"Spelling standards are stupid!"

Katrika

If no spelling standards existed, I might choose to keep typing like this.

Sumwan else mite preefar thice.

In fcat, it wulond't be ferathfecd if smnoeoe satertd tynipg lkie tihs to cagnlhale peolpe.

JET HFX UOEA GNLY? (Hint: e equals a!)

pərhæps ðæt læst ɪgzæmpəl wəz tu sɪli. ay əpɑləǰɑyz.

Myrmidon

The COOK of Londoun, whil the Reve spak,

For joye him thoughte, he clawed him on the bak.

"Ha! ha!" quod he, "for Criste passioun,

This miller hadde a sharp conclusioun

5   Upon his argument of herbergage.

Wel seyde Salomon in his langage,

`Ne bryng nat every man into thyn hous,'

For herberwynge by nyghte is perilous.

Wel oghte a man avysed for to be,

10  Whom that be broghte into his pryvetee.

I pray to God so yeve me sorwe and care,

If evere sitthe I highte Hogge of Ware,

Herde I a millere bettre yset awerk.

He hadde a jape of malice in the derk.

15  But God forbede that we stynte heere,

And therfore, if ye vouche-sauf to heere

A tale of me that am a povre man,

I wol yow telle, as wel as evere I kan,

A litel jape that fil in oure citee

Tnu1138

Now those were the good old days. It didn't matter so long as you were able to be understood.

Katrika

Being able to be understood is the problem here, Tnu.

Tnu1138

I'm not seeing what you're not understanding every thing I type can easily be made out phonetically if needed.

Katrika

Tnu.

This thread is NOT. ABOUT. YOU.

It is about SPELLING STANDARDS IN GENERAL.

Please do not make this thread about you, you have your own thread about that.

Wicked223

If you didn't understand what someone was trying to type when they made a spelling error, you wouldn't know it was an error in the first place.

Yes, spelling errors are annoying to read, but they're hardly incomprehensible, and certainly not worth having a lower opinion of someone for.

Tnu1138

sorry. Just using the poi nt of refrence that I know. Is that so bad?

Katrika

Wicked: This isn't about tnu, and I don't have a lower opinion of him. It's about the headaches it was cause to shift between modes of spelling that are perfectly fine in their own every time you wanted to, say, read a forum. At least with old english, spelling would be consistant in a document, ideally.

GLORIOUSLeader

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Katrika

Ow my head.

Khwarizmi

If no spelling standards existed, I might choose to keep typing like this.

2omeone el2e miight prefer thii2.

iN fAcT, iT wOuLdN't Be FaRfEtChEd If SoMe MoThErFuCkEr StArTeD tYpInG lIkE tHiS tO cHaLlEnGe PeOpLe.

Can you read this?

pERHAPS THAT LAST EXAMPLE WAS TOO SILLY, I APOLOGIZE,

GLORIOUSLeader

Goddamit. Now I'm imagining that in the voice of the 12th Doctor.

(That is him, right? I don't watch Dr. Who.) 

Vivi

YAY HOMESTUCK REFERENCES

Katrika

You solved it, Bobby!

Khwarizmi

The Eleventh Doctor, but you were close.

And yes, Homestuck references.

Vivi

Ugh.

AHR

NO. NO SOLLUX TYPING.

GOD NO.

GLORIOUSLeader

That gif is a wonderful gif(t). 

DonZabu

Without spelling standards, this is what you end up with: