Internet Spelling Errors.....

Of course, I was inspired by one of the closed threads in the main forum. There are a couple of spelling errors that I see on the internet all the time - even by those you would assume would know better (columnists and alike.) The two that really annoy me the most are "loose" when one should use "lose" and "rediculous" when the correct spelling is "ridiculous".

I always assumed everybody had that squiggly red line underlining a misspelled word, but maybe not? :confused: Don't get me wrong though. I've accidentally used the wrong form of a word - like right instead of write. Nobody is perfect, but still, it seems like a few of these words are being adopted as being used correctly when that is not the case at all.

Which words have you guys noticed being used incorrectly on a regular basis?

Paging Firstdown to this thread, STAT!

I'm really convinced our schools failed us when it comes to spelling and grammar. That and people are just lazy.

I'm not lazy, I am intensity challenged.

One of my peers at work refuses to use the caps key in his emails.
Drives me crazy to see everything in lower case including his initials.

My speeling sucks and I really had no clue how bad it was until I started posting on the internet. My mother would flip if she knew how bad I am with spelling and grammar. My mother is like one class from having a DR. degree in both. Not sure how I got that by her all those years but some how I did. I'll say its not my teachers fault it was mine because I did not try in school and spelling and grammar did not come easy to me and it shows I did not try. Math did come easy so even though I did not care in school I'm still good in math. If I could go back in life that's one thing I would change. I had spelling check here but when my computers got fried I have not figure how to install spell check for posting.

One of my peers at work refuses to use the caps key in his emails.
Drives me crazy to see everything in lower case including his initials.I get copied on emails like this from a person in a very high ranking position at a pretty big national retail chain all the time and I laugh at every one of them. Either this person is just to busy to bother using the shift key or to write complete sentences or she doesn't have a great grasp on the English language. In any case, I find it kind of amazing.

One of my peers at work refuses to use the caps key in his emails.
Drives me crazy to see everything in lower case including his initials.

Ugh, I see crap like that all the time at work. Just amazes me. A message board is one thing, but in a professional environment? No excuses.

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I've noticed that the higher up in the food chain one may be in my agency, the less computer skills present.

Honestly though, if someone posts on a forum board and their post has a lot of misspelling, such as accidentally getting a couple of letters switched, that doesn't really bother me. I just chalk that up as wanting to post something as quickly as possible.

But, it's those that seem to spell everything else correctly and use pretty decent grammar, but always seem to insist on misspelling ridiculous and lose. That makes me think they really do believe those words are rediculous and loose. I have actually witnessed school teachers on other forums use the same spelling.