In England there are 2 types of spellers.
Those that can and them wot carnt.

Hmmm, tis the internet, and i can see misspellings such as reversed letters do to a fast hand, or overlooking. I of course am guilty of that type of error, but basically, I know how to write correctly, being in college level English all your life teaches you such, but I,m not going to bother with such nonsense as fragments, run-ons, clauses, and participles, on a message board.

Yeah but you could bother with coherency.

no, it is. It's the misplaced letters that throw you off most likely.

I cannot speak for our American cousins-but here in U.K we can be pretty lazy about spelling and punctuation.

There is also a huge amount of accents and colloquialisms here (slang basically-just showing off with a big word!), which has a bearing on our speech-people living no more than fifty miles apart can have different words for different things.

E.G-Chewing Gum is Chuddy where I come from.

When English is not your first language you are going to learn it correctly-whereas a lot of English kids know the lingo (slang!) and so; cannot be bothered.

Adidasss-I am very impressed with your English. An erstwhile work colleague of mine who has since become a good friend, is Slovakian and her English is excellent considering she has had such a short time to learn.

Half of those commas were un needed =\.

Try nearly all of them.

The percent of illiterate English speakers has been lowered to make it seem like they are more intelligent than people who speak other languages when in fact the standard for being considered illiterate has only been lowered.

Hi, let's try to put aside the rather obnoxious opening post and use this thread to correct other people's mistakes. Maybe we'll all learn a thing or two.

For example:
This is something I see a lot so let's try and clear up a few things;

their - that which belongs to them. Examples: their accomplishments; their home town.

there - At or in that place. Examples: Sit over there. Wouldn't go there again...

they're - Contraction of "they are". Examples: They're so big. They're coming.

Also:

your - of, belonging to, or associated with you. Examples: Your book. Your bad taste in music.

you're - Contraction of "you are". Examples: You're a twat. You're not allowed to misspell this again.

K, thank you, that is all, you may go now...

Don't forget to chastise the Americans with their miss-use of the word then instead of than.

Despite a traditional Grammar School education, I've always had problems with your and you're.
In fact, it wasn't till a few months ago that the penny finally dropped. :o: