Anyone Else Generally Bad at spelling

[Sanctum]

Through out school i have always found that i was generally bad at spelling. Not because i didn't read a lot because i did but its like when i read a word i don't see the individual letter i just see the word. Anyone else like this.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Spelling and grammar are my greatest cognitive blind sports. I simply do the best I can. Haters still gonna hate.

 

[Jah]

Hatters gonna have Tea.

 

[snafupants]

Mei speling is impucable.

 

[P.H.]

My spelling and grammar aren't great, and it would probably be even worse if I weren't such a book worm. And I don't really care how you write stuff to be honest. As long as someone understands what I'm trying to say it's good enough.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Mei speling is impucable.

I think it iss bad that I did not notice the spelling errors at first.

 

[Vrecknidj]

With a username like mine...

 

[Dapper Dan]

Nope. I'm a great speller.

 

[Minuend]

I have a tendency to overlook minor details like a misplaced or missing letters.

Back to when I used to write a lot, my spelling was quite decent. Now I mainly write in English which is so-so.

 

[Words]

I'm actually pretty good, at least that's what I remember as a child in relation to other children. The issue never resurfaced, so I can't really confirm. As for "seeing just the word", I'm not sure. In reading, I look at a word and apply it in a universal context, which is why I get confused a lot but I'm not sure if this is the same issue.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I don't have any problem with spelling or grammar.



My neatness on the other hand...

 

[ObliviousGenius]

I have returned with a new internet connection!

I have always been great at spelling and grammar. I even won a 1st to 5th grade spelling bee when I was in 2nd grade way back when. If I write a word incorrectly I will immediately see the mistake I made and go back. Unlike common tradition, I don't "sound out" my words I just remember the spellings of each word I know. One would not need to "sound out" the word "the" but just remember its spelling. The key to being a good speller is remembering how certain words are spelled, the syllables, prefixes, suffixes, etc.

So no I'm not bad at spelling at all.

 

[MsAnthropy_Indefatigably]

I LOVE Spelling and Grammar! I would date an English Teacher just to learn some new words!

 

[Auburn]

Hatters gonna have Tea.

 

[Sanctum]

lol i feel weird now. Im good at grammar and Im a excellent writer, in any sense. But Im just not good with spelling and when i read i stumble sometimes because like i said i dont see the individual letters i look at the overall word and my brain kind of assumes what its going to be based on context clues. At first i thought it was an INTP thing, you know the "seeing the big picture" deal but now i see its my own........thing.

 

[cb.slide]

I think it iss bad that I did not notice the spelling errors at first.

wow...did not notice that either till I read your post. I'm also semi-sure I have dysgraphia so writing is a chore for me. Plus I detest pens with a passion. Pencils are all I can write with, to the annoyance of my parents and professors.

 

[Nibbler]

Through out school i have always found that i was generally bad at spelling. Not because i didn't read a lot because i did but its like when i read a word i don't see the individual letter i just see the word. Anyone else like this.

No, I was always excellent in the spelling and grammar areas of school. I like the correctness of words and how they are spelled.

However, as I'm getting older I am losing a few words. "How is that spelled again...?"

But I will always look it up and make sure it's correct. If I let anything go by spelled badly, my time was being rushed and the message was more important than accuracy.

 

[Nibbler]

lBut Im just not good with spelling and when i read i stumble sometimes because like i said i dont see the individual letters i look at the overall word and my brain kind of assumes what its going to be based on context clues. At first i thought it was an INTP thing, you know the "seeing the big picture" deal but now i see its my own........thing.

It depends on how old you are, too. About 2 decades ago, schools started teaching the whole-word method of reading. When I was coming up, we learned to read by syllables.

Older people tend to be better readers and spellers than those who learned whole-word.

 

[eagor]

my spelling and grammar are decent but i do have trouble with archaic styles of spelling things like armour, colour, and ending random words with e

 

[MichiganJFrog]

(Retard here.) Math is to me what spelling is to you.

 

[Grove]

Bad. Very, very bad speller. Phonics has never worked for me so it is hard for me to use dictionaries (like if I can't discern what the second or third letter should be, how the hell I can look it up?). I'll look up spellings in a thesaurus instead. It is actually really frustrating at times -- knowing what a word means, its synonyms & antonyms, but having no clue as how to write it down.

As for the question posed by the OP....I kinda understand what you are saying. For me the word is a picture that has an undefined number of associations attached to it. The word is broken in to subsets of meaning, (pre = before, sub = under) but rarely individual letters. I have to memorize the picture and build several associations before I know how to spell a word. I also have to hear a word said before I know how to pronounce it, otherwise a new word just looks like a jumble of letters to me -- like I don't know where to start with it. A friend of mine will text me weird spellings of words (a thought game for him), but I’ll ask him to repeat himself in plain English if he wants me to know what he said.

I joke with my parents that I don't actually know how to read, I've just memorized what the words look like and I know what they mean. They laugh, but I'm only half joking.

 

[Sanctum]

Bad. Very, very bad speller. Phonics has never worked for me so it is hard for me to use dictionaries (like if I can't discern what the second or third letter should be, how the hell I can look it up?). I'll look up spellings in a thesaurus instead. It is actually really frustrating at times -- knowing what a word means, its synonyms & antonyms, but having no clue as how to write it down.

As for the question posed by the OP....I kinda understand what you are saying. For me the word is a picture that has an undefined number of associations attached to it. The word is broken in to subsets of meaning, (pre = before, sub = under) but rarely individual letters. I have to memorize the picture and build several associations before I know how to spell a word. I also have to hear a word said before I know how to pronounce it, otherwise a new word just looks like a jumble of letters to me -- like I don't know where to start with it. A friend of mine will text me weird spellings of words (a thought game for him), but I’ll ask him to repeat himself in plain English if he wants me to know what he said.

