My answer is: they don’t care.

Add to that the fad of “textese” and it’s a recipe for questions full of dose for does, wot for what, whatevah for whatever, weather for whether (and vice versa), c for see, u for you, r for are. Then add to the above: idk, bff, et cetera and you have people who are NOT spelling correctly to begin with.

Call me anal, but good English, complete sentences, correct spelling and good grammar are necessary communication skills. If tests are not geared to check those things, if classes are dumbed-down, if teachers are lazy, if parents don’t check homework…look what we get.

Communication is not about perfect spelling. If we perfectly spell words that the other does not know, communication is lost – or at least hindered until dictionary definitions are deciphered.

If you can read my first sentence, I was successful in communicating with you. Do I really need to speel check? hehehe. I prefer people to PROOF-READ the content rather than be anal on the spelling. Dropping an “not” tends to change the meaning of a sentence.

if you think the answers and questions on this site are bad,

you should try reading the Tuscaloosa News