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Spelling is not really important

#11

Oh, my stuff was for native speakers @DogyBrown! You're fine :)

Oh, my stuff was for native speakers @DogyBrown! You're fine :)
#13

Technically it's mine as well ;) But I doubt starting at 5 counts lol

*Technically* it's mine as well ;) But I doubt starting at 5 counts lol
#14

While spelling isn't that important, sure, it does make it a little easier to understand.

While spelling isn't *that* important, sure, it does make it a little easier to understand.
#15

A more accurate take:

Spelling is very important.

But when the spelling is done in a second (or third, or fourth ....) language, then spelling mistakes should be viewed with much greater sympathy.

If a native Russian speaker makes a spelling mistake in English, I will merely shrug it off and not care.

However, if a native English speaker provides a resume in English with spelling mistakes, or even typographical errors, I am unlikely to put it on the top of the pile.

I think it's useful and important for folks to display a good measure of care and effort when they communicate in their native language. Others can disagree, but they might want to check the attitudes of prospective employers before they do.

A well-crafted, SELF-crafted resume still makes a stronger impression.

A more accurate take: Spelling is very important. But when the spelling is done in a second (or third, or fourth ....) language, then spelling mistakes should be viewed with much greater sympathy. If a native Russian speaker makes a spelling mistake in English, I will merely shrug it off and not care. However, if a native English speaker provides a resume in English with spelling mistakes, or even typographical errors, I am unlikely to put it on the top of the pile. I think it's useful and important for folks to display a good measure of care and effort when they communicate in their native language. Others can disagree, but they might want to check the attitudes of prospective employers before they do. A well-crafted, SELF-crafted resume still makes a stronger impression.
#16

Spelling is absolutely to become perfunctory if you are to know the difference between two, to, and too, too. The letters, they're there in specific positions so that when you see your friends you can let them know their shoes are untied. It is the mark of an educated man, and woman.

Spelling is absolutely to become perfunctory if you are to know the difference between two, to, and too, too. The letters, they're there in specific positions so that when you see your friends you can let them know their shoes are untied. It is the mark of an educated man, and woman.
#17

@Noflaps said in #15:

But when the spelling is done in a second (or third, or fourth ....) language, then spelling mistakes should be viewed with much greater sympathy.

I guess that means you apologize for every time you used my English mistakes to discredit my points, make yourself feel and look superior, and justify that your fallacies are somehow right because the person debunking them wrote "Etymology" (among other stuff) wrong?

That's big of you. Especially since you never apologized sincerely to anyone.

Oh wait. Or you are just a hypocrite.

@Noflaps said in #15: > But when the spelling is done in a second (or third, or fourth ....) language, then spelling mistakes should be viewed with much greater sympathy. I guess that means you apologize for every time you used my English mistakes to discredit my points, make yourself feel and look superior, and justify that your fallacies are somehow right because the person debunking them wrote "Etymology" (among other stuff) wrong? That's big of you. Especially since you never apologized sincerely to anyone. Oh wait. Or you are just a hypocrite.
#18

Dogy is totally right, and in no way wrong.
I'll prove this point to you all by applying the noblest of languages, German, to the matter at hand:

It's not spelling... Not in the least...

Es ist das Schpellink! Go ask Heinrich Heine!

Dogy is totally right, and in no way wrong. I'll prove this point to you all by applying the noblest of languages, German, to the matter at hand: It's not spelling... Not in the least... Es ist das Schpellink! Go ask Heinrich Heine!
#19

@DogyBrown post #10 is pretty well in terms of spelling and understandability, but I don't get why you have to omit the spaces at the end of sentences (almost feels like it's deliberate. No first language motivates to do this...)

and in response to #3: the laziness of some people's spelling also speaks for itself.

@DogyBrown post #10 is pretty well in terms of spelling and understandability, but I don't get why you have to omit the spaces at the end of sentences (almost feels like it's deliberate. No first language motivates to do this...) and in response to #3: the laziness of some people's spelling also speaks for itself.
#20

Depends, I think the thought counts. If you tried and your spelling isn't perfect, it passes, but if you sloily attempted to write someting in 1 secnd and faal at speln, you should get awfuluy raosted.

Depends, I think the thought counts. If you tried and your spelling isn't perfect, it passes, but if you sloily attempted to write someting in 1 secnd and faal at speln, you should get awfuluy raosted.