I am appalled at the spelling I see everywhere AND on Free Republic. If anything is said, people go crazy. No one will tolerate correction anymore.
Ur prolly rite.
My spelling is terrible but I happily accept correction.
Jesus said that in the end times “everyone would be offended by everything” and that is certainly the case today.
My father is a retired engineer. My mother was an English major. The worst fights I ever recall them having were all over his spelling.
Sausage fingers poking mini-alphabet icons on a 2.5”x4”screen, on a device with a recalcitrant spell-check function, viewed through bifocal glasses. That’s part of the problem.
The other is lack of proof-reading. And, who has time for that?
I understand the spelling is often a typo, but what gets me is improper usage of there, their and they’re. In many cases they’re so anxious to get their post in they don’t bother to run a spell-checker, or their grammar is so poor that they simply do not know how to construct a proper sentence.