What annoys you most about the forum threads? (66)

I've said this before on the International forum and although many people concurred, I also received a mountain of disgruntled replies and accusations of pettiness.

So, once again, here it is, bad spelling and grammar! I understand English is not the native language of many members so I do make allowances and I realise there are people with problems such as dyslexia, but for those whose native language is English, please try a little harder.

I also understand that we often reply and post very quickly, so it is very easy to make mistakes, I do too at times, but it really does annoy me. More so in the profiles because people have time to think about what they write here so surely a little effort is not difficult. I have also received emails from men whose native language is English, which I have not been able to make head nor tail of! Surely if you are interested in someone enough to send an email you would want to make a good first impression!

In my defence, I am an English teacher, so please don't slate me for my rant.

hehe i totally agree, first impressions are so important and i think that all women would only be interested in a person who at least matches their level of intelligence, so if good spelling for u is a priority then people who do not spell so well will obviously score very low on ur 'wants and needs' list!

something else that disses me off is when people do not include photos in their profiles, i delete their emails and flowers at once without even bothering to check out what they have written. if u have a computer then u must have a photo of urself and even if u dont u should take the initiative to obtain one.. the fact that u don't want to show others what u look like is a complete turn off to me.. it's already quite frustrating trying to get to know people online, not knowing what they look like does not help at all!

AND THE ABOVE GOES TO YOU YAMIYAMI

im english and im the first to admit that at times my spelling is nonot the best and jan is so right we native writers and speakers should lead by example my only is excuse is i try to be quick and my laptop is no very good anymore but i for one will try to improve

You're English is just fine wedward, take my word for it.. I'm an English teacher..

If you really want to improve, i do have a suggestion though.. i noticed u do not use punctuation, and u write long sentences without inserting any commas or fullstops. Try including these and i promise you ur grammar would have improved a lot..

thank you, i will try harder to get it right, but if you want to be quick, and get an idea down it is hard to remember ..,,,.

are you discuraging the last few people in participating the EU-Forum ?? Its boring enough with 3 - 4 people as it is .. So who you mean of the few participants ?? This is not a school examn either, for many of us - if only worried to write perfectly all the time in English, the effort would be so much that we would loose spontanity.. I wonder as this was a nice way to encourage people to participate in the Forum.. The emails you receive in your mailbox you can screen for whatever your personal likings are, but in coming over as judge of good English or American Language on an International Meeting Site might come to others a bit selfimposing or arrogant. just a thought !?!

See!! this is so much better already!! way to go wedward!!

im sorry i dont judge anyone never have never will i try very while im on the forums to participate and to encourage people to take part it good fun is it not