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Some may say this is hackneyed and done to death, but agreed. Very much agreed. Now I’m just waiting to see how many miniscule mistakes my fine fellow commenters mine from it.
you knoes that the person spellt ‘Graph Jam’ wrong?
whut idiots.
It’s very much the correct spelling. Just to the right of the picture it says “About GraphJam.. How it started”. Note GraphJam is one word. Granted, the submitter omitted the capital J, but camelcase is more of a suggestion than an actual rule.
Thank you, Bob, for that interesting lecturzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………………
Honestly, why do people have to ruin the fun?! So people make a few mistakes – are your lives actually THAT empty that you have to make a graph about grammar and spelling, on a site made for pure laughs?!
ironic, no?
Oh noes, Graph Jam iz part of ur kittehs. I CAN HAS NOMS NAO!
This sounds more like I can has cheezeburgerz.
anyone seen the cheezeburgerz blogs? They’re INSANE!
Freaking YES!!!
Ignorant people make me want to move to an uninhabited island to live out the rest of my years.
ignorance, fortunately, is something that can be overcome.
true, but you can’t fix stupid.
word
Please, please capitalise your sentences! Especially if you intend to sound intelligent.
Lack of capitalisation hurts me. Are you too stupid to press the “Shift” key?
I’ll help you out, this one time…It is on the left, adjacent to the “Z” key, on a standard 102-key QWERTY keyboard. I don’t know its location for Dvorak, or other specialised keyboards.
Next time, regardless of where your “Shift” key is located, please use it.
That last note applies to all.
Please capitalise.
if lack of capitalization hurts you, this might not be the site for you.
I realise this, but in honesty, the lack of capitalisation doesn’t bother me.
When coupled with a moron who is trying to sound intelligent, it does.
However, for instance, in the case of your post, I find not bothersome in the least.
Correction for above: the last sentence should read “…I find it not bothersome in the least.”
Forgot the it, sorry.
That’s quite alright. Now that you’ve apologized I can move on with my life.
oh, poppy, you _are_ bad!
wellunfortunatelyformemyshiftandspacebardonotwork.srydude.
I have a boat – want to borrow it?
Is the funneh… in the bedroom?
No funneh…
I’ll bet the funneh… is in the guest room.
Funneh?
Huh… no funneh again!
The funneh is hiding inside your big, fat, sorry ass
That’s not a funneh, that’s a funnel.
Thank you Rob that was amazing i couldn’t stop laughing.
Yeah, well, your mom.
I don’t have one.
You lose.
I don’t think “fun” is in these people’s dictionary, Dan! Oh noez!
I’m allways used the ditscionery win I wurried weather the word is corect are not; but my neffew tooked it at colledge for to use in his litteritour corse.
Oh I see what you did there, you clever kid, you!
I will laugh my ass off if this contains a spelling error.
But I’m mostly in agreement. Although, I think the orange section should be a hell of a lot larger.
Dear God, yes. Orange should dominate.
Do you mean dominant?
Dominate is a verb, whereas dominant is an adjective. You could say that the “orange should be the dominant section”. Technically ‘dominate’ doesn’t really make sense, because the orange can’t exactly exercise ‘control over’ the other sections of the graph.
Google for the save
“Dominant” is an adjective. “Dominate” is a verb. Orange (in the context of “the orange segment”) is the noun, should is an auxiliary verb that does not stand on its own, and dominate is the full verb of the sentence. To replace the full verb with an adjective would yield an incomplete sentence. It would be like saying, “Orange should pretty.”
win?
Yup, that looks like a win to me.
Indeed. My bad! I somehow saw and imaginary “be” between “should” and “dominate”… Time to get my eyes checked.
In the description for the green area, there’s no period at the end of the sentence. Not really a spelling error, but still a mistake..
It should be spelled GraphJam.
It should be spelled shut up.
Actually, their own site has it as Graph Jam.
Or GraphJam, depending on where you read; clearly, the person submitting this graph cannot be blamed for any confusion about an ill-defined name.
It really is okay to be proud of being a spelling/grammar nazi.
No. However, it is apparently an elite status for some to assign value to education and being able to convey an idea in writing/text properly.
Comment Win! That was funny.
Marry me and have my children.
One day there will be a grammer Nuremberg trials for all the grammer nazis
^into the oven!
