Incorrect spelling of player names
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Lilbaz
Just call me Baz
- Apr 1, 2005
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If you can spell dyslexic you're not dyslexic.
riggi
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8 years of after school help, got me to be able to spell it!
CowInAComa
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Lilbaz
Just call me Baz
- Apr 1, 2005
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8 years to learn how to spell a 2 letter word? No wonder the chinese are taking over.
nailsy
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- Jul 24, 2005
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Agree with this. Not everyone is good at spelling, or typing or are just not confident using computers. Do we really want those people to feel unwelcome on here?
ClintEastwould
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...And the most annoying of all
"The Tottenham Hotspurs"
"The Tottenham Hotspurs"
The Scarecrow
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There are several thousand words in the English language, but only twenty odd Spurs players. Bit of a difference, don't you think?
matthew.absurdum
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We should sign Ba or Ki
dvdhopeful
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Were people agreeing that the spelling of our players' names isn't that important or that those people who spell the names incorrectly should be made to feel unwelcome?
nailsy
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I agree.
gushayes11
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Ba is a good shout actually!
noggen
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Some of them are hard to spell, but in Eriksen´s case.. No! He´s danish, not bloody swedish. I´m norwegian by the waySome of them can be forgiven, like when we first signed Pavlyuchenko (yes I did Google that) I couldn't spell his name correctly so just called him Pav.
RichieS
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noggen
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It´s pretty easy. The name of Gylfi´s father is Sigurd. So he is Sigurd´s son. -> Gylfi Sigurdsson
tiger666
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Gylfi.
Oshi
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I was told a story about these two old dears at work when computers first came in... One of them moved the mouse the other clicked the button, fucking desperate stuff.
davidmatzdorf
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Does my head in. Every time.
I have to back off, though. I have eidetic spelling: when I learn a new word, the order of the letters is just part of learning the word and I never spell it wrong, ever. I don't understand how people can chronically get words and names wrong. Isn't the way the letters are ordered intrinsic to the word? If the letters are in a different order, it must be a different word.
It's taken me decades to appreciate that not everyone is like that and, frankly, a lot of me still just wants to slap people who misspell words (especially people who spell the same name two different ways in the same post, I mean, WTF?).
It's very hard for people to whom spelling comes easily to accept that people who chronically misspell words aren't just being fucking lazy. But I guess they aren't. I think. Most of the time. Well. Sometimes, anyway...
Seriously. I really don't get it. I've just had to accept that people are different. Gritted teeth.
I have to back off, though. I have eidetic spelling: when I learn a new word, the order of the letters is just part of learning the word and I never spell it wrong, ever. I don't understand how people can chronically get words and names wrong. Isn't the way the letters are ordered intrinsic to the word? If the letters are in a different order, it must be a different word.
It's taken me decades to appreciate that not everyone is like that and, frankly, a lot of me still just wants to slap people who misspell words (especially people who spell the same name two different ways in the same post, I mean, WTF?).
It's very hard for people to whom spelling comes easily to accept that people who chronically misspell words aren't just being fucking lazy. But I guess they aren't. I think. Most of the time. Well. Sometimes, anyway...
Seriously. I really don't get it. I've just had to accept that people are different. Gritted teeth.
davidmatzdorf
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If you know you're dyslexic, then you should have the courtesy to use spell-check. No excuse.
