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[Psych1985]

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Does it bother anyone else that MDapps consistently spells Virginia wrong?

Virgina...it just sounds like a southern way of saying vagina.

 

[beachblonde]

Forget MDapps, I find the number of spelling and grammar mistakes on this forum to be really kind of appalling.

We've all made typos before, that's not what I'm talking about; I'm referring to the number of people who managed to get into college without having any idea of the difference among your/you're, too/to, they're/there, etc.

I refrain from posting to correct these people, but goodness, it takes a lot of willpower some days.

 

[Boges]

My personal peeve is "alot".

 

[Eudjinn]

Forget MDapps, I find the number of spelling and grammar mistakes on this forum to be really kind of appalling.

We've all made typos before, that's not what I'm talking about; I'm referring to the number of people who managed to get into college without having any idea of the difference among your/you're, too/to, they're/there, etc.

I refrain from posting to correct these people, but goodness, it takes a lot of willpower some days.

your right

 

[Chocolate Bear]

your right

I'm weary that your gonna illicit alot of backdraft.

 

[Boges]

Yes, its funny when its intentional.

 

[lainey234]

C'mon man - "noone" is perfect!

 

[rajaholick]

do people really use proper grammar online?
i usually dont care enough to capitalize or use proper puncuation

 

[MossPoh]

I care. My fingers don't work right. It really isn't that much work to hit shift with one hand while capitalizing with the other. If you know how to type correctly then the abbreviations and random typos just slow you down. Nobody is perfect with the stuff but it really isn't saving you time to not capitalize or ignore punctuation unless you are a hunt and peck typer.

 

[aterry]

I think the people who complain about a bad interview experience on the interview feedback page but they can't be bothered to capitalize or type out "you". I mean really, if you are typing on a pre-professional forum and you can't get away from your stupid "text speak" then maybe you aren't ready for medical school anyway. Oh and I hate when people use there when they mean their.

 

[beachblonde]

I'm weary that your gonna illicit alot of backdraft.

It's just sad when people don't know any better. It's a failure of our educational system.

 

[Semicolon]

Forget MDapps, I find the number of spelling and grammar mistakes on this forum to be really kind of appalling.

We've all made typos before, that's not what I'm talking about; I'm referring to the number of people who managed to get into college without having any idea of the difference among your/you're, too/to, they're/there, etc.

I refrain from posting to correct these people, but goodness, it takes a lot of willpower some days.

I think you would enjoy this:

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tt-WIdmCVQ[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Eudjinn]

do people really use proper grammar online?
i usually dont care enough to capitalize or use proper puncuation

failure to capitalize or punctuate can be a sign of laziness and not a huge deal IMO, agreed.

using "your" when "you're" is indicated (or something similar) is a fundamental mistake that can be attributed to not knowing the correct usage as opposed to just being too lazy to punctuate (if people wrote "youre" instead of "your," I would buy the fact that they just can't be bothered to put in the apostrophe, but this is almost always the other way around).

I agree with OP. Assuming you are not from a foreign country, if you received a US education up to and including college and you aspire to go to medical school, there really is no excuse for not knowing the differences between "your" and "you're" and so fourth.

my 0.02c

 

[Eudjinn]

PS: this is not just a pet peeve of mine. I don't think anyone would argue that being a physician requires above average communication skills.

 

[beachblonde]

I think you would enjoy this:

[youtube]7tt-WIdmCVQ[/youtube]

I love it! That's a fabulous. I can't say I spend a lot of time reading youtube comments, but I can only imagine how awful they are.

failure to capitalize or punctuate can be a sign of laziness and not a huge deal IMO, agreed.

using "your" when "you're" is indicated (or something similar) is a fundamental mistake that can be attributed to not knowing the correct usage as opposed to just being too lazy to punctuate (if people wrote "youre" instead of "your," I would buy the fact that they just can't be bothered to put in the apostrophe, but this is almost always the other way around).

I agree with OP. Assuming you are not from a foreign country, if you received a US education up to and including college and you aspire to go to medical school, there really is no excuse for not knowing the differences between "your" and "you're" and so fourth.

my 0.02c

Indeed. I habitually fail to capitalize while posting on forums or while gchatting, I'll own up to that. But it really bothers me that soon to be and current medical students really quite legitimately don't know that there =/= they're =/= their.

And sorry for hijacking the thread, OP!

 

[Chocolate Bear]

I don't get too bent out of shape about stuff like this. I mean, if I can read what you're saying, I don't care about some misspells or some grammatical errors. Lots of people type responses in a hurry or in a similar fashion to how they speak to other early-twenty year-olds on the internet.

However, if your post is so bad that I can't decipher it without consulting urbandictionary.com, I hope you weren't counting on a response from me. 😉

 

[darkosbunny]

Does it bother anyone else that MDapps consistently spells Virginia wrong?

Virgina...it just sounds like a southern way of saying vagina.

I'm a big Gator football fan and I participate on a Gator sports forum.

On a sports forum, the issue of dominant teams and players frequently comes up.

However, the vast majority of posters seem to think that this is the correct usage of the word: "our linebacking corps is really dominate!" Doh! Dominant, people, DOM-IN-ANT. Jeez.

But yes, a lot of posters on this very site make so many spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. What's even more surprising, is a lot of these students claim they go to ridiculously tough undergrad schools like UCLA, Virginia, NYU, etc. How they got in and have such a horrible grasp of the English language is something that boggles the mind.

 

[badapplestix]

Great video