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JB
Lv 4
JB asked in Yahoo ProductsOther - Yahoo Products · 1 decade ago

Does your patience run thin when somebody is asking a question?

that has a bunch of misspelled words, and has numbers in place of words?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Depends on my mood and if it's an arrogant question, I guess. I have been known to snap at people who makes no attempt at using spell check (it's right there on the top right corner!) and then assumes that people will understand them. For example, I had this one spoiled brat a week or two ago who asked if he had any right to be mad at his parents for not paying for his college tuition. The spelling, the grammar, the numbers for words were so off, it gave me a headache so I ended up giving him a piece of my mind.

  • 1 decade ago

    Some misspelling is okay if it's a typing error.

    But I do get annoyed at diliberate spelling changes to make words look "kool" or putting numbers in word preally annoys me because as a dyslexic I sometimes have absolutely no idea what they are trying to say.

  • Bryan
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I am fine so long as I can understand the meaning of what is being asked. It is when the meaning is completely unclear or so muddled as too make no sense that I get annoyed. However, as a general rule if the question is indecipherable then I just do not answer it. I get more annoyed by people just answering the question to complain about the spelling than anything else.

  • 1 decade ago

    numbers aren't really a problem with me, but those who spell "weird"...it really pisses me off. i think everyone can distinguish typos from intended spelling-changes.

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