I’m sure if there is they’ll spell “grammar” correctly at the hearing.
WIN.
To the hanging with you!
how do you fit 100 jews in a car
2 in the front 2 in the back and 96 in the ashtray
is it wrong that i so badly wanted this to contain a spelling/grammar error?
No, it’s not, Sarah. That’s human nature. But other than the “Graphjam/GraphJam” point, this one is quite funny indeed. Okay, it’s not really spelling, but nor does the S in “High School” need to be capitalized, either.
I think the purple section needs to be a hell of a lot bigger. Teenagers think it’s actually OKAY to use this on school papers! stfu indeed.
t33nag3rz tlk liek tihs on pprs? srsly?
all the time
The worst is getting emails from students in college that use that crap. I’ve been a TA for two years, and I’ve actually gotten emails resembling, “…is it ok with u if i’m a little late 4 class?”
It’s so annoying!
I see where you’re coming from, but at the same time, I want to see the reply to that text message be: “stfu nub if u l8 u fubar”
HAHAHAHA. OH MAN. That would be so amazing.
I think there is a period missing after “submitted”. While not technically a spelling error, it may be worth mentioning, as the rest of the items are punctuated.
Kudos on the rest of it.
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I noticed that, too. Though it may not be spelling, it is a grammatical error.
Aside from the fact that we have an exclamation point followed by an asterisk followed by a period. Also, the end of sentence punctuation is inconsistent. Four of the five have periods at the end; the first does not. I don’t care which it is, just pick one and stick with it!
This message brought to you by annoyed literate people everywhere. Please, check your punctuation!
“I’m better than you because I can spell better than you”
Exactly.
Sorry, but I kinda gotta disagree wit you on dis here one.
I guess there are people who want to feel better about themselves by sneering at others, but they’re everywhere – not just in Spelling World. Some really smart people are horrible spellers. I was married to someone who was nearly illiterate but also one of the most capable, intelligent persons I’ve ever known. Unfortunately, the inability to spell correctly made written communication very difficult.
Capable and intelligent doesn’t look good on a resume (I’m not putting the accent mark in) if it’s accompanied by your Associate’s Degree from Clown College (unless you’re applying to be a clown). Spelling and grammar are how we carry ourselves in an increasingly impersonal world of computers and data streams.
Should’ve paid attention in the first few grades then.
I never sneer at people. In fact I’m a native Texan who loves using contractions and ending words in “in’” causing people to ridicule my spelling and speaking…..then I pull out the big words and we have a fun smackdown.
I do however find that a person so be literate in their own language when given the opportunity. There are millions of children who would murder to have the same privileges while some just throw away the chance.
My husband’s dyslexic. He can’t spell little words correctly all the time, but he usually gets big words right. He is completely capable of anything he puts his mind to and is very intelligent. And to Th-Rob, no, he is not a clown, but you are a jerk.
Some people do not care, the English language has got to be one of the worlds most screwed up due to the hodgepodge of sources…
So being a Grammar Nazi is about like trying to ‘purify’ the water from a Johnny on the Spot… no matter how much you filter, it still…
Anyway, I do agree that some people should drop the horrid attempts at spelling, but if someone is trying to do it right… shouldn’t we support the attempt instead of assaulting them for the mistake.
(This message constantly retyped due to Dyslexia, Hopefully I got all the mistakes.)
Support them for using their free education? I don’t go up to people on the street, give them the thumbs up and say, “Good job for wearing clothes today!”
Ioana, I agree that English is still definable. I would just say that it’s still so freakin’ inconsistent. ‘I’ before ‘e’ rule? Broken.
“i” before “e” except after “c”
What’s so hard about that?
The dozens of words to which it doesn’t apply, for a start.
Foreign, weight, height, eight for that matter…
and english
“english”?!? how does that break to ‘i’ before ‘e’ rule? surely you don’t think that rule means “in the entire word” instead of simply “when paired”. (btw, the whole rule is: “‘i’ before ‘e’ except after c, and when sounded as ‘a’ as in ‘neighbor’ and ‘weigh’”. that doesn’t cover all exceptions, but several more.)
Oh, cool. Yeah, I forgot the ending to the rhyme.
I have to wonder how many times the submitter re-read this before submitting it. I, personally, would have been quite nervous that I’d overlook a spelling error!
Petty faux-punctuation errors aside, bravo!
We now return you to you’re normle Programing,
I get the feeling that the spelling and grammatical errors in that last sentence of yours were deliberate – but I figured that I should point them out anyway because for the reasons which many have already pointed out; it’s really irritating.
“We now return you to your normal programming.”
You mean nobody has mentioned the extra space between “unnoticed” and “and” yet?
I think that is the “honest and unnoticed typo” the section is talking about.
Oh this is great!
Where is the non-native English speakers slice?
Actually, there’s a lot of sympathy for a non-native speaker’s mistakes.
It’s the natives, and their consistent slaughterings that are making the literates vomit.
Speaking from experience as a non-native english speaker, the grammer freaks don’t really ask you before they lash out. It’s a pure “I’m better than you” thing to correct other people’s grammer.
I disagree. I just thought you might be interested in knowing the correct spelling, since you write English well.
Sounds like reverse racism to me.
Racism isn’t exclusive to anyone; you hate someone for their looks/origins, you’re a racist.
Er… Prejudiced, or Discriminatory… more fitting. Racism is Prejudice based upon Racial Stereotyping. Prejudice is bad, discrimination is a bit more acceptable… but still negative.
I love how the submitter’s group is larger than everyone else’s combined.
I actually analzyed this for any spelling/grammatical errors.
*analyzed
“D’oh!”
English language variants – where I come from we would spell it “analysed”.
The first post with “analzyed” made me laugh out loud. (I understand why you corrected your original post, but it was still a cute mistake.
)
hahaha omg i just realized what i typed
anal zyed~
Probably needs a slice for “automatically took the first spell check option” Had a friend once send an email to his boss that he had given a cute underling a “genital reminder” when he intended gentle…
…..I’ll be the one to say it.
lol, u seyd jenitayliah.
XD
Keehee.
I make a few punctuation errors, the occasional ‘too’ and ‘to’ slip up, and an unnoticed spelling mistake but for the most part I like to think I have good grammar skills.
‘To’ and ‘too’ are way too easy to slip up on, especially if your finger accidentally hits that ‘o’ a few too many times…
I can only imagine the 40-50 minutes that the maker of this spent going over and over every single line again and again with a dictionary in hand making damn sure there were no errors anywhere. Bit sad really..
It’s more than a “bit” sad when you consider that there are at least five errors in it, six if you count the missing Oxford comma as an error. (a.k.a. Harvard comma or serial comma.)
that slice with the ppl dat tink in it has a lot of errors
Indeed LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE
Love this graph
it’s curious how much emphasis there is on spelling, since it correlates to nothing: not to intelligence, not to education, not even to native/non-native speakers. it’s almost at the level of a parlor trick or the ability to do a rubik’s cube. not only does english have a remarkably fluid history of spellings, but been demonstrated that readers don’t need words to be spelled correctly in order to identify them. seems like this would be less of a flashpoint than it is.
Amazingly, your comment was relatively error-free, despite containing all the excuses of a person who doesn’t know how to spell and doesn’t wish to learn. What gives?
“what gives” is my experience with lots of different people who have displayed excellent intelligence, who were amazingly well-read, and of the first rank when it came to clarify of thought. i, on the other hand, simply have excellent natural spelling and grammar skills.
*clarity (typing skills great, but still prone to error)
“excellent natural spelling and grammar skills”…beside the lack of capitalization of the first word of each sentence…
that’s a choice v. a mistake. i like what amounts to the opposite of the ALL-CAPS-SHOUTING school of posting. and your comment is a good example of either deliberate obtuseness (or did you really think i didn’t know i wasn’t using any capitals? you also seem to have missed the fact that _nothing_ is capitalized, not just the first letter of each sentence) or a desperate search for a reason to continue criticizing someone once you’ve started down that path.
I didn’t notice nothing else is capitalized either because, in your comment, there wasn’t anything else that should have been capitalized beside the first letter of each sentence.
“rubik’s” should have been capitalized as it is a proper name; probably “cube” should also have been capitalized along with it.
oh, yeah, also the word “english”.
That was my bad; I was only looking at your second comment, in which you stated you “simply have excellent natural spelling and grammar skills.” I did not pay attention to the comment that you originally posted. You are correct.
spoken like a gentleman!
not to mention saying ‘i’ instead of ‘I’, but i do this too sometimes, so i don’t care.
