Quote Originally Posted by Disavowed View Post
Keep one thing in mind. Not everyone one here uses English as a first language and this is what makes our language one of the hardest ones to learn. For those of us who's first language is English. Not all of us type from our pc on here. Smart phones do plenty of auto typing and change words as wer're not seeing the text lay down while looking at the key pads. There are plenty of times it will auto type the wrong word and we never even see it happen as we just keep typing along.

As far as a foreign language goes the first to come to mind is Aranticus. Some of his text has grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors. But I never think dude is stupid. I have no doubt that he's twice as smart as me even with his short comings in the English language and putting it to text. Again it's not his first language.
There's typing the wrong thing because your fingers are all over the place (last night as an example I think I typed: U ciykd yse a gaste L( - yes, my right hand missed the home key ... and there's typing the wrong thing because you don't know any better. In any case, if I know what they mean I'll not bother to risk upset by correcting them.

I think we all know there are many non-native english speakers out there... but what really scares me is that the majority of those mixing up there/they're/their ARE native english speakers. In fact, I'm pretty sure I see better word selection from the non-native speakers, presumably because they're actually taught english rather than picking a significant proportion up from peers, complete with bad habits.

Now, without further adieu, ect ect, I bid you ado. *twitch*