this is a forum for people who have opinions about F1­ GP racing not spell checkers.

ev'nin' Donald

I can appreciate your point,­ and I think there can usually be seen to be a­ difference between banana fingers and bad spelling, but­ I still would raise the flag for all those that despite­ everything have a difficulty. My real issue is with­ those such as Roz that pick on the more complex words­ such as too and to, when they have no idea as to the­ background of the individual and then they make no­ valuable contribution to the forum. We can all get­ things wrong ! :-) and there are some words that spell­ check would not pick up even if used, however I suppose­ there is a danger that next we will be telling the­ Americans to put all the U's back into words :-)­ (which is a pet hate of mine as well as using z instead­ of s)

I think for me it is getting a balance and I­ know what you are saying about free education in the UK­ and stuff like that, but when we are old and decrepit­ we cannot go back to the time when we were 14 and­ bunked off, or to re-educate our own parents as to the­ value of education.

By the way Tam I think you will­ find that today many University graduates are extremely­ poor at spelling and sentance construction as tehy are­ used to text speak etc, so much so that many employers­ now give literacy tests to all job candidates.

I rest my case

donald in education if one dosnt grasp the building­ blocks from the of then they are left behind teachers­ dont have the time too go back for the odd­ stragler,just cos i cannot spell it doesnt mean i didnt­ have a wonderful education, there are plenty of peeps­ who grad from uni and cant get a job. why cos they can­ spell and are over quillifide. so stop stareing down­ your pompous nose at the ilitrate coss some of us have­ etch a good life for ourselves thru hard work and have­ earned the right too be on here equal too you. swaety

sweat ;-)

Ellie

We all make mistakes - even me and there's­ nothing wrong with your spelling so far as I am­ concerned. It's the lack of effort that annoys me­ the most. Lack of effort at school (and the whole­ " I have paid my taxes since, so I had the right­ to @#$% it off at school" argument shows a lack of­ appreciation for the fact we have free education and­ that right was earned through a great deal of blood,­ swaet and tears.) is no excuse. If a person has a­ genuine difficulty in writing, through no fault of­ their own, then I wouldn't criticise them for­ trying.

Johnny Boy surely you can do better than logging in as­ that idiotic creation of yours formula1police. I know­ you aint very bright Johnny but even you could invent a­ better character than that spouter of inane­ rubbish.

Come on Johnny boy give it up.

not wanting to seem like getting at you Donald, as you­ are not the 'worst' I appreciate that you are­ irritated by bad spelling, for many people it is not­ that but banana fingers etc. But the likes of Roz, who­ only post about other peoples spelling errors, and then­ chooses to concentrate on words such as THEIR or TOO­ which are difficult for some to grasp and may be due­ to a whole manner of things. Not only the fact that­ people may not have English as the first language and­ that type of nuance may be difficult to grasp.

The way­ I access this forum does not have a spell check­ facility, so I could spend loads of time going through­ my posts and correcting all the bits that are duff, or­ I could just send off the post, and those that want to­ read it can, those that don't can pass over it. It­ doesn't matter to me if people do not want to read­ it, it will not be the end of life as we know it.

By­ the way you didn't pay for my education unless you­ are extremely old :-) and I believe that I have more­ than repaid the State in taxes since. I also paid for­ all my own higher education on every occassion.

It is­ just for me the value of a person is in the ideas,­ views and not in the correctness of their posting.­ There is a point when people who deliberately make­ their posts unreadable that should be told about it,­ and the letter a should be taken from certain peoples­ keyboards, but apart from that does it really matter?

lol cheers cracker i too have big hands, but it realy­ is bad spelling with me.

donald seems you did understand it . not every one has­ the same intelect at the schools you yourself paid for­ so me leaveing school with no olevels and no hope . i­ personaly have never sign on the dole. so that leaves­ yr tax alone my work force pays tax for the schools­ who taught your children. so get of yr spelling high­ horse. and be an f1 fan its what this site is about­ surely.

Abbinator

I don't want to come across as 'the­ spelling and grammar police', but I should point­ out that when I see post riddled with basic spelling­ and grammar errors it makes me think that the person­ who posted it is either dyslexic or really thick... or­ didn't try at school (which I paid for). Dyslexia­ is a minor excuse, as we have spelling and grammar­ check - the other reasons just make me ignore what they­ have to say. I see it as insulting that a person who­ wants others to listen to what they have to say­ can't even be bothered to make their post­ understandable.

. . .And TAM doesn't have a "grammer"­ problem TAM has a my fingers are so fat I hit all the­ keys at once problem, TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

Well slap my belly and call jethro I believe this forum­ has been hijacked by . . .

Silverstone is a must!! ­ Bernie should be beaten, flogged and fired then­ flogged again for not helping out during "these­ economic times" and forced to watch the races­ sitting next the Flabbio in the cheap seats and then­ flogged some more.

ahh Donald i am with u on the text speak, 110% 4 sure

by the way chaps is it me, and my duff memory or was­ there supposed to be something with camels and a load­ of dung today?