Grammar/spelling.

[MiltoniusPrime]

I know that you can't expect everyone on the internet to adhere to some level of typing quality, but for the love of some omni-present force...

FURRIES SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPELL "FURRY" AND "FURRIES".  IT ISN'T "FURY" OR "FURIES".  BASEBALL FANS CAN SPELL "BASEBALL", AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE COMPUTER-SAVVY NERDS COMPARED TO THEM.  ALSO, "FURSUITE".  WHAT THE HELL.

We may be a fandom built on tolerance, but we shouldn't tolerate such horrible spelling.  Done ranting for now.

[anoni]

I think the confusion comes from the term furosity...

Dunno what else to say to this

[MiltoniusPrime]

Do you mean "ferocity", as in "ferocious"?

[Vosur Aekira]

I've seen that term, but it may be a use of "fur curiosity" compressed.

[Puncia]

"Furry's", as in furry in plural, bothers me much more.

[Dirtcopter77]

Yes, I hate it when people use apostrophes incorrectly, whether it is leaving them out, or putting them into the wrong spot. Next time I see "All of us furry's." I am going to die.

[anoni]

When someone makes a spelling error I just point it out by being literal

"All us furry's are going to the bus"

Me: "How can you own an are?"

[✡]

I've always been a grammar nazi..it comes from me intending to study English. I cannot stand when people misspell words that they obviously knew the real spelling to 

[anoni]

Actually I owe a lot to some grammar nazi's

If it weren't for a guy called 2kanman I'd still be saying "your" instead of "you're" and "then" instead of "than"

[MiltoniusPrime]

nazi's
 

SHUNNN HIMMMM.

[anoni]

No.. but you see the grammar nazis they... they.. um... spell-check didn't like "nazis" and liked "nazi's"... um... wait... um...

EEP!

[MrRazot]

Don't get me wrong, I can be a Grammar Nazi myself.
i just don't care much for propernouns and some punctuation as much on the internet
 
but then we do have a spell check on this site and misspelling should be shunned
 
i do however notice that the online spellcheck doesn't work with "furries" which is point one.
though i do think furry and fursuit should be blatant enough considering furry is in the title of the site and fursuiting has a page to itself.
however any user of the English language should be able to construct a proper plural and therefor we should shun all those who do not know the spelling of those words.
done and done

[Puncia]

There are addons. I'm a slave to my Firefox addon but it lets you add words to the dictionary. I have an excuse since English is my second language and I think I'm doing all right.

[NJMike]

"Furry's", as in furry in plural, bothers me much more.

Ouch that burns :L

But yeah, I'm quite the grammar nazi myself, though I never get on anyone about it. My best friend IRL and a few other of my online-only best friends have atrocious, god-awful, eye-burning spelling. My IRL friend's being the worst.

[Midnight Madness]

I'd say the overall consensus would be that the internet is an entirely informal place, thus negating any true -need- for proper spelling, grammar and the like; under the assumption that the receiving person/persons will completely understand. So, instead of utilizing what they have been taught, many do not care to try and, instead, submit what seems to be gibberish.

It's really the "I want to be friends with everyone" effect that I see the most; so they treat everyone like they would treat their friends (sometimes), and type informally. There's also the "I really don't give a crap, I do what I want" idea, so they type how they like to; even if it is atrocious and pathetic. There's an unlimited slew of reasons why some sentences look like they've been chewed up and spit out.

Sadly, we'll have to tolerate it at one point. We do not have any control over anyone else or their habits/issues. All we can do is suggest they type cohesively, or pass on a friendly reminder; or just not talk with them.

* Sytex shrugs. "Just my two cents."