way or another, Jig and I are partners in SL. That is stated openly (and permanently, I hope) on both of our profiles. She is an excellent partner: a good designer, an excellent eye for SL art, very well read, mostly calm and thoughtful, and a tendency to be hasty in typing, which I consider to be a pretty good deal. I would say that wouldn't I? Well, maybe. Some people speak well of their partners, and I've noticed that others speak badly. It takes all sorts.

No, I am not Jig's alt. What an odd thing to say 'I wont comment on whether...' - thereby commenting. So I won't comment on whether that's an intellectually impoverished sort of debating trick.

I don't know whether anybody respects my opinion or not, nor do I expect any respect beyond what the opinions deserve on their own merit: I expect some people will agree with me and some will disagree with me and apparently one will go wild, though I really don't know why.

To the point of the thread: when we first started teaching larger numbers of foreign students in my daytime job, some of my colleagues became as irritated with their struggles with punctuation as engaged with their understanding of difficult technical subjects. I was too, I admit. Then I reconsidered this position and now I encourage them to improve their English but do not make it a precondition. I don't say this is the only defensible approach but it is the one I consider more helpful in the real world. I take the same view about accents: would anybody think it is right to jeer at someone whose regional accent means you have to work a bit harder to understand them?

How nice! I quoted the whole post because I liked the whole post, not because I don't know how to cut and paste. I like Jig and think her posts are interesting. .... I think they are missing out on a great human being because of that, and that is their loss. Anyway, kudos for your nice post about your partner. That was a really nice thing for you to do.

I disagree with this.

As you and others are saying, it doesn't take a Harvard education to be here. All it takes is a high school education to spot a spelling or grammar error. Pointing out an error doesn't make you smarter or more educated - and the people who point out errors know that. So they're certainly not doing it to impress others. Accusing them of doing that is just an ad hominem attack.

The most common reason people correct errors, from what I can see, is that high error rates makes it more difficult for them to read. They'll also do so when they believe that the writer isn't even trying, or if the writer is using an argot that may be inappropriate. They may do so in public because the nature of the post makes it appropriate, or because they're unfamiliar with private messages, or don't remember that private messages exsit, or precisely because they're trying to make the point to everyone and not pick on an individual. It isn't about showing off; it's about improving the quality of the forums.

I'm not trying to excuse rudeness or bullying. But polite corrections should be taken as just that, an attempt to help, without being offended or ascribing other motives.

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BTW, I think a visit to her home/gallery is in order to get a different perspective of what she is about. Their collection of SL art is massive and makes you feel like you've walked into any famous modern art museum of a large city. She and Hal have a very keen eye. If you are an art lover, I think you'll be surprised and might come away with a different opinion than you currently have of her. Or not, who can say. But I choose to ignore the inaccurate spelling in light of the other interesting things I've discovered about her.

"And Chipley is not me - I have never met another Chippewa in sl)"

Lol! Either have I! Chippewas for teh win!

So it's Polite to necro someones post from a thread you had no part in that was dead more than a week ago to correct them?
This thread was drama..So much so that Threads were being spawned all over this section of the forums..
You kind of had to be there..every situation is different..
I'm not going to get into the wrongs and rights with you on a subject that had to have another thread to calm down the forum..

Why?
Seriously, explain it to me like I'm a three year old.
Along with hawt, bewts, smexy, kitteh, and all that other jive.
It makes me apoplectic.
Makes me mute people.
Makes me TP out before I violate several TOS clauses.

Yeah I'm a gnarly goat dude so of course I don't get it.

'Splain, Lucy....

for me 'teh' is a dyslexic moment i suffer from often, i do try to read over everything i type before hitting enter, but some things slip by ass backwards. i typed a whole word in backwards last night, looked down before hitting enter and it took a second before my mind could comprehend what my fingers had typed : P
lizzie

Fair enough, Iv'e misstyped it as "teh" myself on occassion, but you have to wonder about someone who can spell most other words just fine but seems completely incapable of spelling "the" correctly at all. It's just a troll attention getter swiped from last century and most are falling for it hook, line & sinker.

Why?
Seriously, explain it to me like I'm a three year old.
Along with hawt, bewts, smexy, kitteh, and all that other jive.
It makes me apoplectic.
Makes me mute people.
Makes me TP out before I violate several TOS clauses.

Yeah I'm a gnarly goat dude so of course I don't get it.

'Splain, Lucy....

Or it could be:

1) An artifact of the location of the 't' and 'h' keys;
2) That many type using their two index fingers;
3) Which MAY be the fastest two fingers we have;
4) And the two characters will thus be typed closest together in time;
5) And are therefore more likely to be hit in an order other than intended;
6) And are more often typed than many other sequences due to the high frequency of occurrence of 'the' in English;
7) And some keyboards may have faulty n-key rollover microprocessor algorithms (as did the Northgate Omnikey AND Ultrakey);

Or not.