does spelling count?

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#1

okay, i tend to be a spelling fiend. i correct everything when it comes to blogs or site text - although sometimes typos do happen.

but to be honest, i make some great sales on sponsors where there are a few misspellings here and there. not perhaps on words we all know and love, but i suspect that when it comes to misspells, it adds a little amateur personality to some sites. in fact, i’ve long suspected that nastydollars and a few other reality programs deliberately use a few misspellings to add to their “amateur cred”.

there are a few misspellings that just annoy me - amatuer for amateur on an amateur site is one. but does every word have to be spelled correctly? i don’t think so. what’s your opinion on this?

#2

Re: does spelling count?

Gee I hope NOT! Spelling is not my thing and grammer is not my thing either. I dont think it matters that much, but I do use the wordpress spell checker and hope its correcting my english correctly. I dont have a spell checker for IE though.

#3

Re: does spelling count?

Marc… You can just put it in MS Word, and hit F7. Then you should be able to copy and paste it wherever you want it to go. :love:

Basschick -I don’t think that it matters too terribly much if people misspell a few words here and there. I agree that it makes the blog or site look more ‘human’, unless it’s intended as being a more ‘professional’ publication.

In an decade that saw ‘l33t’ added to the dictionary, and where some of my friends actually say ‘lawl’ (lol) in spoken conversation, I think the majority of today’s adult viewers are more comfortable with a few glaring errors.

Especially when business men in their thirties are contacting me via e-mail with, “Hey how r u? I rlly wanna stream with u guys. Whut do I hafta do?”

#4

Re: does spelling count?

While I personally thing good spelling looks nice, it’s not too important on blog entries. I think on the web, spelling is more flexible than in print, especially for porn. But, I’d certainly hate to scare away a sale to a porn paysite for a misspelled word or two.

Centuries ago, there was no standardized spelling in English, and some famous authors even spelled particular words differently in the same text.

#5

Re: does spelling count?

Personally I think spelling is very important, yes a few typo’s are acceptable, But to be honest the times that I am surfing if the grammar and spelling in a site is too bad I simply leave, why? because I would not want to hand over $15-$30 to some moron that cant be fucked to use a spell checker…

If English is not your native language then fair enough, the problem is at it’s worst when you find sites that try to hide the fact, a small few do a very good job of this and others try way too hard and miss the target completely, making the site and text sound more like a scam then anything else, even if the links point to well known sponsors I makes me not want to click.

Another example is our news site, the guy that does most of the articles is French and whilst his English translations or very good (far better than my French I must add) You can still tell that he is French in the grammar, At first I started to correct this, then found that it just did not sound at all right most of the time, so I decided to leave the French flavor in there, rather than try to hide it anymore.

I do admit that my spelling is terrible and without a spell checker there was 5 spelling mistakes in this text alone! lol … But with constant use it does actually teach you how to spell as long as you are paying attention to what it is correcting… I know something is spelt incorrectly by the shape of the word in question rather than the letters it contains some form of dyslexia I have been told…

L33t to me is not something I use very often, but I do find it acceptable in certain cases, like SMS, I mean 3 letters and a number on every key not to mention all the other things that any one key can do drives me nucking futs !

Especially when business men in their thirties are contacting me via e-mail with, “Hey how r u? I rlly wanna stream with u guys. Whut do I hafta do?”

I would read that as being just plain ignorant and having a total lack of respect, in whatever form it was delivered in… The person may not be like that but on a first impression that is how I would view it… sorry.

So in a nutshell if a thick bastard like me can correct the spelling and only use l33t when I cant get the fucking mobile to type what I want it to then there is no excuses for the others rofl

#6

Re: does spelling count?

I always go around the block with this one. I’m as guilty as any and misspell words frequently, especially when I’m in a hurry - my little built in alerts usually tell me when I’ve made a mistake.

However, I often trick the spell checker with words it doesn’t recognize and I need to refer to my dictionaries to see if I’ve spelled correctly. Those are usually very big words that are way esoteric and rarely used. (especially not in porn)

I don’t enjoy reading text when its full of blatant mistakes. I tend not to trust what I’m reading. However, a couple of mistakes here and there don’t lead me to the edge.

Phrase structure, sentence structure and grammar DO get me going and what bothers me the most are the improper use of homophones or words which have the same spelling or pronunciation but have different meanings. Such as bear and bare or the obvious to, too, and two, their and they’re and so on…

my 3¢