Batya33 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 While it was annoying I actually found it useful in weeding guys out. I'd rather have lazy, less than intelligent guys use their bad grammar so I can avoid them easier. I also found it to be a good screening tool. Link to comment
GirlontheLam Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I find myself making weird spelling mistakes, especially from my phone. My iphone goes cuckoo with autocorrect. But messages like this? Hi I'm Jason. Wats ur name? U got nice smile Auto-reject button please. Link to comment
Polis Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I have to agree that a profile riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes drives me away instantly, regardless of how the person looks. Sometimes I receive emails from women, like the most recent one, which have no real substance to follow. Here is what I just received yesterday, and I haven't even logged onto OKC in a month: "Dinosaurs scare me, LOL. I can't watch Jurassic Park..." No "hello", no "my name is ....", nothing just a sentence about dinosaurs with a 'LOL'. I don't know if the rules are different for women, but I do not respond to these short messages unless I'm wow'ed by their profile. I think lack of substance is just as bad as spelling and grammatical errors! Link to comment
BritterSweet Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 There's the occasional mistake, and then there's just plain not caring. That's where I draw the line. Link to comment
EssexMan Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Here is what I just received yesterday, and I haven't even logged onto OKC in a month: "Dinosaurs scare me, LOL. I can't watch Jurassic Park..." That's bizarre, out of the blue! Is there something about dinosaurs in your profile? Link to comment
EssexMan Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Sure, I understand if you're chatting online or sending a text message you don't need proper punctuation and capitalization, etc but if you're sending a message or an email? No capitals, no punctuation, poor grammar and spelling. It's really offputting. I know it's worse in younger generations but I would not say the people writing to me are particularly young. They are mostly around my age - early-late 30s. Ridiculous. It's totally offputting. I can imagine them speaking to me like that in real life too. Minor spelling errors (e.g. "delibarate") or obvious typos ("typso") don't bother me but a complete lack of articulacy would. Reading and writing are big things in my life and although naturally I don't restrict myself to meeting people exactly like me, if those passions are completely alien to them the chances are we're not going to be a great match. And txt-speak is just wearing. I'll use it a little in live chat (btw, cya) but hardly at all in email-style messaging. I think the comparatively limited vocabulary of txt-speak also makes it difficult to get a sense of the person behind the abbreviations. Link to comment
mfan Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 If so writs th whole msg lk ts, it jst mk m feel lik they wrot it in 5 sec & dont rly care ab me Link to comment
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