But if it makes you feel any better, I had to look up how to spell “sentence”. I’ll admit I don’t have the best grammar and spelling. I do make an effort though, which I guess stands for something…
why would your “having” to look up a word make me “feel any better”? i’ve already stated my position on the subject of spelling, so you wouldn’t have been receiving any heat from this quarter even if you _had_ misspelled it.
Thank you so much for this comment!
needed to be said, in the face of the tsunami of self-righteousness this chart has engendered. personally, i find incorrect grammar and punctuation more grating than spelling, since they are, to my mind, much more pertinent to effective communication. the human brain is remarkably adaptable when it comes to identifying words, but misplaced commas and convoluted sentences can stymie even the most sophisticated reader.
precisely my thoughts
I think that some simple mistakes are fine, and should not be heckled.
If some one says “anciant” when it is spelled ancient, I don’t think some idiot with just as bad spelling should go and say “YOU ARE SO STUPID IT IS ANCIENT YOU IDIOT!!!!11!”
AND there may be some spelling errors in this post so deal with it.
Hehe…Literacy for the win.
I love you all. It used to be so lonely out here in the land of Winces at Grammar/Spelling/Punctuation Errors.
Shouldn’t “land” be capitalized since you’re using it as a proper noun here? Either that or the rest of the sentence should be lowercase…
Just sayin’ since we’re all nitpicking a-holes here, apparently.
You may be right, but I’m not sure that it is a proper noun in this usage. Need “land” be part of the name? If so, then I’ll concur.
If you are going to be picky, you should have put a comma between annoyed and literate.
Huzzah! I wasn’t the only one who noticed that! So, why have all the other Grammar Nazis ignored this wee post of yours?
As much as I agree with this graph, it’s a repeat. As in, I’ve seen this _exact same graph_ on this website, maybe 20 pages back. Are they starting to repeat the graphs? I’ve seen a lot of graphs recently, that I can’t help but think I’ve seen them posted here before…
Yes, I do believe they are repeating. Very annoying.
Maybe you saw them at the voting page?
most of the time i dont use proper grammar on the internet bcuz, well, its shorter! but that doesnt mean im stupid or anything. u dont know everyone on the internet,so how can u judge someones if u have never met them? not by an comment on the internet, i hope. who knows, the person u just told to stfu mite be smarter than u, but decided not to take the time to rite out full words. u could understand them, couldnt u? sheesh. of course, improper grammar in school is not going to get u very far, so save it 4 the computer!
I think the use of the words “mite” and “rite” perfectly show how well educated you are. I’m glad you saved your time with it, now try to use this time to read a book!!!! No offence to you in particular btw
how is a reply to an individual post, filled with “you” and “your” NOT an offence to that poster? “No offence to you” is what–sort of like “no tagbacks”?
Yeah, I’m thinking so.
If you are going to use the shorthand excuse… learn a real shorthand format out there. There have to be several… though I would imagine they are dying artforms.
The problem with they way you are typing now is simple; every person who tries to type correctly immediately assumes you are either too lazy to type properly, too rude to type correctly, or just a child who can’t type correctly.
If you are cool with that, roll with it.
Me personally, I enjoy a really well typed comment.
FYI – Your entire message could have been summed up as “D00d, shorthand FTW.” Thus, you actually wasted time and still looked bad.
AMEN!
Wow!!!! And I thought I was the only one. Even my english isn’t always correct because I’m from The Netherlands, but still…
The person who made this graph belongs in the red slice.
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GRAPH!
You forgot the “Perceived misspellings due to words being spelled differently depending on the country.” Like program/programme.
I have to agree completely with all but ONE part of the graph. The purple part. This site would not be here if not for the existence of Lolspeak! Respect it, or (to use a moment of lolgrammar) get off my internets!
Otherwise it’s very very true, yes. I’ve noticed that a LOT around here.
Lolspeak should be the only permissable spelling ‘mistake’. Its basic English people!
Did anyone else notice on the first in the list of errors listed, hah, that there isn’t a period at the end of the sentence, where there is in all that follow it? I can’t help but wonder if it’s there on purpose.