I joke with my parents that I don't actually know how to read, I've just memorized what the words look like and I know what they mean. They laugh, but I'm only half joking.

This is me

 

[Grove]

See, not the only one.

 

[C.J_Finn]

I've always been pretty good with my spelling. Grammar is a little iffy sometimes if I'm not putting any care into it/I'm extremely tired (as I am now). English has always been my strong point, to be honest. I spend loads of time reading and writing stories and poems. I'm actually working on a short story right now. I'm also going to be going to school to study English.

Math has always been the subject that gives me problems though. I've had a basic understanding of algebra since I was in 7th and 8th grade, but in the past year or two I've gotten a bit better.

 

[snafupants]

Through out school i have always found that i was generally bad at spelling. Not because i didn't read a lot because i did but its like when i read a word i don't see the individual letter i just see the word. Anyone else like this.

I've noticed a recurring problem with intelligent black men.

They mispronounce words because they've seen them on paper but they have no peers to try them out on. That's pretty sad. I had a similar problem when I was nineteen.

English is a difficult language to learn anyway.

 

[thelithiumcat]

I am quite the stickler for spelling and grammar. I tend to revel in the use of the most specific and interesting words I can find. The one problem I do have is sometimes a spelling will occur to me and I won't remember which is the correct spelling out of the possible choices. As a result, my spelling is likely getting worse. Also sometimes I type too quickly and don't see the mistakes until later.

With regards to seeing the word as a picture, there's more truth to that than one might realise. Our brains fill in a lot of what we see, so sometimes if it's not clear or we expect to see one word when we see another, we see the word we expected until we look closer. It's like listening to someone speak: even if they're speaking a language you know, you can't recognise and understand what they're saying without subconsciously seeing the patterns in speech (see, I just spelled it 'speach; sometimes I spell phonetically and have to remind myself it's otherwise). I find this very interesting. You can't just listen and understand. With lyrics I can't understand what they're saying until I find my place in the patterns of language. Back to reading, there's a reason road signs are in lower-case. We look for the shape of the word, so putting it in block capitals makes the text instantly more illegible.

 

[Dapper Dan]

Back to reading, there's a reason road signs are in lower-case. We look for the shape of the word, so putting it in block capitals makes the text instantly more illegible.

The only road signs I can think of that have lowercase letters are the ones with city names. Other than that, it's pretty much all caps.

 

[Ptah]

I'm decent, I guess.
Math is my weakness. I'm practically innumerate.

 

[thelithiumcat]

The only road signs I can think of that have lowercase letters are the ones with city names. Other than that, it's pretty much all caps.

As far as I remember they're all lower-case where I live.

 

[speiss]

Not at all.

Though recently I have been having trouble with menial misspellings, overlooking the absence of a word here and there, but only very very recently for some odd reason. Perhaps I'm not paying attention, perhaps I'm typing too quickly, but sometimes it's disconcerting when compared to how meticulous I used to be.

But, if this means anything at all, I'm not an INTP ^_^

 

[mailbox167]

Good speller (92nd percentile or something)....not too great at math, on the other hand (1st percentile or something )

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Same as the post above -- I got gold stars for spelling in 6th grade. I'm terrible at math, though. I think I must have dyscalculia or something.

 

[Hadoblado]

I came out of high school with both terrible grammar and spelling, I have tried my best to remedy this in the years since, and perform above average in them both now.
I don't value the conventions at all (in fact I think them quite stupid), but I have come to base initial impressions of people on their ability to communicate, which is a habit I once found abhorrent.

 

[GYX_Kid]

I tend to just automatically remember what every word looks like

 

[skip]

I read voraciously - especially classic literature - so it comes naturally. I'm usually pretty careful about spelling and grammar, although not always.

 

[MissQuote]

I cannot remember being unable to read, I was taught at so young an age. I entered kindergarten with a third grade reading level, yet I was always terrible, and never even knew I was, when it came to spelling. It was only once found internet forums some years back and began communicating with people in writing on a near daily basis, or at least weekly basis, that I became aware of how deplorably atrocious my spelling and grammar were. Even then it took having it pointed out to me, and taking notice of how different half of my words were compared to everyone else's.

I suppose my grammar wasn't as terrible as my spelling, not quite, but still loathable and humiliating to think back on in many aspects. I think grammar is something that is more allowable to be bent, otherwise no one would ever have a unique voice in writing.

I've done my best to correct this problem as well as I am able and I still work on it.

I find the language to be achingly beautiful when used well and I am, honestly, offended by people who are thoughtlessly careless with the way they form their written words. I do not mean that everyone should strive to be a great poet and grammarian, just that every person should work to use the written word to the best of their own ability.

I truly consider the printing press to be one of the greatest achievements of humankind, which advanced the species and our ability to glean and spread knowledge perhaps more than any other invention. I would not be writing this if it were not for it, and no one would be reading it or any of the other.

And it awes me to hear a little child read aloud or to see them write. To think of the complexity of the human brain and the ideas it is able to understand and convey through the medium of the written word.

I can read and understand many many more words that I can speak properly.


My spelling is still pretty awful at times. I use a spell check and try to only automatically fix the mistakes when I am in a real hurry, otherwise I try to sort out where I went wrong on my own and when the little red squiggle disappears I do my best to commit the word to memory.

 

[The Gopher]

My personal spelling and grammar are really bad but I can spot someone elses mistake in an instant...

 

[pjoa09]

I screw up my spelling, freak out, scratch it, write it correctly on top, scratch it because it looks stupid, write the correct spelling on the side, look at the mess in disgust, and reluctantly continue assuring myself that whatever I wrote was crap anyways.