Re: Soo what your saying... [you're vs. your]

The "your/you're" error happens way too often. I don't believe it has anything to do with a learning disability, but just laziness, unaware, or a poor habit.

Posted By: mariahlove

Is she may be "special" aka possibly has a learning disability, and your complaining about how she spells things? Someone having a learning disability (if this is the case) has NOTHING to do with how she provides.. I take this to heart as my cousin has a learning disability, she is also a provider whom gets 10/10s. Scoring doesn't mean everything but in this case i'm throwing it out there and it does not effect how she treats her clients. At all, just my .02 good night  
   

Posted By: vpnfsdc

There was a thread on this a while ago.  
     
  Anyway, it normally doesn't get to me, and my spelling isn't always perfect, but there's one girl who sometimes shows up on BP escorts who's a little special.  
     
  Her ad reads like a personal ad, going on at some length about what she hopes to find in a client, and being more vague than suggestive about what she might offer in return. It's all written in quite flowery language, but in spite of that, there are quite a few instances of "your" where she should have written "you're."  
     
  I toyed with writing back: "Aye am sari, butt your two good fore me."  
     
  Then I checked the skin on my back, and finding it all still there, I thought "Naw. Let her do her thing."  
   
 -- Modified on 3/22/2014 9:34:56 PM

I have a learning disability that makes it nearly impossible to spell consistently.  It is not a mental limitation, in fact it can be a plus.  Dyslexia is not an indication of mental capacity or IQ.  Dyslectics will often have math scores that are off the chart but that 'dose'nt' help with spelling.

some of the my miss-spells have made it past the spell check and some contributors have taken the time to point out that they are better than me because of spelling.  When I read this and others like it I wonder why it is so important to point out that the girl does not have a good education or has a learning disability.  What is your point, other than putting the girl down.

BTW: every thing I wrote her is 1000% my opinion.  Spelling does not bother me but I am tempted to explain to posters that 100% is everything, 1000% is nothing.  Decimals are much easier than spelling, maybe the teachers among us can focus on 'htat'

I'm not unsympathetic to what you brought up. I have some close family who are said to have similar limitations. That said, their parents could shape up a little also. I hate to write off a kid's potential for the rest of his/her life on the basis of what looks to me to be pretty weak science (in their case, not your cousin's, since I don't know your cousin).

I've volunteered at an organization that works with people with severe physical and neurologic disabilities, so I'll certainly look out for people - even complete strangers - regardless of my personal preference for trying to be all you can be, and only saying "I can't" when you've really tried every way to break that ceiling.

Just my .02

There are a lot of people out there for whom English is not their native language.  Glaring mistakes are common in first generation speakers.  Gently correct them and move on, you will have done your good deed for the day.

A lot of them use translation apps which are less than accurate, that's another issue.

Good illustration of the importance of correct syntax.

I can see another good reason some people would abbreviate their ads on BP .  
Their rules only allow so many paragraphs so, not much room for it.