Miz-spelerz of da world Un tie
People who live in glass houses shouldn\’t throw stones!
orly? u want me 2 chek mi spellin? i give 0% sh!t
Could all you guys go post in the lolcats section? See if you can sort that mess out.
Thanks.
I really agree. I think that the purple should be a lot larger, though. I hate that.
Unless you’re speaking of LOLcats. Only LOLcats don’t have numbers.
I disagree with the graph a bit. I think most spelling mistakes are typos followed by honest mistakes. We’re all human. Lighten up.
I feel that in certain circumstances, ’shorthand’ is fine. A quick text message would be a good example. However, when you are posting a comment on an Internet site, composing an email message, or typing a paper, you have plenty of time to make sure you’re using proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. I find it rude and thoughtless and a show of disrespect to those that might read your message to have it riddled with errors, misspellings, and intentional ‘1337′ or ‘lolspeak’ shorthand.
If you want to be taken seriously, you must take your audience seriously as well, treat them with respect, and show them that they are worth your time by taking that time to proofread your communications. An honest mistake here and there is fine, so long as the effort to be correct and respectful is made.
lolspeak is awl abowt tlkin liek dis…da creaters of dis websyte yoos bad spellings
The original LOLcats didn’t type in such a ridiculous and convoluted manner. The few misspellings are what made them so funny. Now it’s much more difficult to even read the captions, resulting in a loss of funny.
And I think much of the problem with improper spelling could be solved with Firefox. It comes with spell check! Not that hard to use, people. . .
I think much of the problem would be solved by you pulling your head out of your dumb, fat ass. Not everyone is as needlessly anal about grammar, spelling, etc. as you are. If you can’t handle it, as it has already been pointed out, you are in entirely the wrong area.
hmmm… personal insults as persuasional tactics. fresh, new, even challenging as a concept, but maybe we can go that way. let’s see what we can think up in response…
fwiw, i agree that a light hand with lolspeak is funnier. i think it gives the caption a more authentic feel.
Although clever, not all that funny to me.
“have” is a verb.
However, an object for the verb would be nice…
Unfortunately, that’s the verb for the subordinate clause. A verb for the principal one would’ve been nice and indeed, an object to go with it would be even nicer
Thank you, loversknot, for attempting to bring some literacy to the internet. I fear it will not be taken well, though.
Tacos
Mmmm… tacos. LadyKittehs’ boyfriend prefers hotdogs though
Okay, let me get this straight. This is Graph Jam from……. what? I can has cheezburger perhaps? And what do you do on i can has cheezburger? U spel things like dis adn use im innproper gramerr. Not saying, though, that things arent over done, because many things are, but a little bit now and then is okay. I dont really like it on other websites, but seriously, who doesn’t here? You need to let things pass you, or maybe keep things to yourself. After all, if you want to criticize, everyone else can too. Like….. you spelled Graph Jam wrong. No one would have cared if you hadn’t been so picky about what everyone else does. Sometimes keeping your own business is the better option then making an LOL to criticize people who cant spell or are just having fun with words, and having a whole argument follow in the commentary. And, (i dont want an argument, its just a question) what people think there smarter than everyone else? Its the people who think there swearing makes it so much better. There wrong too. So why don’t you think of a better topic for LOL’s besides criticizing? Seriously, its all I ask.
~~”Its the people who think there swearing makes it so much better. There wrong too.”~~
I’m much better than you simply because I know when to use they’re, there and their in a sentence. Also because I’m Canadian and oh so good looking.
Comment made of win.
i’ve heard that about you northerners (“so good looking”) and give it credit because of paul gross.
hell Mother F**king yes. this pie chart is by far the best ever. praise the lord some one finally gets it.
Grammar Nazi’s should go to heck! Yeah sure good grammar is nice but don’t be a Nazi!
“Grammar Nazis” are not actual Nazis. It is more of a simile, really. They might be quite liberal in their political leaning.
Although your first apostrophe does make me wish to “cleanse” you.
definAtely
Why would any grammar snob get within link range of lolcats and lolspeak, let alone complain about grammar where lolspeak is acceptable?
Oh, wait…attention.
Happy now?
I might be wrong, but I’ve seen the sentence “This message brought to you by annoyed literate people everywhere. Please, check your punctuation!” on the picture, and in some posts too.
Isn’t that sentence missing a verb? Shouldn’t it be something like “This message WAS brought to you by …”?
Or should it be “…has been…”? As in: “The issue of proper spelling, grammar and punctuation in web forums is now a ‘has been’!”
the elision of “understood” words (especially forms of the verb “to be”) is acceptable usage.
My boss cannot properly place a comma to save her life. In her event proposals for clients, she’ll say things like, “…centerpieces will be in round, vases” or “tables will have elegant, linens paired with silver, chairs.” SO annoying.
I saw at the Disney Store once packaging for a Pixar’s Cars product that actually said “Lightening McQueen” on it. Disney fail…can’t even spell their own characters’ names correctly…
Disney is not who packaged that product. Don’t you know? Everyone outsources overseas these days. It’s cheaper, and they don’t have to be as picky about who their employees are because there are less regulations.
reading this thread engenders the curious question: what do most of you think is the process by which dictionaries (esp. with regard to their authority on spelling) are formed?
clarification: i’m speaking here specifically of dictionaries of the english language.
OMIGOD! i subscribe to delanceyplace.com’s daily excerpt from interesting literature/writings, and today’s is so pertinent to this discussion (and so amusing for its quaintness of usage and spelling) that i just _had_ to post it.
i apologize in advance for its length: i hope i’m not breaking any actual rules; i’m certain that i’m massively irritating some readers.
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“The discord that we now call the Reformation had immediate consequences for English, in the form of new translations of the Bible [from Latin and Greek] into the vernacular. By 1611, when the King James Bible appeared, over fifty different Protestant or Catholic translations had been made. There were heated arguments over the linguistic choices made by the translators. Charges of heresy could be leveled at a translation depending on whether it used congregation or church, repentance or penance, charity or love.
“One of the issues which exercised the minds of the early Bible translators was: would the English language be able to cope? For a start, were there enough words available to express everything that was said in the Latin and Greek originals? In the early decades of the sixteenth century, the general opinion was that there weren’t. … If the problem was obvious, so was the solution, … all writers had to do was borrow … [and] the sixteenth century saw an extraordinary influx of new words from Latin and Greek, especially the former: anonymous, appropriate, commemorate, emancipate, relevant, susceptible. …
“The translator George Pettie affirmed their importance by stating ‘if they should be all counted inkpot terms, I know not how we should speake any thing without blacking our mouthes with inke.’ Inkpot terms. Inkhorn terms. These two words, both meaning a receptacle for ink, … came to refer to words which are so lengthy (because of their foreign origins) that to write them down would use up a lot of ink. Accordingly, ‘inkhorn terms’ became an abusive label to describe the writing of anyone who welcomed Latinate neologisms….
“It was not surprising to see the pendulum swing to the opposite extreme, in which such coinages were avoided like the plague. Even a scholar of Greek, Sir John Cheke, was hotly opposed to them. In a 1557 letter he writes: ‘I am of the opinion that our tung should be written clean and pure, unmixt and unmangled with borrowing of other tunges.’ … The row went on for half a century–and indeed it has been rumbling ever since. Four hundred years later, George Orwell would be haranguing people for their reliance on classical words: ‘Bad writers … are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.’ ”
David Crystal, The Fight for English, Oxford, Copyright 2006 by David Crystal, pp. 36-40.
Wow. That’s pretty cool.
thanks!
amazing how little attitudes change through the centuries, isn’t it?
Thank you!
I have waited, with bated breath, for someone to come out and say this, without spelling mistakes. I know, many jokes are made about this, but people seem not to realise the issue that it has become.
The unfortunate truth of this particular matter is that the people whose behaviour needs to change, will either be unaware or unwilling to do so. In the end, there is no fix for human stupidity.
Additionally, as I am sure someone will fault me for this, I (being Canadian) have above spelled “realise” correctly. Yes, in America it is spelled with a “z”, but not here, so don’t complain.
As a note for those others who have posted here, masquerading as intellectuals with valid input: if you intend to write an intelligent post, capitalise every “I”.
I honestly laugh at posts below, such as “clarification: i’m speaking here specifically…” and “reading this thread engenders the question…”
I realise that the latter has no “I”, but it has other mistakes, for instance, the lack of a capitalised “R” beginning the sentence. As well, the word “engenders” does not make sense in that context.
If you intend to go to the effort of writing a seemingly intellectual post, first ensure that you are not, simply, a moron.
