Addicted to Blog

I’ve been on the internet a loooong time. I remember being on dial-up in 1995, using Trumpet Winsock to connect to our local service, getting disconnected every ten or fifteen minutes. . .

Anyway. In that time, I have seen this bleary-eyed web we weave grow unbearable at times. Why? Poor typists abound on the internet.

I realize that they abound offline as well, but here, in this forum, it seems even more prevalent. I’m not just talking about ppl hoo typ liek dis, with or without aLtErNaTiNg CaPs, because that’s been done to death, even by me.

Specifically, it’s a few words that I see misspelled over and over and OVER:
1. definitely
“Definately” “Deffinitly” “deafinetly” are the ones I’ve seen, more of the first one then the latter two.
2. tongue
“tounge” “tungue” “tung” - Um, how could someone even think that that is correct?
3. ridiculous
I see it spelled “rediculous” all the time. However, usually these people manage “ridicule;” it’s just a different part of speech.

There are a few others, but they’re escaping me at this point. They’re of the same caliber as the above two.

I could understand if people did not have resources readily available. Cracking one of those dictionaries is HARD, man! However, this is the internet, and in two clicks, you could have the correct spelling. Answers dot com is one of my new favourite sites. Not only can you check the spelling, you can find out how to say it in other languages (among other things)!

Friends have told me that I am overly pedantic*; I just think it is reflective of a person - not, necessarily, that she’s an idiot for being unable to spell, but being too damned lazy to actually look it up, when a veritable wealth of information IS, literally, at her fingertips, is just pathetic.

*At my former college, I was known by my Pink Pen of Doom; I used to correct posted fliers for spelling and grammar.