Simply writing long words or posts does not prove your intelligence or mastery of language, in fact it will, more often than not, disprove it.
In reference directly to the creator of this particular graph, however, thank you for voicing the opinions that I have so long suppressed.
To others, who cannot be bothered to check their spelling, capilisation, punctuation, grammar, or context: I hate you.
That is all, good night.
you better look up “engenders”
A few corrections to my previous block, and an addendum.
To the above poster, yes, it could fit, but other words would work better. “Engenders” suggest personification, I personally would have used “raises”, however this is more a point of personal preference as opposed to an actual error, ergo I apologise to that poster, and any other to whom I may have caused distress. However, that post was still uncapitalised, and I still take issue with that.
As well, in my previous post, I said “posts below”. I was unfamiliar with the format of this site, and thus would change that to “above”, were there an editing system of some sort.
As the aforementioned addendum: I don’t hate people. English is, in truth, a terrible language, and I do not hate people who can’t speak it. It’s a misshapen conglomerate, often bastardizing other languages for its own good, and is thus (I believe) the hardest to speak, learn, or communicate in.
I do, however, severely dislike (at the least) people who pretend to be intelligent, using expansive words and such, but not taking the nigh-on non-existent effort to check before they post.
As well, to the above poster, attempting to correct me: please capitalise next time.
I don’t fear criticism, indeed I welcome it, but really, why would you do that?
The shift key is to the left…
no apologies necessary, since i don’t think you’re causing anyone any distress.
You should, however, double-check your spelling of capitalization/capitalisation in the last sentence of your first post, especially if you’re going to agree with the maker of this graph that spelling errors are becoming an issue on the internet.
Ah, yes, Devylan, thank you for pointing it out.
I really do wish that there were an option to edit prior posts, but alas, there is not.
Thus, I would like to change that particular sentence to read “…spelling, capitalisation, punctuation…”
I forgot the “ta”…
Well, ta-ta for now…
really, this response is directed not so much toward you, but toward any readers who may be swayed by the assertion that “engenders” is any kind of a personal verb.
it is not true that “engenders” suggests personification. i’ve never heard that suggestion before, so i did a bit of research, but found nothing to support that idea. in fact, on merriam-webster’s site, their example usage of this word is: “policies that have engendered controversy”, which is clearly a non-personal usage.
of course, anyone is free to make whatever personal preferences they like with a word (that, after all, how a living language continues to live), but it could lead to misunderstandings under current conditions.
Hmm, fair enough, I can’t debate that. I had been led to a different understanding regarding its use, however being unsure, I should not have raised it as any sort of mistake.
I am honestly sorry for calling into question the poster (or, indeed, posters) involved.
no apologies necessary for “calling into question” any issue (v. a person), since without questions there would be less inquiry into assumptions. it’s the assumptions that cause problems, which is why i do tend to check things out before i post, and try not to make assumptions about others’ “real intentions” just because they have a different style than i.
Hmm, you have a point.
I believe I worded everything I have said up to this point terribly, and looking back, it gives a message other than that which I intended to convey.
I’m not going to try to rephrase it, because I would fail.
I’ve made enough unintentional enemies as it is.
Thank you.
well, i don’t know about that (the enemies part, that is). a nicely worded retraction (which you have supplied) goes a long way toward bridging rifts.
Thank you.
I think I need to admit that I’ve been a total ass, and I truly am sorry.
I don’t want enemies, so I’ll do whatever I can to prevent making them, or improve the situation…
I’ll be honest, when I typed those things I just needed to be acidic, abrasive, and an ass.
If for an edit system, I maybe would delete those prior posts, but I don’t think I would.
Rather than erasing my mistake, I would prefer to admit that I have made one, and allow others to see it if they wish.
I made a mistake, several in fact, and I’m sorry if I did insult anyone.
Even if I did not, I am still sorry.
Thank you for both pointing the errors in my ways, and for understanding afterwards.
Thank you for listening.
if we’re honest, we’ve probably all done just that at some time or another–the anonymity of the net allows it, even encourages it. i know it took me some time to find my “online voice”, and these comment threads can really bring out the worst in us. (i found one the other day that took exactly 4 posts to devolve into degraded personal attacks!)
(and just for the record, from where i stand, there are several other posters in this comment collection alone who might do well to take a hint on this subject…)
Haha, indeed it would seem so. However, I suppose a lesson is that we cannot change others’ behaviour, we can only make them aware of it, and hope that they will make an effort to change.
Anonymity is a powerful, frightening thing…security is mortal’s chiefest enemy…
HOW HAS NOBODY POINTED THIS OUT YET:
This chart represents the different types of spelling mistakes found on this website, yet the red (and largest) portion of the pie chart does not represent spelling mistakes at all! It references a group of people (who may or may not spell correctly in any given posting)! Everyone’s been so busy talking about spelling and grammar that nobody realized the graph itself doesn’t make sense!
Actually I thought that section represented the people who believe themselves superior, yet still make a spelling mistake. It just was not exactly stated, but infered. (Still looks mispelled… it’s 4am, I am not going to look that one up.)
A double “r”, for future reference…
“inferred”
A double “s”, for future reference:
Asshole
Yes, you know, I am an asshole…
I saw that someone else had made a mistake, and they seemed displeased with it (read their parenthical statement), ergo I told them what the correct spelling was.
Indeed, that definitely does make me an asshole…in the future, I will abstain from answering any questions that people might pose.
My greatest apologies for causing what is clearly a great affront to your decency.
I hope you appreciated that comeback, by the way; it hurt my British
Touche…
I like it.
It was a good comeback, however. Good use of parallelism.
Hmm… the comment was posted near 2 am, not four… odd how you can time travel so fluently… what’s your secret? Or perhaps you live in a different time zone! Brilliant!
Blue and purple also represent a group of people.
Most of the mistakeds I see are ‘than’ in place of ‘then’. I see this so often that when I saw ‘then’ instead of ‘than’ I was surprised.
Dammit mistakes*
:<
THANK YOU!!!!
Shut up, get your head out of your own arse, and have some fun you moany old sad act.
See, the honest mistakes don’t bother me. High school students that devalue their education bothers me a lot. The your/you’re and there/their/they’re and all of that bothers the living heck out of me. The chat speak can stay with the lolcats. But I don’t think anyone misspells anything because they think they’re smarter than anyone else. Regardless, people should check their work before they submit it.
“honest” mistakes don’t bother you but “your”/”you’re”, etc. does? confusing, not least because i’m not sure how one would work out the “honest” mistakes from the (what?) “deliberate” (?) ones.
But i like spelling stuff wrong,u just have to kno when not to do it
It’s ironic that Graph Jam is spelled incorrectly, NO?
I love graphs that pretentiously make fun of pretentious people.
THE IRONY IS CLOYING.
I remember when my math teacher wrote in his notes: “You are suppose to do problems 10-30″. My hand immediately bolted out of my pocket to point at him, and I then yelled at him for making the error.
This message is brought to you by annoyed literate people everywhere.
please, check your spelling
or if they lol alot and can’t stop
I always notice things like that, partially because I’m a thirteen-year-old obsessive compulsive. On my blogs, I made it a rule that no one can use swear words or those LOL OMG IDK NVM things. I can’t stand it.
I think you mean: “Please check your spelling”
Please is not a complete thought, therefore “please” should not have been separated from the rest of the sentence. Please see the “On the Subject of Grammatical Errors…” graph on this website. That is how i feel about you.
Well, gee, thanks. I’m definitely a high school student (I actually go to the 23rd best high school in the country) and I’m pretty sure I don’t “devalue my education” with any errors–spelling or grammatical.
Get over it. It’s the internet. Just because you made a graph doesn’t mean it will happen.
If you want correct spelling etc, go read a book.
Right on!
Hel yah! So dammed anoying when they can’t spel!
Hey, no offense…but it doesn’t matter @ all. Sum ov us Liek di K?
Careful, the people who need this probably don’t know what literate means!
whats literate
i liek dis 1 bot in al likeleyhods da datas waz scruded!
this website is an informal way of communication, where it is not important to spell things correctly, who cares… if i make a mistake in my spelling im not going to go back and fix it because it dosnt matter at all if it is spelled correctly or not, you all need to get a life and get over it.
my hat off to you, sir.
ignorance is bliss =/
O God. Give up u ppl who actually care bout dis. I dont care @ all. Yes, I don’t care @ all! Teh mispeller owt.